UPHAM'S SERIES OF PHILOSOPHICAL WOrks. Commendatory Notices-continued. From Rev. M. CALDWELL, Professor of Metaphysics and Political Economy in Dickinson College. Messrs. Harper, Learning that you have it in contemplation to give to the public an edition of Upham's Mental Philosophy, I deem it but due to the merits of that work, to express to you my strong hopes that this arrangement will be carried into effect. The plan of the work being perspicuous and simple throughout, and its entire freedom from that abstruseness which is but too often considered a necessary element in metaphysical speculations, combine to adapt it to its intended uses; nor is its eminently practical learning a less important recommenda tion. As a text-book in Mental Philosophy, I am assured it has no equal; and anything which may be made to contribute to the wider circulation of such a work, and which may thus either extend a taste for such studies, or tend to satisfy the taste already widely diffused, cannot but be hailed with pleasure by all who feel an interest in the progress of general science, and especially by those who, with me, recognise the pre-eminently practical character of that knowledge which pertains to the human mind. And no one, it seems to me, who has observed the late tendency of the public mind, can doubt that this valuable service which you have it in your power to render to the cause of Mental Science would be liberally rewarded. M. CALDWELL. From WILLIAM H. ALLEN, A.M., Professor of Natural Sciences in Dickinson College. From a careful perusal of Professor Upham's Work on Mental Philosophy, I do not hesitate to add my unqualified testimony in its favour to the foregoing recommendation of Professor Caldwell. WILLIAM H. ALLEN. From Rev. ENOCH POND, D.D., Professor of Theology in the Theological Seminary at Bangor, Maine. Remarking on the Treatise on the Will, he says, "Without affirming that we agree with Professor Upham in every minute point of speculation, we have no hesitation in saying that his work is one of great value to the literary and religious community. It indicates throughout, not only deep and varied research, but profound and laborious thought, and is a full, lucid, and able discussion of an involved and embarrassing subject. The style, though generally diffuse, is always perspicuous and often elegant; and the work, as a whole, will add much to the reputation of its author, and entitle him to rank among the ablest metaphysicians of our coun try.' From a Review of the Treatise on the Will in the American Bliblical Repository. "We shall rejoice to see the Philosophy of the Will made a distinct part of the course of study in our colleges; and we know of no work that can lay equal claims to be employed as a text-book with this Treatise of Professor Upham.". ... "It unites the philosophical with the practical, abounds in interesting facts and illustrations, is written in a style flowing, easy, and intelligible, and presents a systematic, thorough, and satisfactory view of the whole subject in all its various relations and bearings. We recommend it heartily to all the lovers of sound philosophy and pure morality." Another and subsequent article in the Repository, speaking of the author, says, "He has studied with diligence the standard works in our language and the Psychological systems of the German and French schools. He has pursued his investigations, not as a partisan, but as a calm and candid inquirer after truth. His system, therefore, is not a copy of any other, but, without any apparent effort at novelty, is strongly marked with original thought. His inquiries are conducted in a spirit, which, without exciting needless controversy, is well suited to advance the cause of Mental Science." From the Christian Advocate. "Professor Upham is a man of a noble and truly catholic spirit, who has nothing so much at heart as truth, sound morality, and vital piety. These works are the fruits of many years' labour; and they prove their author to be a cautious and profound thinker, a perspicuous and eloquent writer.". . .—V. UPHAM'S SERIES OF PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS. Commendatory Notices-continued. From the New-York Review, January, 1840. Professor Upham has brought together the leading views of the best writers on the most important topics of mental science, and exhibited them, as well as the conclusions which he so related to each other, that the important idea of the mind's essential unity is never lost sight of. All the volumes, however, are essential to a full view of the mind, and they present such a view as will greatly assist the student in his self-knowledge and self-culture. last topic is the simplicity and natu- volumes to learn the author's use of terms, or the things which they signify. The study of philosophy in these volumes will be interesting to multitudes who would turn away in discouragement or disgust from some authors who have written on the subthat in several colleges and acadeject. This is manifest from the fact, mies the work is now studied with deep and growing interest. lead-education will be auspicious It lays From the New-York Observer. Among the characteristics of this system of philosophy, we may enumerate: 1. The fact that it is Christian, not in any narrow or sectarian, but in the broad and exalted sense. In other words, it is decidedly serious and evangelical in its spirit. 2. It is eminently inductive and eclectic. The object of the writer is evidently truth, and truth in its simplest, and, consequently, most impressive forms. Its constant appeals to consciousness, and its trains of accumulative evidence are such, that the mind can find its way onward with a degree of safety and satisfaction rarely to be found in ordinary trains of moral reasoning. 3. It embraces all the departments of Mind, differing in this respect from other systems of philosophy; nevertheless, its several parts seem to harmonize with each other. The threefold view of the mind, adopted as the basis, viz., the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will, greatly facilitates this result. Each volume is devoted to one of these departments, and is a treatise by itself. And yet they are 5. The influence of the work on a foundation for intelligible notions and practices on this subject. It indicates the proper direction and culture of the appetites, propensities, and affections, no less than the intellectual powers. It shows very clearly the proper training of the Moral Sense and the Will. In these points of view we regard Mr. Upham's books as one of the most important helps for teachers that can be put into their hands. 6. The prominent position given in this philosophical system to the moral sense, involving as it does the relation of the moral sense to the intellect, and especially to the reasoning power, from which, however, it is cautiously distinguished, very interesting feature. And connected as this view is with the foundation of obligation and the "immutability of moral distinctions," it cannot fail to excite attention. a But we forbear to specify particulars, and must refer our readers to the works themselves with this single remark, that they may feel assured that the opinions expressed by the author have been carefully weighed, and may well deserve examination before they are strongly or hastily rejected. ANTHON'S SERIES OF CLASSICAL WORKS. The following works, already published, may be regarded as specimens of the whole series, which will consist of about thirty volumes. They are all bound in the most durable and tasteful manner, and are for sale at reasonable prices by the prin cipal booksellers throughout the United States. FIRST LATIN LESSONS, containing | the most important Parts of the Grammar of the Latin Language, together with appropriate Exercises in the translating and writing of Latin, for the Use of Beginners. 12mo. FIRST GREEK LESSONS, containing A GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LAN- A SYSTEM OF GREEK PROSODY AND CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES ON THE GALLIC WAR; and the first Book of the Greek Paraphrase; with English Notes, critical and explanatory, Plans of Battles, Sieges, &c., and Historical, Geographical, and Archæological Indexes. Map, Portrait, &c. 12mo. SALLUST'S JUGURTHINE WAR AND CONSPIRACY OF CATILINE, with an English Commentary, and Geographical and Historical Indexes. Ninth Edition, corrected and enlarged. 12mo. Portrait. SELECT ORATIONS OF CICERO, with English Notes, critical and explanatory, and Historical, Geographical, and Legal Indexes. A new Edition, with Improvements. 12ino. With a Portrait. THE WORKS OF HORACE, with English Notes, critical and explanatory. New Edition, with corrections and improvements. 12mo. JACOBS'S GREEK READER With Notes, critical and explanatory. A New Edition. 12mo. A CLASSICAL DICTIONARY, containing an account of all the Proper Names mentioned in Ancient Authors, and intended to elucidate all the important points connected with the Geography, History, Biography, Archæology, and Mythology of the Greeks and Romans, together with a copious Chronological Table, and an Account of the Coins, Weights, and Measures of the Ancients, with Tabular Values of the same. By Charles Anthon, LL.D. In one volume, royal 8vo. (Nearly ready.) The above editions of the Classical authors are based on the latest and most accurate texts, and are accompanied by English Commentaries, containing everything requisite for accurate preparation on the part of the student and a correct understanding of the author. The publishers take the liberty of adding, that all of the above works have been republished in England and Scotland. Some of them, indeed, have already passed through four editions. They are republished under the superintendence of that eminent scholar, JAMES BOYD, LL.D., one of the masters in the High School in Edinburgh, who says, " In superintending the publication, I have not felt myself warranted to make any alteration on the text, as given by Professor Anthon, nor to mutilate, by the slightest omission, his admirable Explanatory Notes." A more detailed view of the plan of the series, &c., will be found on the next page. FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. IN presenting the volumes of this series, as far as it has been completed, to the notice of the public, the subscribers beg leave to say a few words respecting its general features, and the advantages that are to result from it both to students and instructers. The plan proposed is to give editions of all the authors usually read in our schools and colleges, together with such elementary and subsidiary works as may be needed by the classical student either at the commencement, or at particular stages, of his career. The editions of the Classical authors themselves will be based on the latest and most accurate texts, and will be accompanied by English commentaries, containing everything requisite for accurate preparation on the part of the student and a correct understanding of the author. The fear entertained by some instructers, lest too copious an array of notes may bribe the student into habits of intellectual sloth, will be found to be altogether visionary. That part of the series which contains the textbooks for schools must, in order to be at all useful, have a more extensive supply of annotations than the volumes intended for college lectures; and when these last make their appearance, the system of commenting adopted in them will not fail to meet with the approbation of all. The advantages, then, which this series promises to confer are the following: the latest and best texts; accurate commentaries, putting the student and instructer in possession of the opinions of the best philologists; together with all such subsidiary information as may serve, not only to throw light upon the meaning of the author, but also to give rise in the young student to habits of correct thinking and to the formation of a correct taste. Many of the works at present used in our Classical schools are either reprints of antiquated editions, swarming with errors, not merely in the typography, but in the matter itself; or else they are volumes, fair to the view, indeed, as far as manual execution is concerned, but either supplied with meager and unsatisfactory commentaries, or without any commentaries at all. These are the works that drive students to the use of translations, and thus mar the fairest prospects of youthful scholarship, producing an infinitely stronger habit of intellectual indolence than the most copious commentary could engender. Indeed, to place this matter in its proper light, and to show, within a very brief compass, how much good the projected series is about to accomplish, it may be sufficient to state, that the printed translations of those authors whose works have been thus far published in the series meet now with a much less ready sale than formerly; and are seldom, if ever, seen in the hands of those whose instructers have the good sense and judgment to give a decided preference to the volumes edited by Professor Anthon. The publishers take the liberty to subjoin a few of the communications relative to the published volumes of the series, which they have received from gentlemen of high classical reputation in different parts of the country. New-York, May, 1839. HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET. ANTHON'S SERIES OF CLASSICAL WORKS FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. From H. HUMPHREY, D.D., Presi- | From the Rt. Rev. Bishop M'IL dent of Amherst College, at Am herst, Mass. VAINE, President of Kenyon College, at Gambier, Ohio. 1 am very happy to see that you have I anticipate the greatest benefits to our undertaken to furnish uniform editions schools and colleges from the admirable of the Latin classics for the use of our edition of the classics which you are now grammar schools and higher seminaries publishing, under the superintendence of learning. Professor Anthon deserves and illustrated by the copious and learnand will receive the thanks of the public ed notes of Professor Anthon. What for the labour which he has so judicious- your accomplished editor has aimed at ly and successfully bestowed upon Salin his Horace, Cæsar, and other volumes lust, Caesar, and Cicero. The explan- of the series, few can have been much atory notes or commentaries are more co- connected with classical institutions in pious and comprehensive than those of this country without learning to be any other edition I have seen, and much cisely the one needful thing to their stubetter adapted to the wants of young students. The object is most satisfactorily dents. Among the most valuable of these notes are those which divert attention to the beautiful uses of the moods and tenses, and explain the delicate shades of meaning and peculiar beauties that depend upon them, which our language often expresses imperfectly and with difficulty, and which young learners rarely regard. The explanations of the force and meaning of the particles are also very useful. The historical, geographical, and other indexes are also highly valuable, furnishing the student, as they do, with felicitous illustrations of the text, and much general information. The text seems to be settled with much care and ability. The editions adopted as the basis or referred to as authority are those in the highest repute among scholars. The typographical execution is very fine, and this is a high merit. The wretched reprints of foreign editions of the classics, got up in cheap offices, on wretched paper, with incompetent proof-readers and no editors, to which, until within a very few years, our students have been universally condemned, have, by taking them young, been as successful in making them uncertain and inaccurate scholars as if that had been one of the main objects of the publishers. School books of all kinds, instead of being the worst (as they often are), should be the most carefully printed books we have. H. HUMPHREY. pre attained. The needed books we have, CHAS. P. M'ILVAINE. From WILLIAM A. DUER, LL.D., President of Columbia College, in the City of New-York. From the manner in which this undertaking has been so far executed, as well as from the established character and reputation of Professor Anthon as a scholar, his experience as an instructer, and the accuracy and judgment previously evinced by him as an editor and commentator, I can entertain no doubt of the success of the enterprise, so far as his editorial labours and your own skill and experience as publishers are concerne1 ; and I trust that, from the increasing value of classical studies in the estimation of the public, this praicious and spirited effort to facilitate and promote so important a branch of education will be duly appreciated and liberally rewarded. I remain, gentlemen, Your obedient servant, W. A. DUER. |