mong whom are
President WOOLSEY, of Yale College, Professor ROBBINS, of Middlebury
College, and Prof. WM. W. TURNER, of the Union Theological Seminary, New
York. The result of their united labors, as exhibited in the substantial
volume before us, is a worthy monument of their high cultivation, their
patience of intellectual toil, and their habits of profound, vigilant,
and accurate research, and will reflect great credit on the progress of
sound learning in this country.

_The Classical Dictionary_, by Dr. WM. SMITH, is one of the excellent
series of Dictionaries prepared under the direction of that eminent
scholar, aided by a number of learned philologists, for the purpose of
presenting the results of German historical and archaeological research
in an English dress. This series has been received with the warmest
expressions of approbation by the scholars and teachers of Great
Britain. In preparing the present work, Dr. Smith has had peculiar
reference to the wants of the younger class of students. He has wished
to furnish them with a Dictionary, on the same plan with that of
Lempriere, containing in a single volume the most important names,
biographical, mythological, and geographical, occurring in the Greek and
Roman writers usually read in the course of a classical education.

His work is, accordingly, divided into three distinct parts, Biography,
Mythology, and Geography. The biographical portion is divided again into
the departments of History, Literature, and Art--including all the
important names which are mentioned in the classical writers, from the
earliest times to the extinction of the Western Empire--a brief account
of the works which are extant by the Greek and Roman writers, with
notices of their lives--and a sketch of the principal artists, whose
names are of importance in the history of Art. The mythological articles
have been prepared with great care, and are free from the indelicate
allusions which have rendered some former works of this kind unfit to
place in the hands of young persons. The geographical portion of this
work is entirely new, and exceedingly valuable. The Editor has drawn
upon the most authentic sources of information, comprising, besides the
original authorities, the best modern treatises on the subject, and the
copious works of travels in Greece, Italy, and the East, which have
appeared, within the last few years, both in England and Germany.

The present American edition, which ha