New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-28
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A LATIN DICTIONARY FOR SCHOOLS. BY Charlton
T. Lewis, PHI d. Harper & Brothers.
DR.. Charlton 7. Lewis has conferred FAVOR,
not only on every Englsh-speak1ng scnoo-ooy anu
collegian, but on every cultivated reader TO whon
English is the mother tongue, in the LAun DC
tionary Just issued by Harper q Brothers Dr.
Icwis's accurate and profound classical leaning is
weIl.lxnown. and has peculiarly fitted him for this
remarkable work. Years OF patient labor by
mind singularly clear in its discernment snd
thorough in its analysis. have been rewarded by
the perfecting of Latin lexicon which has not Its
eoual for the use of the ordinary scholar. The
range of authors which forms the basis OF the
vocabulary comprises Terence, Caesar, Cicero,
Liyy. Nepos Virgil Horace. Ovid, JuvenaL
Phaedrus and Custius. together with the Catinne
and Jugurtha of Sallust and the Germania ana
Arricola of Tacitus The more rarely read au-
thors are not included For the Latin Oh the
writers named above this work is an exhaustive
explanation. The quotations are given IN fuii
and arranged in logical order No one can examine
the dictionary and not see that with the use OIL al
possible helps from the highest authorities, Dr.
Lewis has stamped his own individuality upon
this monumental work. 1t is ra-e treat for the
scholar to read carefully the article any promi-
nent Latin word Let him take Ago. for ex-
ample that word of Protean changes, and the
four columns of definition and quotation that IL
lustrate this inconstant vocable supply q
linguistic feast He has it as it is used IN war;
in the chase, in husbandry, in mental operations'
in business in politics. in society," In law IN scores
of idioms, until he reaches the exclamation age
of approval Let him take tum," if he wishes
TO see fine treatise on particle, extending over
four columns from reading which he arises WIN
grammatical glow and a clearer knowledge OF
the value to civilized speech of very little word
This dictionary must find its way into the
schools and colleges and into many refined mousse
hold of our land. 1t is an honor to American
scholarship and lasting contribution 10 the hV
erary wealth of the country
MEMOIRS OF THE COUNT DE FALLoUx. From
the French. Edited BY c. b. Pitman III TWO
Volumes. London: Chapman Hall
In the French these memoirs are properly CHAR
acterzed as those of a Royalist," but the trans
lator has without warrant omitted that part Oh
the title The value of the memoirs OF Count de
Falloux really consists in the light they throw
upon the negotiations and iatrigues OF the French
Royalst parity during the Second Empire and the
Republic. NJ de Falloux not indeed one OF
the stern and unbending Royalists who would
have nothing to say to Louis Napoleon, and who
withdrew stid1y from all connection with public
life, illustrating and vindicating the stanchest
lesitimist principles of the Fauborg ST. German.
He was a moderate Royalist, and believing that
he could do better service 10 his party by action
than by inaction, be did not hesitate to take
Office under the Empire. His memoirs ane mar
urally occupied mainly with politics, and the gen.
eral effect of them is to emphasize the impracti-
cability Of the heads OF the two Royast factions,
who were constantly pickering among themselves
and playing at cross-purposes instead OF uniting
against the common enemy.
The personal preiudices and anmosites which
have always been such influential factors IN French
politics, and which have so frequently dominated
public spirit, to the injury of the country, APP
pear here conspicuously. NJ. de Faloux has not
written an autobiography in these volumes. Had
he done so they-would have appealed more strongly
to the general reader. They contain rather
political justification from the Royalist point OF
view; and the Royalist point view when stated
by one of its best and abest friends is confused
that little sympathy is likely to grow from this
presentation of it, The candor, capacity, mcaera-
ton and adroitness of uhe author shown in
cdentaly and indirectly. Writing not for literary
effect, but historically, NJ. dc Falloux has set down
very little of anecdotic value, are the few
portraits he draws sufficiently concise for quota
ton The translator, moreover, has not done the
best that could have been done with his original.
He is often slovcnly, and sometimes involved.
When he undertakes to paraphraSe French verse
he is absurd. No secrets are revealed, and little
that is new is stated. Perhaps the strongest i'm
preston derivable from the memoirs will be that
of the hopeless fatuity of tle Frohsdorf counses
ana the general futility of the busy intrigues set
on foot by the French Royalists during the past
twenty years.