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 NEW EDITIONS OF PHILOLOGICAL AND GEAMMATICAL WORKS BY JOHN WILLIAM DONALDSON, D.D., CLASSICAL EXAMINEll IN THE UNIVEKSITY OF LONDON. I. The New Cratylus; Contributions towards a more accurate Knowledge of the Greek Language. Third Edition, much enlarged. 205. This work is designed to serve not only as an Introduction to Comparative Philo- logy, Ethnography, and the Philosophy of Language in general, but also to be a special repertory of information respecting the Greek Language, and the best authors who have written in it. The general and special objects are strictly combined in the details of the work, and while it is the author's aim to establish Comparative Philology on the safe and ascertained basis of the old classical scholarship, his remarks on the Greek language, whether belonging to Greek grammar, properly so called, or to Greek lexicography, or to the criticism and exegesis of Greek authors, have all re- ference to a much wider field of speculation, and to a much larger induction of lin- guistic facts than have entered into the views of most writers on these subjects. II. Varronianus: a Critical and Historical Introduction to the Ethnography of Ancient Italy, and the Philological Study of the Latin Language. Third Edition, considerably enlarged. Independently of the original matter which will be found in almost every page, it is believed that this book presents a collection of known facts respecting the old lan- guages of Italy which will be found in no single work, whether British or foreign, and which must be gleaned from a considerable number of rare and expensive publica- tions ; and while the lists of Oscan and Etruscan glosses, and the reprints of fragments and inscriptions, may render the treatise an indispensable addition to the dictionary, and a convenient manual for the professed student of Latin, it is hoped that the classical traveller in Italy will find the information amassed and arranged in these pages, sufficient to spare him the trouble of carrying with him a volua.inous library of reference in regard to the subjects of which it treats. III. A Complete Greek Grammar, Second Edition, very much enlarged and adapted for the use of University Students. 14^. This enlarged Edition has been prepared with the intention of placing within the reach of students at the Universities and in the highest classes at schools, a manual of instruction and reference which, without exceeding the limits of the most popular -works of the kind, would exhibit a more exact and philosophical arrangement of the materials than any similar book, would connect itself more immediately with the researches of comparative philologers, and would contain the sort of information which the author's long experience as a teacher and examiner has indicated to him as most likely to meet the actual wants of those who are engaged in the critical study of the best Greek authors. Without being formally based on any German work, it has been written with con- stant reference to the latest and most esteemed of the Greek Grammars used on the Continent. IV. A Complete Latin Grammar, Second Edition, very much enlarged, and adapted for the use of University Students. The enlarged edition of the Latin Grammar has been prepared with the same object as the corresponding work on the Greek language. It is, however, especially designed to serve as a convenient handbook for those students who wish to acquire the habit of writing Latin; and with this view it is furnished with an anti-bar barus, with a full discussion of the most important synonyms, and with a variety of infor- mation not generally contained in works of this description.