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Excerpt from A Handbook of Grecian Antiquities When I first became acquainted with Dr. Bojesen's Handbooks of Grecian and Roman Antiquities, they appeared to me admirably suited for their purpose; and my opinion was confirmed a few months ago by the terms of high praise which one of them has received in a principal Review of Germany. The reviewer, Dr. Osenbrüggen, himself the author of a treatise de Jure Belli et Pacis, says of the Roman Handbook: "Small as the compass of it is, we may confidently affirm that it is a great improvement [on all preceding works of the kind]. - We no longer meet with the wretched old method, in which subjects essentially distinct are heaped together, and connected subjects disconnected, but have a simple, systematic arrangement, by which the reader easily receives a clear representation of Roman life. We no longer stumble against countless errours in detail, which, though long ago assailed and extirpated by Niebuhr and others, have found their last place of refuge in our Handbooks. The recent investigations of philologists and jurists have been extensively but carefully and circumspectly used. The conciseness and precision which the author has every where prescribed to himself prevent the superficial observer from perceiving the essential superiority of the book to its predecessors, but whoever subjects it to a careful examination will discover this on every page. 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; an