we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity. Partial judges that we are of our own excellencies, and other men's defaults! But a broomstick, perhaps, you will say, is an emblem of a tree standing on its head; and pray what is man, but a topsyturvy creature, his animal faculties perpetually mounted on his rational, his head where his heels should be, grovelling on the earth! and yet, with all his faults, he sets up to be a universal reformer and corrector of abuses, a remover of grievances, rakes into every slut's corner of Nature, bringing hidden corruption to the light, and raises a mighty dust where there was none before; sharing deeply all the while in the very same pollutions he pretends to sweep away his last days are spent in slavery to women, and generally the least deserving, till, worn out to the stumps, like his brother besom, he is either kicked out of doors, or made use of to kindle flames for others to warm themselves by. FINIS. AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BOOKS CONTAINED IN BOHN'S LIBRARIES. Detailed Catalogue, arranged according to the various ADDISON'S Works. With the Notes of Bishop Hurd, Portrait, and 8 Plates of Medals and Coins. Edited by H. G. Bohn. 6 vols. 35. 6d. each. ÆSCHYLUS, The Dramas of. Translated into English Verse by Anna Swanwick. 4th Edition, revised. 5s. The Tragedies of. Translated into Prose by T. A. Buckley, B.A. 35. 6d. AGASSIZ and GOULD'S Outline of Comparative Physiology. Enlarged by Dr. Wright. With 390 Woodcuts. 5s. ALFIERI'S Tragedies. Translated into English Verse by Edgar A. Bowring, C. B. 2 vols. 35. 6d. each. ALLEN'S (Joseph, R. N.) Battles Translated by Prof. C. D. Yonge, ANDERSEN'S Danish Legends and Fairy Tales. Translated by Caroline Peachey. With 120 Wood Engravings. 5s. ANTONINUS (M. Aurelius), The Thoughts of. Trans. literally, with Notes and Introduction by George Long, M.A. 3s. 6d. APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. 'The Argonautica.' Translated by E. P. Coleridge, B.A. 5s. APPIAN'S Roman History. Translated by Horace White, M.A., LL.D. With Maps and Illustrations. 2 vols. 6s. each. APULEIUS, The Works of, Comprising the Golden Ass, God of Socrates, Florida, and Discourse of Magic. 5s. ARIOSTO'S Orlando Furioso. Translated into English Verse by W. S. Rose. With Portrait, and 24 Steel Engravings. 2 vols. 5s. each. ARISTOPHANES' Comedies. Translated by W. J. Hickie. 2 vols. 5s. each. ARISTOTLE'S Nicomachean Ethics. Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by the Venerable Archdeacon Browne. 55. ARISTOTLE'S Politics and Economics. Translated by E. Walford, M.A., with Introduction by Dr. Gillies. 5s. Metaphysics. Translated by the Rev. John H. M'Mahon, M.A. 55. History of Animals. Trans. by Richard Cresswell, M.A. 5s. Organon; or, Logical Treatises, and the Introduction of Porphyry. Translated by the Rev. O. F. Owen, M.A. 2 vols. 35. 6d. each. Rhetoric and Poetics. Trans. by T. Buckley, B.A. 55. ARRIAN'S Anabasis of Alex. ander, together with the Indica. Translated by E. J. Chinnock, M.A., LL.D. With Maps and Plans. 5s. ATHENAUS. The Deipnosophists; or, the Banquet of the Learned. Trans. by Prof. C. D. Yonge, M.A. 3 vols. 5s. each. ATLAS of Classical Geography. 22 Large Coloured Maps. With a Complete Index. Imp. 8vo. 7s. 6d. BACON'S Moral and Historical Works, including the Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, Henry VII., Henry VIII., Elizabeth, Henry Prince of Wales, History of Great Britain, Julius Cæsar, and Augustus Cæsar. Edited by J. Devey, M.A. 3s. 6d. Novum Organum and Advancement of Learning. Edited by J. Devey, M.A. 55. BALLADS AND SONGS of the Peasantry of England. Edited by Robert Bell. 35. 6d. BAX'S Manual of the History BION. See THEOCRITUS. BLAIR'S Chronological Tables. Revised and Enlarged. Comprehending the Chronology and His |