The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-04-29
New Publications.

PRINCIPAL LATINA Part l. AFirst Latin Course,
comprehending Grammer, Delectus and Exer-
cise-Book, with Vocabularies. By William
Smith, LII. d. Revised by II. Drisler, A.
NJ New York: Harper & Brothers. IL mo-
PIP. 1877. For sale in this city by Hall L. Davis
Dr. Smith was born with genius for compi-
laton. With no claim to rank among the pro-
found original scholars, the Bentleys and Hey
mes, he has played the useful part of classical
middle man, arranging, interpreting and rem
dering available the labors of recent Greek,
Latin and Hebrew philologists. 1t is no work
of supereogation, which he has performed.
His biographical and other dictionaries are in
comparably superior to all other works of the
kind in the English language. The exercises in
double translation from Latin into English and
rice rersa, which form the characteristic feature
of the Principal Latina, are drawn with the
compiler's usual good judgement from the
grammars of Kuehner, Ellendt, etc Besides
these exercises, the book contains only the forms
and the simpler syntactical laws of the language.
1t presupposes good teacher, who shall regu-
late the beginners pronunciation and see to it
that he learns the contents of the book as tho
roughly as he is already presumed to have
AS<Ai hca thN aoCt"ihdcpSuucusiy VI Nuut aD-
surd association with the printed page which is
urged in defence of grammars like Andrews and
Stoddard's, designed to meet the growing wants
of the advancing student by more liberal al
lowance of the learning presented in smaller
type and without disturbing his recollection of
the familiar headlines and numerals. The Amer
lean editor, scholar trained under the eye of
DIR. Anthem and well known by previous impor-
tant labors in this field, has added some general
rules of prosody, paradigms of Greek nouns
tof questionable-utilty) and few pages from
Woodford's epitome of Caesar.
{. SALLUsTI CRIsPI Catilina ct Jugurtha. Rec
ognovit Geo. Long, NJ. A. New York: Har-
per Brothers. lSmo. PIP. iv. 1l2 For sale
in this city by Hall L. Davis.
professed scholar may want to know some
thing about the fragments, the epistles and the
declamations, which are attributed to Sallust
with greater or less show of probability; but
here in this little volume, neatly printed on
clear white paper and bound in flexible covers,
are the only works of the earliest Roman histo-
rian, which concern the general reader-a rare
bargain for fifty cents.
WANDERINGs OF BEAUTY. A tale of the Real
and the Ideal. By Mrs. Edwin James. New
York: Carleton. 16mo. PIP. 243, paper. For
sale in this city by 0. L. Sanborn & Co.
Mrs. Edwin James. the wife of the eminent
English criminal lawyer, has again come before
the world, not now party TO a matrimonial
dispute, but as the authoress of what is under
stood to be an photographic story of three
loves. The Beauty's" adventures lead her
through the principal cities of Europe and ter
inmate for the present in America Her portrait
serves as frontspiece to the book.
A DARK NIGHT's Work. Novel. By Mrs.
Gaskell. New York. Harper g. Brothers.
syo. PIP. 30. paper. For sale in this city by Hall
l.. Davis.
The dark nights work is murder-a hasty,
passionate blow, hurriedly concealed corpse,
and then the long agony and terror of conceal
ment. 1t is an old story, but fairly told and not
without degree of interest