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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], An important letter. (search)
Poems of Homer.
We are indebted to West Johnston for a copy of the lliad and Odyssey, published at Leipzig, by the world-renowned Tauchnitz, and edited by the great Grecian scholar Barumelin. The Leipsic editions of the classics have long been celebrated, and seem in a fair way to supplant all others.
They are not only the cheapest in the world, but they are the most correct.
Take any twenty volumes of them — the first you can lay your hands on — and the possibility is, that you will nLeipsic editions of the classics have long been celebrated, and seem in a fair way to supplant all others.
They are not only the cheapest in the world, but they are the most correct.
Take any twenty volumes of them — the first you can lay your hands on — and the possibility is, that you will not be able to detect a single error in the whole twenty.
The care bestowed upon the correction of the press is enormous, and the task is executed by the first scholars in Europe, who devote their lives to such labors.
We have read the Iliad of this edition with great care, comparing it with other editions — both translations and the original text — and we find an error nowhere.
Sometimes, it is true, lines, and even passages are left out, which are adopted by other editors, and sometime