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"These reprints of our Classical, if not also the best English translations of the Ancient Classics, are printed with great purity of type, on excellent paper, and in binding that shows exceeding good taste. The series now includes Dryden's Virgil. The index to the Æneid is a most valuable adjunct to the volume. It not only serves as a reference for all proper names, but for the general leading topics of the story, and for noted or well-known passages. Thus we see such a heading as 'Household frugality,' and are referred to the famous passage in the eighth book, in which the busy, virtuous life of early housewives is depicted. More than two columns of very small print are devoted to the similes for which Virgil is so celebrated. The comfort of this arrangement will readily commend itself to those who are tormented with the hazy recollection of a beautiful metaphor without the power of fixing upon the part of the book in which it occurs. The references to Æneas, Tumus, Dido, &c., are so complete as almost to furnish an epitome of the whole events recorded in the Epic."—Inverness Courier. "Dryden's Virgil is here presented in one handy well-printed volume, with a brief neatly written life of the Roman poet prefixed. Unencumbered by notes, but enriched by a good index the edition is as desirable as well could be at its price, and in its compass."—The Scotsman.

"The present book is distinguished by the same neatness and accuracy of typography, quality of paper, good taste in binding, convenience of form, and cheapness, that characterized the two previous volumes of this excellent series of the Classic Poets."—Illustrated Times. "This third volume of classical translations of the ancient classics has been produced with the same attention to accuracy and finish as the first two. The moderate price is not fixed as compensation for slovenly appearance. On the contrary, it is recommended to the reader by legibility of type and the addition of a complete and very useful index."—Daily Review.

"Melford reports of Dryden's Virgil, recently published by John Ross & Co., that it is the finest edition he ever saw. It is edited with taste and an evident love for the work, and it is sent forth in a manner highly creditable to the new house."—The Fifeshire Journal.

"All these merits of Dryden's style and versification are to be found in his translation of Virgil, which, in the elegant shape in which Messrs. Ross present it to us here, we cordially recommend to our readers. We may add that there is prefixed a short, but interesting and well-written life of Virgil, which will be found to condense into a short compass all the facts known about the most popular, if not the greatest, of the Roman poets."—Dundee Advertiser. "We should expect a large circulation for this excellent edition of Dryden's Virgil; and a rare opportunity is afforded to the reading public of getting a uniform and handsome edition of the world's greatest poems at a very moderate price."—Kelso Chronicle.