Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-27


umes, folio This historical work, begun by
the Able Moresi, and carried on from the
first volume by several authors, is character
lied by Qucrard as one that will not fail to be
useful, in spite of numerous errors which
have slipped into it,
The Historical and Critical dictionary Of
Louis M Chaufepie, 4 vols folio, intended as
sequel to Bayle's dictionary, though inferior
to his predecessor in talents and learning
Chautcpie produced Il work of acknowledged
usefulness.
Chalmers History of the University of Ok
ford, its libraries with biographical notices of
its founders. This is valuable work, con-
tanning information not easily obtained in other
books.
Debrets Voyage to Brazil, vols. imperial
| folio, is work of great cost and beauty.
Brunei quietly remarks that the price of the
book is not sustained. 1t is however inter-
estng and not often found in libraries.
To give the brefest appropriate notices of
BlackwclPs Court of Augustus, Martins Brit
ish Colonies, Plantas History of Switzerland,
WalpoleS Turkey; Hawkesworth Voyages,
and large number of works illustrative of
history and geography would extend this arti-
! Gle to an unreasonable length.
1t will be proper to add, for the benefit of
| those who have the opportunity of using the
library, that in this donation science and art
have not been neglected.
| Tho r,opuSrrint oop, Of ,,pnubI;eboJ
work on comparative anatomy by George
| Stubs, an eminent English anatomst and
painter of animals, will attract the admir-
ing curiosity of surgeons. The death of
| Stubs in 1906 prevented the completion of
the work, when only three of the intended
six parts had been published. 1t is supposed
that this MSS, with its finely drawn illustra-
tons, is the unpublished part of the work
The Pictorial Danube, by the Count de
| MarSigli, in vols, imp. fol-, is a gigantic
work, ornamented with beautiful plates and
valuable in natural history, especially in the
department OF minerals.
A word should be said of the Thesaurus
Brandenburgcus, 4 vols. fol. The gems and
| hlSudlo uSoNllbSb anu fllSIdNGu Ill lIlS WOrK
were collected in Italy by the learned Baron
| Won Spanheim for Charles Louis of Germany,
and this treatise has great attractions for those
who study coins for history, and those who
collect them for mere curiosity. BY the last
mentioned class, the volume which gives
plates and descriptions of the medals of the
celebrated artist Hedlinger will also be much
valued.
Books Of entertainment are not deficient
| though the collection is generally of an eeva-
ted character. The set of Newton's Princi-
pia does not greatly exceed Sir Charles Grand
ison in the number of its volumes, and far
surpasses the popular novel of the last CEN
fury in its deep and enduring interest
DR.. Green has not neglected to care for the
moral nature. He has furnished two sets,
one in the original Latin and one in English,
of the morals of Seneca, the austere stole in
his precepts and the counsellor and associate
of the proiigate Nero in his actual life, and
there are also two sets of Plutarch's morals
! The excellent Oxford edition of the original
| Greek and the English translation by PhilC-
| mon Holland, who was so eminent for the
success and the number Of his translatons of
the classics that he was called the translator
general of his age. This peculiarly of his is
thus hit off in punning epigram on his trans
lation of the Roman biographer Caius Sue
tonius Tranquillus;
| Holland with hi transations doth so fill us,
lie will not let Suetonus be Tranquillus.
Plutarch's Treatise on Morals is obscure and
not easily rendered into English and it is not
known to the writer that satisfactory Eng
| fish translation of it has been made. 1t is
well suited to the taste of some scholars, and
Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson is quoted for the
| opinion that it is not inferior to the splendid
didactics Of the Apochrypha
1t is proper to acknowledge that many of
the facts now given were furnished by Mrs Z.
Baker, one of the assistant librarians, who has
made good progress in the difficult work of
making full card catalogue of the Green IL
brary, the department not subject to circula-
| ton. SIS.