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'We recommend those of our readers who desire to keep up their classical knowledge, and even to improve it by acquaintance with recent improvements in scholarship, to procure this excellent edition of the works of VIRGIL.' CHURCH TIMES.

'We cannot close this brief notice without thanking Professor KENNEDY for bringing this admirable edition of a work so universally read, which he has enriched with the accumulated stores of the best modern scholarship and of a lifetime of successful teaching, within the reach of teachers and schools; for it is published at a price which makes it accessible to the humblest student. It is, beyond all question, the most complete, compact, and scholarly edition of VIRGIL which has hitherto appeared in this country.' EDUCATIONAL TIMES.

'Dr. KENNEDY's one-volume VIRGIL will be welcomed by Latin scholars on the faith of its containing the responses of a lively and shrewd oracle to Virgilian questions and difficulties. Hereditarily familiar with the Mantuan poet through the translations by his father and brother, and himself a Latin scholar of the highest distinction, Dr. KENNEDY has naturally accumulated a large store of solid criticism on VIRGIL'S Works, and has not been content to acquiesce in the ordinary tradition of readings, explanations, and punctuational variations. He has now fulfilled the hope of many years, and put forth, in what he deprecatingly calls a school edition, a volume of some six hundred and fifty pages upon the text, interpretation, and literature of VIRGIL, in which, though like the late Professor CONINGTON, he does not profess to have collated MSS. he exhibits a thorough acquaintance with the best texts and commentaries, and an acumen which almost always enables him to arrive at a right judgment as to the poet's words and sense, often by weighing the conflicting views of others, not seldom by introducing some shrewd interpretation of his own.'

SATURDAY REVIEW.

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