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List of the Volumes published.
I.
HOMER: THE ILIAD.
By the Editor.
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II.
HOMER: THE ODYSSEY.
By the Editor.
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III.
HERODOTUS.
By George C. Swayne, M.A.
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IV.
THE COMMENTARIES OF CÆSAR.
By Anthony Trollope.
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V.
VIRGIL.
By the Editor.
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HORACE.
By Theodore Martin.
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"We wish, after closing his book, to be able to read it again for the first time; it is suited to every occasion; a pleasant travelling companion; welcome in the library where Horace himself may be consulted; welcome also in the intervals of business, or when leisure is abundant."—Edinburgh Review.
"In our judgment, no volume (of the series) hitherto has come up to the singular excellence of that now under consideration. The secret of this is that its author so completely puts himself in Horace's place, scans the phases of his life with such an insight into the poet's character and motives, and leaves on the reader's mind so little of an impression that he is following the attempts of a mere modern to realise the feelings and expressions of an ancient. Real genius is a freemasonry, by which the touch of one hand transmits its secret to another; and a capital proof ofthis is to be found in the skill, tact, and fellow-feeling with which Mr Martin has executed a task, the merit and value of which is quite out of proportion to the size and pretensions of his volume."—Saturday Review.
VII.
ÆSCHYLUS.
By Reginald S. Copleston, B.A.
Fellow and Lecturer of St John's College, Oxford.
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VIII.
ΧΕΝΟΡΗΟΝ.
By Sir Alexander Grant, Bart.
Principal of the University of Edinburgh.
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