NOW PUBLISHING. 
ANCIENT CLASSICS 
FOR 
EN Gy ps He It EAD ERS 
BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. 
EDITED BY 
Rev. W. LUCAS COLLINS, M.A. 
Author of ‘ Etoniana,’ ‘The Public Schools,’ &c. 
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 
‘We gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity to recommend the 
other volumes of this useful series, most of which are executed with dis- 
crimination and ability.”—Quarterly Review. 
“© These Ancient Classics have, without an exception, a twofold value. 
They are rich in literary interest, and they are rich in social and histori- 
cal interest. We not only have a faithful presentation of the stamp and 
quality of the literature which.the master-minds of the classical world 
have bequeathed to the modern world, but we have a series of admir- 
ably vivid and graphic pictures of what life at Athens and Rome was. 
We are not merely taken back over a space of twenty centuries, and 
placed immediately under the shadow of the Acropolis, or in the very 
heart of the Forum, but we are at once brought behind the scenes of the 
old Roman and Athenian existence. As we see how the heroes of this 
‘new world which is the old’ plotted, intrigued, and planned; how 
private ambition and political partisanship were dominant and active 
motives then as they are now; how the passions and the prejudices 
which reign supreme now reigned supreme then; above all, as we dis- 
cover how completely many of what we may have been accustomed to 
consider our most essentially modern thoughts and sayings have been 
anticipated by the poets and orators, the philosophers and historians, 
who drank their inspiration by the banks of Ilissus or on the plains of 
Tiber, we are prompted to ask whether the advance of some twenty cen- 
turies has worked any great change in humanity, and whether, substi- 
tuting the coat for the toga, the park for the Campus Martius, the 
Houses of Parliament for the Forum, Cicero might not have been a 
public man in London as well as an orator in Rome?”—AMorning 
Advertiser. 
“‘Tt is difficult to estimate too highly the value of such a series as this 
in giving ‘English readers’ an insight, exact as far as it goes, into those 
olden times which are so remote and yet to many of us so close. It is 
in no wise to be looked upon as a rival to the translations which have 
at no time been brought forth in greater abundance or in greater excel- 
lence than in our own day. On the contrary, we should hope that 
these little volumes would be in many cases but a kind of stepping-stone 
to the larger works, and would lead many who otherwise would have 
remained in ignorance of them to turn to the versions of Conington, 
Worsley, Derby, or Lytton. In any case a reader would come with 
far greater knowledge, and therefore with far greater enjoyment, to the 
complete translation, who had first had the ground broken for him by 
one of these volumes,”—Saturday Review, Fan. 18. 
