ction of the subtle shades of meaning. Colloquial, technical, and
other special uses of words, here receive their share of attention, and
are felicitously rendered or illustrated by corresponding English terms.
The arrangement is admirable. The words of the vocabulary are
distinguished by an appropriate type. The etymology, the primitive and
derivative, the general and special, the proper and tropical
significations of a word; its meaning before the courts, in the temples,
at the games, among the Roman mob or the Roman exquisites; its
anti-classical, golden-augustan, neo-degenerate or patristic use--all
this is given in a regular order, by changes of type and an ingenious
system of abbreviations, so that the whole origin, history, value and
application of any Latin word may be taken in, almost at a glance. The
amount of archaeological learning--compressed indeed but never obscured
by abridgment--scattered through these pages is immense. Finally there
is an appendix, containing the XII. Tables, and other specimens of
Archaic Latin; and another, giving a list of Italian and French words,
varied by euphonic changes from the Latin origin. There are also a
translation of Freund's original preface by Prof. Woolsey, and a modest
preface by Prof. Andrews, the editor in chief.

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THE REV. F. W. SHELTON, minister of an out-of-the-way parish on Long
Island, and known in literature hitherto only by two or three wise
lectures which he addressed to the young men of his village, (though his
intimate friends have guessed all the while that his hand was in some of
the wittiest and most unique contributions to the _Knickerbocker_,) has
published during the last month one of the best specimens of allegory
furnished by this age. It is entitled "Salander," and has for its
subject the backbiting dragon sometimes called by similar name. It makes
a neat duodecimo, illustrated with wood cuts, and is published by Samuel
Hueston.

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PROFESSOR BUSH is editing and will soon publish (through J. S.
Redfield), the pious and ingenious Heinrich Stilling's celebrated
"Theory of Pneumatology." It is a remarkable book, and in this sea of
silliness about knocking spirits, &c., which in so remarkable a degree
has shown that the infidels who cannot receive the Bible, because it is
"incredible," are the most credulous fools in the world, the German
psychologist will command att