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rpHE cordial reception given by the public to the Series of " Ancient "^ Classics for English Beaders" has confirmed the intention of the Publishers to carry out a kindred Series, which it is believed will not be less useful or less welcome, and in which an attempt will be made to introduce the great writers of Europe in a similar man- ner to the many readers who probably have a perfect acquaintance with their names, without much knowledge of their works, or their place in the literature of the modem world. The Classics of Italy, France, Qermany, and Spain are nearer to us in time, and less sepa- rated in sentiment, than the still more fsmious Classics of antiquity; and if foreign travel is, as everybody allows, a great means of en- larging the mind, and dispersing its prejudices, an acquaintance with those works in which the great nations who are our neighbours have expressed their highest life, and by which their maimers of t:>»'Ti1ri-ng have been formed, cannot but possess equal advantages. A man who would profess to know England without knowing something of Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, and the great writers who have fol- lowed them, could form but an imperfect idea of the national mind and its capabilities : and so no amount of travel can make us ac-