The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-03 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

'Y'S SECOND GREEK DELECTUS.
LONDON, 1828.
Rev. F. Valpy is a worthy son of the
Master of Reading School ; a scholar
•arious services in the cause of education
litled him to rank among the very fore-
lenefactors of his age. His Latin and
Grammars, which impart information in
plest and most satisfactory manner, unen-
;'ed by the technical absurdities and ob-
dogmas of the grammars used at Eton, are
adapted to the capacities of those for
use they are intended, while in his Greek
tar the more mature scholar will find hints
on the subject of the character and
of the sweet dialects of Athens and
argue a mind richly stored with the
Greece and Rome.
or of the present little Elementary
ie nature of which is neatly explained
and pertinent preface,—has like his
every justice to his task. His selec-
le Greek poets, historians, and philoso-
aracterized by a severe and correct taste,
ides assisted and rendered accessible
test capacity, by the two-fold advantage
)ry notes, and a' copious index. On
Aily over these selections, we are
find among them the choicest beau-
Greek writers, such, for instance, as
description of the death of Udipus,
Lodes alone could have narrated, and
off' Salamis, which of itself is fully
embalm the memory of .iEschylus.
too—the pleasant good-humoured
,mincer Herodotus—is pressed into
nor is the temperate eloquence of
'ctrgotten: On the whole, we have
with an elementary work, which so
tends the useful with the ornamental, and
;5 knowledge, while it refines and invigo-
:he judgment.

WARDS' BOTANICAL REGISTER—No. X.
,there are considerable recommendations in

413 Periodical—recommendations which have
Hi to become generally known to render it
!4lerally popular. It combines, in an eminent
qt
eke, ornament and practical utility ; as a
of its merits, and by no means the best,
the briefest, and therefore the most suited
our 'Columns, we give the following
etyfine figure of " Lobelia longiflora," or Long-flowered
tC"flia, from the splendid collection of the Duke of Nor-
tittittiberland at Sion House. It is an annual, flowering in
pY and August, seldom exceeding a foot in length, and is
:t'f the most venomous of all known plants. In its
Gcountry (the West India Islands) it is said to prove
itl:1 to horses which eat it, swelling them till they burst ;
ktnee the Spaniards call it ' Rebenta cavallos.' Taken
til:ballY. it acts as a violent cathartic, the effects of which
qetnedy can assuage, and which ends in death.—" Cana-
Bonariensis," or Buenos Ayres Canavalia, a lovely
4'ing plant, with numerous pendant clusters of blood-
blossoms, continuing in flower during most of the
months, and propagated by cuttings. Contributed
IC the Hon. and Rev. William Herbert. " Lupinus
calls," or Shore Lupine, a hardy perennial, flowering
June to October. Native of the north-western parts
ktnerica. The natives of the river Columbia use it as
~,iater food: its roots, after a preparation (which had we
ir we would fiin extract), forms the liquorice spoken of
,Lewis and Clarke, and by the Navigators who have
ii;Red the North-west Coast of America. It is propagated
cuttings, division of the roots, and by seed.
k,"lBa, id by Commentators to have been derived from lupus, a
' because it devours the ground!