The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-02 00:00:00

By the Rev. E. VALPY, B.D.

Two plates are added, one illustrative of the Travels of
the Apostles, and the other a Map of Judea, and a Plan
of the City and Temple of Jerusalem.
4.* To this Third Edition have been added Parallel
References, on the plan of Bishop Lloyd's little volume.
This work is intended for Students in Divinity, as well
as the Library.
" After a minute examination, the author of the pre-
sent manual considers this Edition of the Greek Testa-
ment as the most valuable of any of that has yet been pub-
lished with critical and philosophical apparatus ; especially
for students who wish to purchase only one Edition of
the Greek Testament."—Horne's Introduction to the Bible.
Also, second Edition, in One thick Vol. Bvo. 21s.

GREEK SEPTUAGINT, with the APOCRYPHA.
Edited by A. J. Valpy, from the Oxford Edition of Bos
and Holmes.

This Edition is handsomely printed in One thick Vol.
Svo. hot-pressed. For use in Churches and Chapels as
well as the Library.
" This elegantly-executed Volume is very correctly
printed, and (which cannot but recommend it to students
in preference to the incorrect Cambridge and Amsterdam
reprints of the Vatican Text) its price is so reasonable as
to place it within the reach of almost every one."—llorne's
Introduction to the Bible.

The Septuagint and Testament may be had bound
in Four Volumes.

Printed by A. J. Valpy, and sold by all Booksellers.

On the Ist of April will commence, in llonthly Numbers,
price ss. 6d.
EPITOME OF ENGLISH LITERA-
TURE ; or, a Concentration of the Matter of
STANDARD ENGLISH AUTHORS, on a plan entirely
new ; with Portraits, Biographical Sketches, &e.
Edited and printed under the superintendance of A. J.
Valpy, M.A., formerly Fellow of Pembroke College,
Oxford.

Were all books reduced to their quintessence, many a
bulky author would make his appearance in a pamphlet;
there would be scarce such a thing as a folio ; and the
works of an age would be contained on a few shelves."—
Addison.

Much as we owe to the invention of printing, its good
is not entirely without alloy. From the facilities it pre-
sents to the rapid march of mind, books are multiplied as
if by magic; but at the same time the sterling works of
each successive age are thus, from the want of leisure to
read them, rapidly displaced by literature of a lighter cast,
whose aim it is " to play round the heart, but never reach
the head."
To divert in part the interest felt for such productions,
it is intended to publish, in a concentrated form, a Series
of Standard English Authors ; of whose works the present
generation know little, and the rising youth must know
less; although the names, at least, of such writ.rs are
" famili rr iu our mouths as household words," and the
information they convey, suited to all times, place. and
conditions of men, is clothed in language, which has of ne-
cessity remained stationary, whilst modes of thinking and
writing have insensibly changed.
But although powerful in mind and rich in matter are
the writers of England's proudest per'od, still they are all
deficient in the one thing needful—brevity ; and thus the
very points on which they plumed themselves in their
own days, have led to their present partial neglect. Ever
more afraid of saying too little than too much, they have
imposed on posterity the task of pruning luxuriances and
removing blemishes, by the rejection of what is super-
fluous in matter and quaint in style ; but not without the
double advantage on our part of retaining all that is usefel,
and of imparting a new interest to it by the system of
concentration.
Of the value of such a principle the best proof is given
by the unimitated and inimitable authors of Greece and
Rome. Varied as their works are in subject and style,
they all unite in the leading point, to give the maximum
of information in the minimum of space, and have thus
been able, independent of their intrinsic value, to outlive
not only the darker ages, but to throw a lustre even on
more enlightened times.
From the limits of a prospectus, it is impossible to state
the precise nature of the plan intended to be adopted ; suf.
fice it to observe that in history no facts, and in philo-
sophy yo reasoning, will be (milted or distorted, so as to
render a reference to the original author requisite; and
thus the youth especially of both sexes may become per.
fectly acquainted with authors repulsive from their bulk
alone, at a comparatively little cost of time as well as price.
The series will be confined to the popular productions of
writers in prose, and the following authors will be first
selected:—
HISTORICAL—BURNET, CLARENDON, GIB-
BON, HUME, ROLLIN, ROBERTSON.
PHILOSOPHICAL—BACON, LOCKE, PALEY.
MISCELLANEOUS—ADDISON, GOLDSMITH,
JOHNSON, MILTON, SWIFT.
The work will be printed in small Svo. after the
manner of Sir Walter Scott's novels, in monthly volumes,
averaging 350 pages of handsome letter-press, price ss. 6d.;
and any author may be purchased separately at a small ad_
vance of price.
No. I. PALEY'S MORAL PHILOSOPHY, with a
portrait.
No. H. PALEY'S EVIDENCE of CHRISTIANITY;
and LOCKE on the HUMAN UNDERSTANDING,
with a portrait.
The Historical and Miscellaneous Series will be ready
for publication in the spring, commencing with Claren-
Idon, Gibbon, Rollin, Addison, Johnson, &C.
Orders for this work may be given to all Booksellers in
the United Kingdora.