WALTON AND MABERLY'S CATALOGUE. 



double columns, renders its stores of information available for immediate consultation 

 by the scholar. 



These lectures may be regarded as an almost indispensable Introduction and Com- 

 panion to Classical History ; and, as an Encyclopaedia of Ancient Geography, specially 

 adapted to the purposes of the Ethnological Antiquarian. 



THE ODES OF HORACE, Translated into Un-rhymed Metres, 

 with Introduction and Notes. By FRANCIS AV. NEWMAN, Professor of 

 Latin in University College, London. Crown 8vo. 5s. cloth. 



This is a translation of the Odes of Horace into metrical lines, not rhymed, nor 

 reduced to ordinary English measures ; but so constructed as to represent, in the 

 author's judgment, the spirit and cadence of Latin Song. Each species of Horatian 

 metre is rendered into a distinct kind of English stanza, which is its uniform repre- 

 sentative in this volume ; but the original Latin metres are not imitated. 



The translation is intended to give the English reader, unacquainted with ancient 

 languages and literature, an idea of the nature of Horatian poetry ; and this object is 

 further promoted by very numerous notes relating to geography, history, mythology ; 

 in short, to whatever is subsidiary to a full understanding of the men and times which 

 form the subjects of the Odes. The more literary student will also find here much 

 information respecting Horace's personal history, the true succession of his composi- 

 tions, and the nature of his versification. While the translator professes to write for 

 the unlearned English reader, he expects to be judged by classical scholars in respect 

 to correctness and fidelity. 



All passages of objectionable morality are left unti-anslated. 



THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. By Dr. R. G. Latham, F.R.S. 



Fourth Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. II. 8s. cloth. 



In this work, the History of the English Language is traced from its remote origin, 

 through its successive changes and periods, to its present state. The nature of its 

 connection with all the languages, which either form its basis or have been in any 

 degree incorporated with it, is minutely detailed : and this comparison of languages 

 is made available in determining the causes of its various peculiarities, whether of 

 isolated words or forms of construction ; thus not only supplying the student with a 

 clue to extensive researches in philology, but suggesting the true principles of deriva- 

 tion and of general grammatical criticism. This historical portion of the work makes 

 the reader acquainted with the influence exercised in the modification of the Anglo- 

 Saxon by the aboriginal Celtic of Britain, and by the three distinct graftings of the 

 Roman language on the Gothic stock. The history is everywhere illustrated by 

 extracts from primitive books, records, and inscriptions ; by analogies drawn from the 

 Sanskrit and classical languages, and from the Gothic, Celtic, and Sclavonic dialects of 

 ancient and modern Europe ; and by comparative catalogues of derivations, affinities, 

 and provincialisms. 



After the necessary preliminaries, logical, phonetic, and etymological, the student 

 is introduced to the inflections, in which the old, middle, and present forms are shewn 

 synoptically, and apparent anomalies reduced to system by an exposition of the mode 

 in which they have arisen. The object of the author is, to exhibit the language 

 restored to its logical purity and regularity ; to shew the way in which inflections and 

 forms of expression were used of old, and thus to point out the way in which they 

 ought now to be interpreted; and in the etymological as well as the syntactical por- 

 tions of the work, by disclosing the reasons which lie at the bottom of tke rules to 

 treat the grammar of the English language as a science rather than as an art. 



In the syntax will be found researches on the chief difficulties of construction, such 

 as the use of the subjunctive mood ; the nature of the aorist, emphatic, and historic 

 tenses ; the succession of moods and tenses ; and the remarkable contrariety in the 

 employment of the auxiliaries shall and will in the first person, and in the second and 

 third. On the latter subject, Wallis's Canon and Hare's ingenious hypothesis of the 

 usus ethicus of the anomaly are discussed. 



The prosody supplies a full account of English metrical systems ; and an appendix 

 contains a praxis for the purpose of parsing and translation in the different languages 

 of the Gothic Stock. 



