Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-01-18
LITERARY NOTICE.

A CoPIoUs AND CRITICAL LATIN ENGLISH LEXICON,
From the German of FnEUsn, uih additions and Coree-
tions from the Lercons Of Gesner Faccolat, Shser, DC.
By E. 8. ANDREWS, ID. Harper 4 Brothers, 1851.
goody book and curiousy imprinted We hail The ap.
pearance in English dress. Of the celebrated Lexicon Of
Dr. Freund and congratulate the youthful student the
oyment of those facilities and advantages denied in
aborious trocinum It s decidedly, the best dictionary
Of the Latin language we have yet seen.
The work branches out into parts, Elements the
Grammatical the genealogical, the Exegetica the Synony
nous, the Chronological the Rhetorical, and the Statistical
Elements To each Of these classes ample justice is done by
the deep research Of the Lexicogapher OF the curious ar
cles in the grammatical clement will just cite caPsis,
which is clearly proved be the antique tureprfect Of
po and not contracted from capesus, enormously
planned by Cicero and every pedan since his day. In the
chronological element the author pursues middle be-
tween those who attempt to the derivation Of words
deemed simple and RADICAL cap for instance and those
who dede such attempts play Of empty combina
ons Under this head recued that strange compound
duntaa whose origin has puzzled the grammarans from
Priscan Pntschs, and whose paternity has baed
the searching analysis Of Scher That erudite Latin choa
after several uitIess attempts gave up the task in despair
and qualified the word irabiLe vocabulum." Freund
however, has touched the spectre with the spear Of Hhu
and lo the mystery in which involved has vanished
the ergeca which the main element Of exicograpby,
the literal notion, andthe tropical meanings Of term
explained in succession, nstanced in In the
synonymous element the existence Of synonym is dis
cussed and the Of that apocypha doctrine laid
OPEN The chronological element is divided into anecassi
CAL CLASSICAL and post classical and each period its due
weight assigned And here the authors remark that words
current through age have sunk into disuse in the next
and the end Of this period back into life, focby
recalls the lines Of Horace: ...->
"Multa repascentur qua jam cecidere, cadentque
Qum nunc sun in honore vocabula 81 violet usus,
Quem penes arbitrium est et jus ct norma loquendl
The rhetorical element discusses poetcal and technical
terms. The statistic element finally, remarks the frequency
occurrence Of word or Specification
To it hath always appeared psychological paradox,
subveve of all clinical theories that the polished goy,
warke of modern nations should have exceed in those
pursuits which demand the deepest thought the most intense
and peseveng research and the closest train Of reasoning;
and yet in the Sciences pure and Mixed what tribe
people compete with France On the other hand that
branch Of human knowledge which embraces the faculties of
wit eoqpence, and gnation-poeica, historical, and
dramatic compoon-has been successfully investigated and
illustrated by the sedae, phlegmac and unmagnave
race in Chrsendom.
Well do remember when Professor Porson, the great
Apollo Of Cambridge penned that triumphant trpet
'.The Germans in Greek sadly to seek,
Not one in five score, but ninety five more,
All except Hermann, and Hermanns German"
But those days have passed. and Anglia yields to SaIony
The Carkes the Beneys, and the Persons have given
place the Schweighause the Grotcends the Draken-
bohs the Nagesbachs the Ascheks, and other Teutonic
scholars whose very suggestive Of lockaw In
fact English editions Of the classics are mere re-
prints Of German critical texts illustrated by the notes
of German commentators And the most popular didactic
works Of this classDr Arnold Of England, for instance,
and our Dr. Anthons-are much indebted to the deep
springs Of Saxon learning for the copous streams Of annoa-
which have enriched their useful productions In short
Germany the undputed mistress Of semitic science as well
Of profound metaphysical speculation, and for proof we
would refer to that great mart Of mental producons-hat
grand exhibition Of intellectual exegesthe world
fair of LRIPsIa.
The Lexicon is sae at TArLoR & MAuRIs, WASH
ington. .' "