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NIEBUHR’S LECTURES ON ANCIENT HISTORY.

Comprising the History of the Asiatic Nations, the Egyptians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and Macedonians. Translated from the German by Dr. L. Schmitz. With additions from MSS. in the exclusive possession of the Editor. 3 vols. 8vo. £1 11s. 6d.

The reader will find brief but graphic accounts of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Egyptians, and other Eastern nations; and in each case Niebuhr, before entering upon the history itself, gives a critical analysis of the authorities on which our knowledge is based. The history of Greece and other European countries is treated more minutely, and occupies more than half of the whole work. Literature, the arts, and the social and political conditions of the people, are described more graphically and minutely than in many other more voluminous works. In reference to Babylonia, Assyria, and Egypt, it is particularly interesting to notice, how clearly the historian foresaw and anticipated all the great discoveries which have since been made in those countries. A thousand points in the history of ancient nations, which have hitherto been either overlooked or accepted without inquiry, are here treated with sound criticism and placed in their true light.

NIEBUHR’S LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF ROME.

From the earliest times to the Fall of the Western Empire. Edited by Dr. Schmitz. Second Edition, enlarged and greatly improved. Three volumes, 8vo. Portrait. £1 4s. cloth.

⁂ The present Edition of Niebuhr’s Lectures on Roman History contains every word and statement that is to be found in the German Edition of Dr. Isler, with which it has been compared throughout. But as Dr. Schmitz, in preparing his edition, was in possession of some valuable sets of MS. Notes, which were inaccessible to Dr. Isler, the present work contains a variety of remarks and observations as made by Niebuhr, which do not occur in the German Edition, or any mere translation of the German. Almost every page of the present work contains some interesting remark of the Roman historian, which is not to be found in the German Edition.

These Lectures form a history of Rome from the earliest stages to the overthrow of the Western Empire. Their subjects are concurrent (up to the first Punic war) with those of Niebuhr’s great work “The History of Rome,” and comprehend discussions on the sources of Roman history, with the criticism and analysis of those materials. The Lectures differ from the History, in presenting a more popular and familiar exposition of the various topics of investigation, which are treated in the History in a more severe style. They may be used, either as an introduction to Niebuhr’s Theories, or as a running commentary on his History.

The last two volumes are an indispensable Sequel to Niebuhr’s History of Rome, from the point where that History terminates.

NIEBUHR’S HISTORY OF ROME.

From the earliest times to the First Punic War. Translated by Bishop Thirlwall, Archdeacon Hare, Dr. Smith, and Dr. Schmitz. New and Cheaper Edition, 3 vols. 8vo. £1 16s.

“It is a work,” says the Edinburgh Review, “which of all that have appeared in our age, is the best fitted to excite men of learning to intellectual activity; from which the most accomplished scholar may gather fresh stores of knowledge; to which the most experienced politician may resort for theoretical and practical instruction; and which no person can read, as it ought to be read, without feeling the better and more generous sentiments of his common human nature enlivened and strengthened.”

A HISTORY OF ROME.

From the earliest times to the Death of Commodus, A.D. 192. By Dr. L. Schmitz, Rector of the High School of Edinburgh, Editor of “Niebuhr’s Lectures.” New Edition. One thick volume, 12mo. 7s. 6d. cloth.

The immense progress made in investigating Roman history and antiquities within the last thirty or forty years, having materially altered the whole complexion of that study, has rendered indispensable a new manual, for the use of schools, removing the old errors and misconceptions which have long since been exposed and exploded by scholars. This compendium is designed to supply the want, by condensing and selecting out of a voluminous mass of detail, that which is necessary to give rather a vivid picture of the leading epochs of the history, than a minute narrative of the particulars recorded in the authorities. The author has availed himself of all the important works on the whole Roman history, or portions of it, which have appeared since Niebuhr gave a new life and new impulse to the subject. A copious Table of Chronology and Indexes are added.

QUESTIONS ON SCHMITZ’S HISTORY OF ROME.

By John Robson, B.A. 12mo. 2s. cloth.

It has been justly objected to school-books, written in the form of question and answer, that, as they may be completely learned by an unintelligent exercise of memory, they fail in drawing forth the more active powers of the mind. It is far otherwise with questions to which the pupil must find the answers for himself; as, by this mode of interrogation he is compelled to exert his intellect in considering the subject of the text on which he is questioned. He is thus prevented from reading cursorily and remembering vaguely; he can no longer have the appearance of knowledge without its reality; and if he learns his lesson at all, he must learn it well.

This book consists of several thousand questions, with indications of the pages where the answers are to be looked for. Every important circumstance mentioned in the history is involved in the questions, which are arranged, as far as possible, in a complete and uninterrupted series. The answers are not always obvious, the learner being occasionally expected to elicit them by drawing inferences from the facts stated in the history; and it is recommended that he should be encouraged, in all cases, to give the answers rather in his own words than in those of the author.