Short Notices [pp. 337-344]

Short Notices.
that does give a clear and succinct statement of the views held
by the Presbyterian Church, in regard to a great variety of
important topics in the religious education of the young.
Considerations for Young fMen. By the Rev. J. B. Waterbury, D.D., Author
of Advice to a Young Christian. Published by the American Tract
Society, 150 Nassau Street, New York.
Who are the Happy? or Piety the only true and substantial Joy. By the
Rev. J. B. Waterbury, D.D., Author of Advice to a Young Christian.
American Tract Society, 150 Nassau Street, New York.
There is a raciness of style, and elasticity of spirit, and a
sympathy with youthful buoyancy and hope, which, together,
render Dr. Waterbury an unusually attractive and effective
writer for the young; while, at the same time, there is an earnestness and wisdom in his counsels, which commend them to
the thoughtful reader. We are sincerely glad to see books of
such a character, among the original issues of a Society which
has the public ear to such an extent.
A Comprehensive Lexicon of the Greek Language, adapted to the use of
Colleges and Schools in the United States. By John Pickering, LL.D.
Boston: Wilkins, Carter & Co., 1851.
The successive improvements in Greek Lexicography have
been so essential and rapid, that we might almost say of them,
" quodcunquc suis mutatum finibus exit,
Continub hoc nors est illius, quod fuit ante,"-Lucretius,
and the history of this Lexicon serves to mark the progress of
classical learning which has taken place in this country. It
appeared first in 1826 on the basis of the Greek and Latin
Lexicon of Schrevelius, not as a mere translation, but accommodated to the then existing wants. So highly favourable was
the reception it met with, and so rapid its sale, that in 1829 a
new edition was demanded, and this was enriched by the addition of more than ten thousand entirely new articles, since the
list of authors read in this country had proportionably extended.
The next edition appeared in 1846, in preparing which he
availed himself of the labours of Liddell and Scott, Dunbar,
Rost and Palm, Passow and Pape. The edition of 1851 is a
revision and correction of the one immediately preceding.
The superiority of this work over those of Schneider, Stephens, Schrevelius and Donnegan, consists in the better arrangement of the words, and the order of their meanings, as well
as in the greater attention paid to the particles and prepositions. We have no occasion to join with Damm in the lamentation, "magna illa et indigesta moles primitivorum difficultatibus et tenebris suis deterrere magis quam invitare discentem
potest." And the long felt want of a chronological order in
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