New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-14
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

AN EyctIsHGRBEK LEXICON BY G D Y9SeE WIN mani
" NV lIteles ETC Bdied by HENRY DsEER LII d. 'f'S'
s;rel ~ Columbia Coliege. Harper Br0'herS
More than fifteen years ago TINS Work was
announced as ready for immediate puohoauon' Inc
s,ereotype plates had been prepared, and all that wa"
vanting was to put the book to press TOT winch e"
weeks would have sufioed But in the hrc 10y winch 'o
Harper establishment was. consumed, everything per
,n IN the hook was destroyed. The stereotype plates
were melted every page Of copy aud proosheets was
burnt all the results Of the labor Of years were swept
AWAY in an hour Author and publishers had 10 peSiu
their work anew The result is now before MS. Ihs
Great individual loss is, however public gain In the
meantime Mr. Yonge had prepared new edition. cor
racted and much enlarged and Professor Drsler was
enabled beside his additions throughout bOdy OF
the book TO prefix append several most valuable pa
pers These are !. List Of Greek Proper Names
whether OF persons places q Pilons eAceHeht WON
on Greek Synonyms An Essay on the order OF "o'
in Attic Greek Prose- by Professor Charles Short OF W
lumbia College. -
Predecessor shorts contrbution-whch he modestly
STYLES an Essay but which really book Of consldefa-
Die size-s beyond all question the most notable adoh
which has of late years been made 10 TINS department. vi
culture Ii consists OF brief rules for the position Oh
words elcidaied 10y abundant citations from the great
masters Of Attic prose Take for example, the section
ON "The Position Of the Partcpe in its Sentence Inc
rules hardly dozen in number, occupy less than fity
lines The Illustrative examples, each Of which Is as
signed 10 IFS proper place in the works OF the authors
cited number fully thousand. aud occupy al least
twelve hundred lines. In ALL there are in THE Essay not
less than fifteen thousand citations illustrative OF the
single subject OF the order OF Words in Attic Greek
Prose" We trust that this Essay, which viii contribute
NJ much toward more exact knowledge OF that mar
yelou. language I'm which Is embodied whatever we know
of our highest relations and the study OF which mas
already done much in exatng and refining the most
exalted and refined nations Of the world" will be issued
in separate form II is work which no scholar viii
willingly be without.
Rnt after ALL the great bulk OF work OF this kind
uus consist of the vocabulary Of English words and
phrases for which equivalents in Greek given. To
execute properly this labor demands not merely scholar
ship in the ordinary acceptation of the word but intel
lecual cana, " of a far higher order For with the
exception of few words indicating natural objects no
word in one language has precise and absolute equya-
lent in any other Numerous shades and relations OF
thought VIII, in English expressed by one word
will in Greek expressed by several and, in like man
ner many which in Greek expressed by single word
will in English be denoted by one OF several.
Take for example, some Of the Specifications of our
English word "tor, and the manner in which these Will
he expressed in GrcckAs conjunction, denoting the
veao or occasion Of something before stated il is
pressed in Greek by 1do In the general sense OF con-
sdri,g that it was so and So" by 5s Ola Thus, Thu
cydides SAYS that could speak very well "J0r
(Ss) a Laccdemonan;" and SOphoces, "For (Ydp) he
lSoi'ANH NN1~N'''o
relations between certain words phrases it is ex-
pressed in many ways For example: In behG.f Of Hpi,
1o6, Hoog IMP For tie sake Of dui, 1vssa iHi kara,
p,7d rp6s Tus,ead Of GvTi, ~aOG no. TO denote mo-
tive as he will do for fear Gu4i sis, rOi MOO And
reyersely any Greek proposition in its various sgnifc
tons will in English be expressed by several Thus iH
in different relations must be rendered into English 10y
al bL for, ia, on, Ooer upon, etc.
The foregoing is but a slight instance Of the wide
range Of thought required of photographer who under
takes to instruct speaking English how he mus
express himself in Greek. He must have mastered h
precise be conveyed and then by careful study
Of Greek writers, learn how they have expressed thai
idea Again, in every language there are words and
phrases peculiar TO different classes of writer's and
speakers Some purely p0eedi some are technScdt
nsed only by writers special Subjects some are UUgdT
or coloqtudI, never used in grave discourse. This
0uaffv OF words is best denoted in the OF dead
Language, by indicating a. Those which common TO
all writer's o. Those wholly poetical g. Those which
are technical or cooquia This, for the first time in an
nglishCireek Lexicon, has been thoroughly done in
this work. Taken all in all, may safely pronounce
this Lexicon h in these and in every other respect
10 thoroughly welldone justify far more than the
modest statement Professor Drser The pupil has
thus put into his hands all that he requires for Greek
composition except the syntactca! Rules, for which he
must consult his Grammar"