Guide To The Choice Of Classical Books PDF Download

Excerpt from Guide to the Choice of Classical Books: New Supplement (1879-1896) In revising a list like the present, one's attention is naturally drawn to the comparative rate of progress in the different departments of classical study. As far as I am able to judge, the greatest advances have been made in Archaeology, Epigraphy, Palaeography, and Comparative Philology. As regards Palaeography, the change which has taken place in the last twenty years, partly owing to the in uence of Westcott and Hort's Greek Testament, amounts to a revolution. Lectures on the subject are now delivered in the Universities students are sent out to explore foreign libraries, and report upon the mss. Con tained in them; photographic facsimiles are multiplied; various readings are given even in the ordinary school editions; while a full account of the mss. Concerned, and some personal acquaintance with the more important among them, are expected in an edition which makes any pretence to completeness. Even more rapid has been the change in Comparative Philology. The list of books which now appears under this head agrees in no single item with my former lists, the authoritative books of a few years ago being now set aside by the experts as erroneous or misleading. This fact affords a striking confirmation of the View put forward by Mr. T. C. Snow in the Classical Review (vol. I. P. That Comparative Philology has not yet reached the stage in which it can be wisely used for purposes of general education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."