Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-02-09

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ciples of Elocution is indispensable.
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neat and transparent, a model of beauty
and excellence, while the matter is so ar
ranged and treated that it will be very ac-
ceptable to the general reader az we'll as
to the anxious student. Let no one who
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ular art fail to read this book. Its cost
is 81 IS.
MoNNUsEN's HISTORY OF ROME
Truly of making many books there is
no end. We are glad of it so long as the
late editions prove to be the best. The
city of Rome in its origin, rise, progress,
power, decline and fall, is, the cent re of
a series of important facts and principles,
interest in the study of which will
never cease. The history of Rome is the
history of the world not exactly in nina
ture, but on the broadcast scale that has
ever been developed by any city or nation.
Many histories in whole or in part have
been written of Rome from the times of
Livy and Tacitus to the present, and in
nearly all these histories fact and fable,
truth and falsehood, have been mingled
together, so that it was very difficult for
the true and the false. In applying the
rules of historical criticism to the nations
of antiquity the Germans have excelled
all other writer's.
Theodore Monnusen has applied to the
study of Roman history the love, the pa
thence, the ~thoroughness, and the labor of
a true German student, and has given to
the world the best and most reliable his
tory of Rome ever published. This val
liable work might have reposed in the
German language, inaccessible to most of
the readers of the English language, where
a vast store of knowledge still rcposes,
had not Scribner & Co. of New York, I'M
dertaken to secure and publish a %transla-
ton of the work, for the benefit of the
American public. To them we are in
debted for this work in four large duodec-
imo volumes, solid and compact. To all
students of the classical languages especial
ly and of ancient history generally, this
work will be invaluable and in~dispensi-
BILE, that is if the truth and the facts that
can be relied Upon are in demand, rather
than NEUROLOGICAL tales and fables.
In reading these volumes the student
of history will miss many of the charming
stories with which Livy abounds and may
at first, feel a little indignant at the loss,
but will soon become reconcilcd by the
straight forward method with which the
goes on and DEVELOPS the reliable
and IL e true. The press generally have
in the highest praise of this work
and are universally agreed in pronounc-
ing it the best and most reliable history
of Rome yet given to the public. 1t will
be vastly better for those who wish to read
study Roman history to read this rather
than any of the preceding works which this
so e%minently supercedes. Our response
bility will end however in bringing the
to the knowledge of the reader. The
work must be regarded as comparatively |
lew in price when offered as by the pub
at So a volume.
FRoUD's POPULAR HISTORY OF ENG
LAND.-The same publishers. G. Serb
ger, & Co., have now completed the pop
ular edition of Froude's History of Eng
land. The last four of the twelve VOL
1mes uniform with the others, fully sus-
the reputation acquired by their pre-
lecessors. The merits of this work we're
spoken of at length in this paper a few
weeks since, and need not be repeated
lere. Froude has done for English His
:ory in a measure what Monnusene has
lone for Roman history. namely, elimina-
ed from it the meretricious and u~nrelia-
Die. Some of the prominent characters
ufer considerably under the severity of
lis research and criticism. These volumes
only $1,25 each.
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