WALTON AND MABERLY'S CATALOGUE. 



GUESSES AT TRUTH. By Two Brothers. Cheaper Edition. 

 2 Vols. foolscap 8vo. 10s. cloth lettered. 



"I here present you with a few suggestions, the fruits, alas! of much idleness. 

 Such of them as are distiuguisht by some capital letter, I have borrowed from my 

 acuter friends. My own are little more than glimmerings, I had almost said dreams, 

 of thought : not a word in them is to be taken on trust. 



" If then I am addressing one of that numerous class, who read to be told what to 

 think, let me advise you to meddle with the book no further. You wish to buy a 

 house ready furnisht : do not come to look for it in a stone -quarry. But if you 

 are building up your opinions for yourself, and only want to be provided with 

 materials, you may meet with many things in these pages to suit you. Do not 

 despise them for want of name and show. Remember what the old author says, 

 that 'even to such a one as I am, an idiota or common person, no great things, 

 melancholizing in woods and quiet places by rivers, the Goddess herself Truth has 

 oftentimes appeared." 



" Reader, if you weigh me at all. weigh me patiently ; judge me candidly ; and may 

 you find half the satisfaction in examining my Guesses, that I have myself had in 

 making them." To Ike Reader. 



A HISTORY OF ROME, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES 



TO THE DEATH OF COMMODUS, A.D. 192. By Dr. L. SCHMITZ, 

 F.R.S.E., Rector of the High School of Edinburgh, Editor of " Niebuhr's 

 Lectures." Sixth Edition. Illustrated by One Hundred Engravings on 

 Wood. 12mo. 7s. U. cloth. 



The immense progress made in investigating Roman history and antiquities within 

 the last thirty or forty years, having materially altered the whole complexion of that 

 study, has rendered indispensable a new manual, for the use of schools, removing the 

 old errors and misconceptions which have long since been exposed and exploded by 

 scholars. This compendium is designed to supply the want, by condensing and 

 selecting out of a voluminous mass of detail, that which is necessary to give rather a 

 vivid picture of the leading epochs of the history, than a minute narrative of the 

 particulars recorded in the authorities. The author has availed himself of all the 

 important works on the whole Roman history, or portions of it, which have appeared 

 since Niebuhr gave a new life and new impulse to the subject. The period embraced 

 by the work is from the earliest times to the death of Cornmodus, when the moral 

 degradation of the empire reached its utmost limit. A copious table of chronology and 

 indexes are added. The present edition is illustrated by very numerous engravings on 

 wood of public buildings, statuary, and other remains of antiquity. 



A HISTORY OF GREECE, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES 



TO THE ROMAN CONQUEST. With Supplementary Chapters on the 

 History of Literature and Art. By WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D. New Edi- 

 tion. Illustrated by One Hundred Engravings on Wood. Large 12rno. 

 7*. 6d. cloth. 



This work, intended principally for schools, diners from the old school histories of 

 Greece in supplying the student, instead of a dry detail of events frequently unim- 

 portant, with a vivid picture of the main facts of Grecian history, and of the leading 

 characteristics of the political institutions, literature and art, of that people. 



The author has derived his materials from the modern researches of the most 

 eminent of the German and English scholars who have made the history, geography, 

 and polities of ancient Greece the subject of their investigations. He aims at giving a 

 clear and accurate account of the most recent results of antiquarian scholarship, 

 narrating at length the more important events, and bringing out prominently the 

 characters -and lives of the great men of the Greek states. 



The history of literature and the arts is recorded at considerable length ; so that the 

 student may be made acquainted not only with the revolutions of communities, but 

 with what is of much more intrinsic importance the history of the production of the 

 imperishable remains of ancient literary and artistic taste. 



Numerous pictorial illustrations are interspersed, consisting of plans of countries, 

 cities, and battles : views of public buildings ; and engravings of ancient sculptures 

 and other authentic remains of antiquity. 



