MULLER'S Dorians is a wonderful work—wonderful in its re- search,
its industry, its acuteness. Here are two elaborate and well-filled volumes on an ancient division in an extinct race, of whom history preserves but few traces. Were the man of ordi- nary scholarship required to put down all he knew of the Dorians, as such, he would scarcely require more than a good sheet of paper; while here, all the authors of antiquity are made to bear upon their laws, their language, their history. The translation has fallen into hands worthy of the original. Messrs. HARE and THIRWALL led the way in a sort of joint translatorship, in which the author himself took an honourable share ; and we hope Messrs. TUFFNELL and CORNEWALL LEWIS will not be the last. The author has so far aided the labours of the translators, that this work may be considered a new and much improved edition of the original. To all interested in the social and political antiquities of Greece, this book is an invaluable acquisition. The political philosopher will nowhere ,find better data for his speculations.
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