classical, biographical, and geographical dictionaries edited by Dr. William Smith; to the elegant and valuable treasury of Greek and Roman antiquities published by Mr. Rich, under the title of "An Illustrated Companion to the Greek Lexicon and Latin Dictionary;" as well as to many other works which he studied during the preparation of his "Geography of Herodotus," and which are duly mentioned in the preface and foot-notes to that publication. He might likewise name the "Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece," by the Abbé Barthelemy; but, though he has partly taken the idea of the present biography from that celebrated performance, yet he has borrowed none of its materials.
In conclusion, the author may be permitted to state, that should the present volumes meet with the approbation of the public, they will probably be followed by others of a similar class. It will be readily perceived that the ancient world is here surveyed through a Greek medium, and at a period when the empires of Assyria and Babylonia had ceased to be, when Judah was a desolation, and when Rome had not as yet commenced her career of conquest and of glory. Most gladly, then, would the writer return to that young world which he has so reluctantly quitted; and, surveying it under other aspects and through other mediums, call up brighter and still more varied pictures of the nations which have passed away.