FAMILY CLASSICAL LIBRARY. 



The Publishers have much pleasure in recording 

 the following testimonials in recommendation of the 

 Family Classical Libraiy. 



"Mr. Valpy lias projected a Family Classical Library. The idea is 

 excellent, and the work cannot fail to be acceptable to youth of both sexes, 

 as well as to a large portion of the reading community, who have not had 

 the benefit of a learned education." — Geutlejnan''s Magazine, Dec. 1829. 



" We have here the commencement of another undertaking for the more 

 general distribution of knowledge, and one which, if as well conducted 

 as we may expect, bids fair to occupy an enlarged station in our imme- 

 diate literature. The volume before us is a specimen well calculated to 

 recommend what are to follow. Leland's Demosthenes is an excellent 

 work."' — Lit. Gazette. 



" This work will be received with great gratification by every man who 

 knows the value of classical knowledge. All that we call purity of taste, 

 vigour of style, and force of thought, has either been taught to the modern 

 world by the study of the classics, or has been guided and restrained by 

 those illustrious models. To extend the knowledge of such works is to 

 do a public service." — Court Journal. 



" The Family Classical Library is another of those cheap, useful, and 

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" The p'esent era seems destined to be honourably distinguished in 

 lii^rary history by the high character of the works to which it is succes- 

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 they boast substantial worth which can never be disregarded; they put 

 forth a claim to permanent estimation. The Family Classical Library is 

 a noble undertaking, which the name of the editor assures us will be exe-i 

 cuted in a style worthy of the great originals." — Morning Post. 



" This is a very promismg speculation ; and as the taste of the day runs 

 just now very strongly in favour of such Miscellanies, we doubt not it 

 will meet with proportionate success. It needs no adventitious aid, how- 

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" This work, puhlished at a low price, is beautifully got up. Though 

 to profess to be content with translations of the Classics has been de- 

 nounced as ' the thin disguise of indolence,' there are thousands who 

 have no leisiwe for studying the dead languages, who would yet like to 

 know what was thought and said by the sages and poets of antiquity. 

 To them this work will be a treasure." — Sunday Times. 



" This design, which is to communicate a knowledge of the most 

 esteemed authors of Greece and Rome, by the most approved translations, 

 to those from whom their treasures, without such assistance, would be 

 hidden, must surely be approved by every friend of literature, by every 

 lover of mankind. We shall only say of the first volume, that as the 

 execution well accords with the design, it must command general appro- 

 bation." — The Observer. 



" We see no reason why this work should not find its way into the 

 boudoir of the lady, as well as into the library of the learned. It is cheap, 

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 of persons of both sexes." — Weekly Fjee Press. 



