Short Notices [pp. 554-564]

Short NVotices.[
The Tusculan Disputations. Book First: The Dream of Scipio; and
Extracts from the Dialogues on Old Age and Friendship. With English
Notes; by Thomas Chase, Tutor in Harvard College. Cambridge:
Published by John Bartlett, Bookseller to the University, 1851. pp. 208,
16mo.
This convenient and beautifully printed little volume comprises all the passages in the works of Cicero, in which the
question of the Immortality of the Soul is discussed. In the
preparation of the text, the editor has shown commendable care
and good judgment. The text of the Tusculan Disputations has
been founded chiefly on the well-known editions of Moser and
Kiihner; that of the Somnium Scipionis seems to be a simple
reprint of the edition of Moser, and the Cato Major and Laelius
of that of Orelli.
The Annotations, which fill the last half of the volume, are
drawn chiefly from German sources. Orelli, Wolf, Moser,
Tischer, and Kuihner have furnished large contributions. The
editor has proved his scholarship by a wide and familiar acquaintance with the labours of his fellow editors and critics; while the
scrupulous integrity with which he gives credit for his obligations, is in refreshing contrast with the notorious charlatanism
which has thrown discredit upon some well-known recent editors,
on both sides of the Atlantic, who were abundantly capable
of doing better things. We hail the multiplication of highly
creditable critical editions of the classic authors, both as an
indication and a pledge of advancement in classical scholarship
in our country.
The Life and Tmes of John Calvin, the Great Reformer. Translated from
the German of Paul Henry, D.D., Minister and Seminary Inspector in
Berlin, by Henry Stebbing, D.D. In Two Volumes, Vol. I. New York:
Robert Carter and Brothers, 285 Broadway. 1851. pp. 519, 8vo.
We have already on three separate occasions noticed* at
lengtbthe biographical labours of Dr. Henry, as the volumes of
this great work, and subsequently an abridgment of the same
by the author himself, issued from the German press. We are
most happy to apprise our readers that this elaborate, able, and
candid work in which for the first time we are furnished with
anything approaching to a complete and reliable history of the
life and times of the great theologian and legislator of the Reformation, is now issuing, in beautiful form, from the press of the
Messrs. Carter in New York. Having spoken so often and so
fully of the merits of the work in its original form, it cannot
be necessary for us to do more than announce its publication, in
* See Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review for January 1837, July 1839,
and April 1848.
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