EURIPIDES (480-406 B. C.). By William Bodham Donne. 1872. ... Euripides, the third of the three great Tragic Poets of Greece, was born at Salamis, and met his death by being torn to pieces (it is said) by a pack of hounds. He wrote some seventy or eighty tragedies, of which eighteen are still extant.

Those fully discussed by Mr. Donne are, Alcestis: Medea: Iphigenia in Aulis: and Iphigenia at Tauri: The Bacchanals (a posthumous work): Ion: Hippolytus, and The Cyclops. One Chapter is devoted to The Phoenician Woman: The Suppliants: The Children of Hercules: and The Phrenzy of Hercules: and another to "The Tale of “Troy” dramas, of which (including one or two of those already mentioned) ten are

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GREEK Anthology, The. By Lord Neaves. 1874.

The revived interest in the Collections of Epigrams and small poems known as the Greek 66 Anthology," literally A Collection of Flowers, is largely due to Christopher North (Professor Wilson), who with his friends, following the example of Sir Thomas More, Erasmus, Hugo Grotius, and Thomas Gray, devoted much of their scholarship and powers of versification to giving in Blackwood's Magazine good translations of the "Greek Epigram." Lord Neaves treats of them under the seven heads of Dedicatory: Sepulchral: Amatory: Didactic: Literary and Artistic: Witty and Satirical: Narrative and Miscellaneous. The entire Anthology consists of about 4500 pieces by upwards of 300 writers.

HERODOTUS (circa 484-424 B. C.). By George C. Swayne. 1870.

... The Author has not followed the divisions of the Greek Historian Herodotus into nine books (named after the Muses), but has rearranged the statements so as to obtain a more chronologically consecutive history. Herodotus was born at Halicarnassus, a Dorian colony in Caria, and is said to have died at Thurium in Italy. His History comprises the War between the Greeks and Persians in a period of 68 years from the time of Cyrus the Great to the triumph of the Greeks in 478 B. C.

HESIOD (circa 800 B. C.) and THEOGNIS (540-500 B. C.). By the Rev. James Davies.

1873.

... The Translator gives all the particulars which can be gathered of Hesiod, a Greek Poet born at Ascra in Boeotia, with extracts from and the outline of his pastoral "Works “and Days,” which gave the idea of the "Georgics" to Virgil, his "Theogony," the most ancient composition extant on the subject of Greek mythology, and the "Shield of “Hercules,” which seems to be a fragment or collection of fragments, and was probably the work of various Authors.

The works of Theognis, a native of Megara, were principally Elegies and didactic poems, of which fragments only are extant. He was a Noble and died in exile.

HOMER (circa 1000 B. C.). The Iliad. By the Rev. W. Lucas Collins.

1871.

The life and writings of Homer are given in outline.

HOMER: The Odyssey. By the Rev. W. Lucas Collins. 1870. ... The Editor accepts the Odyssey as being a Poem constructed by one writer and believes that both the Iliad and the Odyssey were written by Homer.

HORACE (65-8 B. C.). By Theodore Martin. 1870.

... The Translations taken from Mr. Conington's version are marked with his initials -those not so marked are by Mr. Martin.

JUVENAL (circa 40-125 A. D.). By Edward Walford. 1872.

.. Little is known of the life of this celebrated satirical Latin Poet. He is believed to have been born in Aquinum, a Volscian town, but he published nothing till he had passed the age of 60, and he is believed to have died in Egypt “in an honourable exile "as Prefect of a Legion." Sixteen of his Satires are extant.

LUCIAN (circa 120-220 A. D.). By the Rev. W. Lucas Collins.

1873.

... Lucian, an exceedingly voluminous and very witty Greek satirist, was born at Samosata on the Euphrates, and is said to have died "a hundred years old." As he was pensioned at the age of seventy and allowed to perform his duties by deputy he seems to have enjoyed the proverbial long life of a "pensioner."

Mr. Collins classifies his writings and gives a general view of them under the headings of Lucian and the Pagan Olympus: Dialogues of the Dead: Lucian and the Philosophers: Satires on Society: Lucian as a Romance Writer: and Lucian and Christianity. The attitude of Lucian towards Christianity has been much debated: Mr. Collins quotes his letter as to Peregrinus describing the discipline and practice of the early Christians (pp. 168-171).

PLATO (430-347 B. C.). By Clifton W. Collins. 1874.

... Mr. Collins groups the "Dialogues of Plato" according to their subjects or arguments, and quotes mainly from Professor Jowett's translation. Plato was born at Athens or in the Island of Ægina and died at Athens.

PLAUTUS (254 or 224-184 B. C.) and TERENCE (195-159 or 158 B. C.). By the Rev. W. Lucas Collins. 1873.

·.· Plautus, a Latin comic Poet, was born at Sarsina in Umbria some say 254, others 224 B. C. According to Cicero, he died in 184 B. C., and but little is known of his history. Twenty of his Plays are extant.

Ten of these are outlined by Mr. Collins, viz: The Three Silver Pieces (Trinummus): The Braggadocio: The Haunted House (Mostellaria): The Shipwreck (Rudens): The Captives: The two Menæchmi: Amphitryon: The Pot of Gold (Aulularia): The Trickster (Pseudolus): and The Young Carthaginian (Pœnulus): Seven are but cursorily noticed, viz: Stichus: Casina: Curculio: The Ass-Dealer (Asinaria): The Churl (Truculentus): The Merchant : and The Persian : and three, Bacchides: Cistellaria: and Epidicus, are unnoticed.

Terence was another Roman Comic Poet, and besides his six original Comedies which are extant he translated, it is said, 108 of Menander's Comedies.

Mr. Collins gives the outlines of The Maid of Andros (his first Work Andria): The Mother-in-law: The Self-Tormentor (Heauton-timorumenos): The Ethiopian Slave: Phormio and The Brothers (Adelphi).

In Chapter 2 (pp. 6–29) the writer gives a very interesting account of Menander, born at Athens B. C. 342, to whom Terence was very largely indebted for plots. None of his dramas have been preserved except in the fragments to be found in various Greek writers.

PLINY (62-circa 107 A. D.). PLINY'S LETTERS. By the Rev. Alfred Church and Rev. W. J. Brodribb. 1872.

... The work is "not arranged in a regular biographical form," and the outline of his life is given (chronologically) in an "Introductory Note" following the "Contents." Pliny the younger was born at Como on Lake Como and died later than A. D. 107, but the exact date is not known.

His Letters in ten Books "after those of Cicero are perhaps the most precious relics "of Roman epistolary correspondence that have come down to us." He wrote to Trajan a letter bearing testimony to the good morality of the Christians and requesting directions as to their treatment.

SOPHOCLES (495-405 B. C.). By Clifton W. Collins. 1871. ...Sophocles, the second of the three great Tragic Poets of Greece, was born at Colonus, near Athens, during his life having been a General. He composed "more "than a hundred tragedies." Sophocles, as he phrased it, chose to put away the "pomp of Æschylus along with his childish things,' and is regarded as having excelled "all the dramatists of Greece."

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Only seven of his Tragedies are extant-Edipus the King: (Edipus at Colonus: Antigone: The Death of Ajax: The Maidens of Trachis: Philoctetes: and Electra.

The Edipus, though not the most popular, must always stand as the most tragic of tragedies. The man "shall murder his father and marry his mother against his will" is as horrible and concise a plot as human fancy can conceive.

TACITUS (55-after 116 A. D.). By William Bodham Donne. 1873.

... Mr. Donne outlines Tacitus's "Life of Agricola," and the "Germany" which was probably intended as an episodical chapter in his History; and he devotes two Chapters to the "Annals," the most celebrated of the works of Tacitus. It was in 16 books, recording the Roman History from the death of Augustus, A. D. 14, to the death of Nero, A. D. 68. Books 7, 8, 9, 10, and parts of three others (5, 11, and 16) are lost, taking away the period of Caligula, and the first five years of Claudius.

He accepts" The Dialogue on the Orators" as the production of Tacitus and devotes a Chapter to its description.

After the period of Nero, Mr. Donne proceeds with the "History," originally in 14 books and covering from 68 A. D., the arrival of Galba in Rome, to 96 A. D., the death of Domitian, of which only the first five books are extant.

VIRGIL (70-19 B. C.). By the Rev. W. Lucas Collins. 1870.

... This volume was to have been undertaken by Mr. Conington, but his death unfortunately intervened.

Virgil was born near Mantua and died at Brundusium while on a homeward voyage. This Volume gives a Life of the Poet and the outlines (with many extracts) of the Eclogues-the Georgics-and the Æneid.

The great majority of the Extracts from the Æneid are from Mr. Conington's magnificent translation.

XENOPHON (445-circa 355 B. C.). By Sir Alexander Grant. 1871.

... The writer deals principally with the "Anabasis" of this great Athenian Historian and General and goes into full particulars of the retreat of the 10,000 from the Tigris to the Black Sea. A List of Xenophon's fourteen, at least, other works is given (p. 84), with tolerably full particulars of the "Recollections of Socrates" and the "Cy"ropædeia or Education of Cyrus" and a good outline of his minor works.

A Map of the Route of the 10,000 closes the volume.

Blades, William.-[Caxton.] BIOGRAPHY, THE, and Typography [275] of William Caxton, England's First Printer. London: Trübner & Co. 1877. 8vo. Half morocco, top edges gilt. Index, 2 col. pp. 371-383.

... This is a very careful and minute description of Caxton's books, types, and life. The newest fact recorded concerning Caxton is that he was married and left behind him a married daughter. Of the 99 works enumerated by Mr. Blades "no less than "38 are known to us by single copies or by fragments only." The British Museum has 81 Caxtons, of which 25 are duplicates, leaving that Institution in possession of 56 works, of which however three are mere fragments. Lord Spencer's Library "contains 57 separate works."

Dibdin (in 1815) gave a full description of 48 Caxtons in Earl Spencer's Library in his Bibliotheca Spenceriana, Vol. IV. pp. 173-350; and many additional particulars on the books of Caxton will also be found in the same writer's Typographical Antiquities, 1809, in which are described 62 "Books printed by Caxton": For List see Dib: Typ: Ant: Vol. I. p. cxxxv., and for Account of "books printed by Caxton" see same volume, pp. 1-362.

This volume contains "the essence of the two volumes demy 4to on the same subject "by the same author published in 1863 and now out of print."

Blades, William.-ENEMIES, THE, of Books. [276] London: Trübner & Co. 1881.

Third Edition.

8vo.

Half morocco,

top edges gilt. 7 Illust. a. c.

... This was originally published in "The Printers' Register" August to October, 1879. The Plates are intended to show some of the various processes by which books can be illustrated.

Blades, William.-How To TELL a Caxton, with some hints [277] where and how the same might be found. London: Henry Sotheran & Co. 1870. 18mo. Half morocco, top edges gilt.

... This brochure includes a list of works attributed to the press of William Caxton which had been discovered up to the date of publication, and 16 plates showing his various types.

Caxton (1412-1491) used 24 presses and employed about 100 workmen. He published no fewer than 5000 closely printed folio pages, some from the stock of his own vernacular language, but mainly translations from the French, in which he was a very industrious worker. He published two French, seven Latin, and fifty-four English Books, besides second and third Editions, and some books of which only fragments are extant.

At what date he brought his press to England and set it up at Westminster is disputed. It was probably between 1471 and 1477-at least his translation from the French of the Moral Treatise "The Game and the Playe of the Chesse" was "fyn"ysshid” March 31, 1474, but the “tradition that this was printed in England may not "be correct."

Blaikie, William.-SOUND BODIES for Our Boys and Girls. [278] Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers.

With

1884.

... A series of Lessons for developing each muscle and procuring for every boy and girl a sound body.

Blaine, James Gillespie (1830- ). TWENTY YEARS of Con[279] gress: from Lincoln to Garfield. With a review of the events which led to the political revolution of 1860. (With Portraits.) Norwich, Conn.: Henry Bill Publishing Company. 1884-6. 2 vols. royal 8vo. Half green morocco, top edges gilt. Illustrations each vol. a. c. Index 3 col. Vol. II. 713-724.

... At the end of Vol. I. is a Map showing the area of the Country when its Independence was acknowledged by Great Britain, together with the subsequent acquisitions of territory.

The work contains 57 steel portraits, 5 whole-page, and the remainder seven or five to a page.

Blake, William P.-PARIS UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION, 1867, Reports of. See Anonymous.

Blanc, Charles.-MEMOIR of Grandville. See Grandville, J. J.