Alfred Maury (_Revue de Philosophie_) would have convinced us that Cæsar never said, and never would have said, to the pilot “Why do you fear? You have Cæsar and his fortunes on board,” &c. On all these subjects an analytical work would be of great use, and for the benefit of those who might be induced to undertake such a task, we proceed to point out the principal chapters in the work of Lancelotti. 1) Zaleucus submitted to have one of his eyes put out, in order to save his son from the loss of both his eyes. 2) The people living near the cataracts of the Nile are all deaf. 3) The army of Xerxes drained the rivers on its passage, to satisfy its thirst. 4) In Egypt the women occupy themselves in commerce while the men remain at home to manufacture cloth. 5) The account given by Titus Livius of the resolution of the Roman senators at the taking of Rome by the Gauls. 6) Agriculturists, or tillers of the ground, are declared consuls and dictators by the Romans. 7) The Lake of Thrasymene takes fire. 8) The philosopher Anaxarchus bit off his tongue and spat it in the face of the tyrant. 9) In a combat between Aëtius and Attila, the blood of the soldiers killed and wounded flowed in such torrents that the dead bodies were swept away by it. 10) Ten Roman virgins, at the head of whom was _Clelia_, after having been sent as hostages to the king _Porsenna_, returned to Rome by swimming across the Tiber. 11) Æschylus killed by a tortoise dropped upon his head by an eagle. 12) In the school of Pythagoras the disciples kept silence during the space of five years. 13) A grapestone caused the death of _Anacreon_; and the senator _Fabius_ was choked by a hair in his milk. 14) _Mutius-Scævola_ burned his hand to shew his fortitude. 15) Among the Spartans all men lived in common and ate in public on the same spot. 16) That the young girls in Sparta occupied themselves in public duties, perfectly naked. 17) _Lycurgus_ permitted the young men in his republic to practise the art of stealing. 18) _Lycurgus_ forbade the use of gold and silver money in his republic. He allowed iron coins to be made, of a very large size. 19) _Lycurgus_ was the originator of the concise, sententious language generally termed _laconic_. 20) _Romulus_ and _Remus_ suckled by a she-wolf, and _Cyrus_ by a bitch. 21) The exploits of _Horatius-Cocles_. 22) The dumb son of _Crœsus_, perceiving a soldier about to kill his father, suddenly recovered his speech. 23) The history of _Lucretia_, such as historians have related it. 24) _Democritus_ and _Heraclitus_. 25) The poverty of the grandees of Rome. 26) _Curtius_ leaping on horseback into the gulf. 27) Draco, the Athenian legislator punished idleness with death. THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES. B. C. 306. In the elementary works for the instruction of young people, we find frequent mention of the Colossus of Rhodes.