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TRÜBNER'S BIBLIOTHECA GLOTTICA-continued.
Contents. Then follow Dr. Ludewig's Bibliotheca Glottica, alphabetically arranged, with additions by the Editor, pp. 1-209; Professor Turner's additions, with those of the Editor to the same, also alphabetically arranged, pp. 210-246; Index, pp. 247 -- 256; and list of Errata. pp. 257, 258. One volume, handsomely bound in cloth, price 10s 6d
This work is intended to supply a great want, now that the study of Ethnology has proved that exotic languages are not mere curiosities, but essential and interesting parts of the natural history of man, forming one of the most curious links in the great chain of national affinities, defining as they do the reciprocity existing between man and the soil he lives tipon. No one can venture to write the history of America without a knowledge of her aboriginal languages; and unimportant as such researches may seem to men engaged in the mere bustling occupations of life, they will at least acknowledge that these records of the past, like the sternlights of a departing ship, are the last glimmers of savage life, as it becomes absorbed or recedes before the tide of civilization. Dr. Ludewig and Professor Turner have made most diligent use of the public and private collections in America, access to all of which was most liberally granted to them. This has placed at their disposal the labours of the American Missionaries, so little known on this side of the Atlantic that they may be looked upon almost in the light of untrodden ground. But English and Continental libraries have also been ransacked; and Dr. Ludewig kept up a constant and active correspondence with scholars of "the Fatherland", as well as with men of similar tastes and pursuits in France, Spain, and Holland, determined to leave no stone unturned to render his labours as complete as possible. The volume, perfect in itself, is the first of an enlarged edition of Vater's "Linguarum lotius orbis Inder". The work has been noticed by the press of both Continents, and we may be permitted to refer particularly to the following:
OPISIONS OF THE PRESS, “This work, mainly the production of fidence to persevere in his arduous and the late llerr Ludewig, a German na- most honourable task." - The Critic, 15th turalized in America, is devoted to an Dec. 1857. account of the literature of the aboriginal Janguages of that country. It gives an
"Few would believe that a good octavo alphabetical list of the varions tribes of
volume would be necessary to exhaust whose languages any record remains, and
the subject; yet so it is, and this handrefers to the works, papers, or manuscripts,
some, useful, and curious volnme, carein which such information may be found.
fully compiled by Mr. Ludewig, assisted The work has evidently been a labour of
hy Professor Turner, and edited by the
careful hand of Mr. Trübner, the wellTove; and as no pains seems to have been spared by the elitors, Prof. Turner and
known publisher, will be sure to find a Mr. Trübner, in rendering the work as
place in many libraries." - Bent's Adreraccurate and complete as possible, those
liser, 6th Nov. 1857. who are most interested in its contents "The lovers of American linguistics will be best able to judge of the labour will find in the work of Mr. Trübner and assiduity bestowed upon it by anthor, scarcely any point omitted calculated to editors, and publisher."- Atheneum, 5th aid the comparative philologer in tracing April, 1858.
the various languages of the great Western “This is the first instalment of a work Continent."- Galiray Mercury, 30th Jan. which will be of the greatest value to 1858. philologists; and is a compendium of the
"Only those deeply versed in philologiaboriginal languages of the American con
cal studies can appreciate this book at its tinents, and a digest of all the known
full value. It shows that there are upliterature bearing upon those languages.
wards of seven hundred and fifty abMr. Trübner's hand has been engaged
original American languages." --- Gentlepassim, and in his preface he lays claim
man's Magazine, Feb. 1858. to about one-sixth of the whole; and we have no doubt that the encouragement "The work contains an account of no with which this portion of the work will fewer than seven hundred different abbe received by scholars, will be such as original dialects of America, with an into inspire Mr. Trübner with sufficient con- troductory chapter of bibliographical in
