The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-08

From he N. Y. Literary World

From the N. Y. Literary World.
n Copious and Critical Latim- EnglisA Lsricsn,
fousded on The large Latin German Lsxicon of DR..
WILLIAM FREUND. Viii 4fdditions and Couec-
tions from Tie Lsricons 9f Gssner, Fdcciolati,
Schiller, Georges, &c. By f. A. ANDREWS,
LII. d. PIP. 1861, royal 5uo HARPKR g. BRo-
THEIRS. 1851. Washington: TAYLOR MAu-
Ry's.
When il il considered that this noble volume,
without any English Latin part, contains nearly
FIVE thousand columns of closely printed matter,
II is at once seen TO be immense addition to our
stock Of school books. OF many new books for
classical instruction we stand in doubt; they
are retrocessions; but in photography there have
been improvements as real as they are surprs-
ing Let any one compare Professor Driser's
Greek Lexicon, (for so it merits to be called,)
founded on Scott and Liddell, with those which
numbered our desks and muddied our conceptions
thirty years ago, and he will acknowledge the ad-
vance TO be a. great as from the ancient matchbox
TO the modern percussion rife. A similar judg-
ment Is due to the labors of DIR. Freund, an emf
nent scholar Of Germany, whose original work,
Issued during period of eleven years, in four
largo volumes, has attained the highest place in
classical apparatus.
DIR. Andrews, assisted by President woolsey,
Professor Robbins, and Professor William w. Tur-
ner, has given this treasury in English form,
with adaptation to tho wants Of American schools
and colleges.
Lives Of the Queens Of England and Ehglish Prin-
cessss connected Nth the Regal Succession Of Great
Brstain BY Agnes sTaIoKLAND Vol. l.. HAn-
PER's. Washington: TAYLOR & MAuRY's.
Reading Miss Strickland in these narrative is
fairly getting behind the Of the Scotch no.
vels and the Marmion poems. A full memoir OF
Queen Mary is promised, in two successive vo-
lumes, which will be looked for with interest.
PUTNAM's EDITION OF CoopER's NOVELS. =
Among tho rapidly accommodating publications OF
this class Of the season, the completion of the re-
vised series of Mr.. Coopers Leatherstocking Nov
els, in the edition Of the Prairie, deserves the
first mention. For national character and force OF
delneation, these books still remain model to the
writers of America. There is rough, manly sin
certify about them freshness Of the woods and lakes
among which their personagcs move, which are in
striking contrast with fthe hackneyed itera-
ry manufactures of the day. Running through
these traits Of nature, tricks of savage warfare in
cidents of border history, we have the poetic he
roic Leatherstocking, the chivalric gentleman oil
the woods, whose existence, when we have once
been acquainted with him in such book as the
Deersayer, il a circumstance not easily to be
turned out Oh mlnu Inc new prclace6 TO these
volumes are full of interest. We may congratu-
late the public the possession of complete and
worthy library edition of this portion of Mr. Coop
er's works. These works may be found at FRANCE
TAYLoR's.
MAGAzINEB.-The new magazines of the month
| (Which you may find at Shillingtons and at Tay
lor & Maury's,) Graham's, the Harpers', and the
International keep up their steady system of enter
prise. The first avowcdly enters the field agains
the reprints, with greatly increased quantity o
reading matter in place Of the line and mezzotin
| engravings, which we think a good. exchange
Harpers' supplies its usual miscellany, Bulwer
Lever, &C., with the wood cngravings by the Lon
don Etching Club, illustrating Goldsmith's poem
of the Traveller. Stringer < Townsend's Interna
tional, which is rapidly getting on in public favor
has Mrs. Halls illustrated article on Chatterton
Mr.. Jamess Story without Name, Bulwer'
"Novel," and other popular attractions, with va
riety OF foreign matter from the continent.
Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey edited
by his son, Rev. C. g. SoUrHEy. Part 6. New
York, HAMPER & BRoTHsRs. Washington: TAy
Lon & MAURY.
This part completes this very interesting work
One of the most valuable additions to the literary
biography of England since MooRE's Life of Byron
No one read it without having his opinion o
| SoUrHEy corrected and eleyated-for it shows hin
to have possessed some of the noblest elements o
| character.