while yet no language of a people that thought well and nobly has failed to grow all the time more worthy; and that our English, which we so value and praise, is the one among all modern tongues which has undergone the most sweeping disintegration and replacement, grammatical and lexical. To think clearly and write unaffectedly is what we have to aim at most earnestly; if we do that our language will take care of itself.

Mr. Gould's style is quite lively, sometimes even too lively; it often verges on the strained or the flippant. Now and then his learning is a little at fault, as when he rails at the word standpoint through two or three pages, evidently without a suspicion that it is simply an out and-out transfer from the German. We do not regard it as a necessary or a desirable addition to our stores of English expression, but we should not care to oppose it so desperately as does our author. Still less can we sympathize with his virulent anti-Websterism. The vehemence with which he assails the orthographic innovations of our late respected townsman is so excessive as to wear a shade of the ludicrous in its aspect. It smacks of the real orthographic purist, to whom an established mode of spelling is an integral and sacred part of language. But, in our view, language is something uttered by the voice and addressed to the ear; a mode of writing is quite another thing, being solely a means of making spoken language apprehensible by the eye, instead of the ear alone; and it is valuable in proportion as it simply and conveniently performs this duty-and practical convenience, certainly, is not a virtue which can be claimed as distinguishing our present orthography. We ourselves are conscious of a feeling of gratitude to Webster for his practical denial of the inviolability of the written word-a feeling quite independent of the value of the special reforms proposed by him.

The lecture on clerical elocution, with which Mr. Gould has helped to fill out his volume, would have pleased us better if it had been less exclusively addressed to, and adapted to the needs of, clergymen of the Episcopalian denomination. It gives a sec. tarian aspect to a work in other respects addressed to the whole public of educated men.

STUART'S EDITION OF CESAR'S COMMENTARIES.-This is a very inviting little volume for the school-boy who is about to read

Caii Julii Cæsaris Commentarii de Bello Gallico. With explanatory notes, by GEORGE STUART, A M., Professor of the Latin Language in the Central High School of Philadelphia.

his first Latin author. It is printed on large, clear type, on good paper, is neatly bound, and is furnished with about seventy pages of condensed notes and a map of Gaul. We are not prepared to pass an absolute judgment on the correctness and value of the notes, for such a judgment should not be declared without a more minute examination of the whole than we have had time to make. But it is noticeable that they give the needed information withour waste of words, and that there is, as there should be, a multitude of references to the grammars, which indicate that the object in studying Cæsar is rather to learn Latin than to read the book.

It is an interesting fact that the great Cæsar should have secured for himself a greater number of readers than any other Latin author, by having written the best book to use in beginning to learn that language. For aside from the interest which the narrative is adapted to awaken, and the great historical value of the narrative itself, the Commentaries are distinguished for the simplicity and perspicuity of their style, while the purity of Latin entitles them to a place by the side of the works of Cicero.

PROFESSOR HOPPIN'S TRAVELS IN ENGLAND.*-Professor Hoppin has had excellent opportunities for seeing England. He did not hurry from point to point, like most of the eager sight-seers who visit foreign parts, but lingered in interesting places long enough to become familiar with their characteristic features and associations. His love of natural scenery led him to seek out those portions of England which in this respect are most attractive, and his powers of felicitous description enable him to depict them with remarkable fidelity. The account which he gives of the different cathedrals of England is marked by a discriminating, yet appreciative taste. The anecdotes of his intercourse with the English people, of his interviews with distinguished persons, and of the impression made on him by the noted preachers whom he heard, are among the most entertaining passages of the volume. There breathes everywhere in its pages the spirit of a cultivated observer, catholic but penetrating in his judgments, modest in the expression of his opinions, and seeking material for admiration rather than for fault-finding. The cordial reception this unpretending volume is receiving is creditable to the public taste.

*Old England; its Scenery, Art, and People. By JAMES M. HOPPIN, Professor in Yale College. New York: Hurd & Houghton. 1867.

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