------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF ANCIENT GREECE. ------- VOL. I. -------------- _Price_ 31_s._ 6_d._ -------------- NOTICE. The Proprietors of CIRCULATING LIBRARIES in all parts of the country are compelled by the new Copyright Act to discontinue purchasing and lending out a single copy of a foreign edition of an English work. _The mere having it in their possession ticketed and marked as a library book_, exposes them to A PENALTY OF TEN POUNDS. --- Several clauses of the new Copyright Act award severe punishments for introducing and exposing for sale or hire pirated editions of English works, both in Great Britain and in the Colonies. The Government absolutely prohibits the introduction of these nefarious reprints through the Custom-houses on any pretence whatever. The public should be made fully and perfectly aware that, in consequence of a Treasury Order to that effect, even single copies of works so pirated, brought in a traveller’s baggage, which were formerly admissible, are so no longer, _unless they be cut, the name written in them, and, moreover, so_ WORN _and used as to render them unfit for sale_; and that if afterwards they are found in a Circulating Library, the Proprietor is subject to a severe penalty. Two clauses of the new Customs’ Act, moreover, exclude them altogether after the commencement of the next financial year. These measures will, no doubt, be rigorously enforced both at home and in the Colonies. [Illustration: TOPOGRAPHY OF SPARTA.] THE HISTORY OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF ANCIENT GREECE. BY J. A. ST. JOHN. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, =Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.= 1842.