TO SUBSCRIBERS.
MESSRS. CLARK have much pleasure in publishing the first issueof Translations of the Writings of St. Augustine:
THE 'CITY OF GOD,'
In Two Volumes.
They believe this will prove not the least valuable of their variousSeries, and no pains will be spared to make it so. The Editor has secureda most competent staff of Translators, and every care is being taken tosecure not only accuracy but elegance.
The Works of St. Augustine to be included in the Series are (in additionto the 'City of God'):—
All the Treatises in the Pelagian, and the four leading Treatisesin the Donatist Controversy.
The Treatises against Faustus the Manichæan; on ChristianDoctrine; the Trinity; the Harmony of the Evangelists; theSermon on the Mount.
Also, the Lectures on the Gospel of St. John, the Confessions, aSelection from the Letters, the Retractations, the Soliloquies,and Selections from the Practical Treatises.
All these works are of first-rate importance, and only a small proportionof them have yet appeared in an English dress. The Sermons and theCommentaries on the Psalms having been already given by the OxfordTranslators, it is not intended, at least in the first instance, to publishthem.
The Series will include a Life of St. Augustine, by Robert Rainy,D.D., Professor of Church History, New College, Edinburgh.
The Series will probably extend to Sixteen or Eighteen Volumes. ThePublishers will be glad to receive the Names of Subscribers as early aspossible.
Subscription: Four Volumes for a Guinea, payable in advance, as in thecase of the Ante-Nicene Series (24s. when not paid in advance).
It is understood that Subscribers are bound to take at least the books ofthe first two years. Each Volume will be sold separately at (on anaverage) 10s. 6d. each volume.
The second issue will be ready in a few months, and will probably comprise:—TheVolume on the Donatist Controversy, translated by the Rev.J. R. King, Vicar of St. Peter's in the East, Oxford; and the FirstVolume of the Treatises in the Pelagian Controversy, translated byRev. Peter Holmes, D.D., Rural Dean, etc., Plymouth.
They trust the Subscribers to the Ante-Nicene Library will continuetheir Subscription to this Series, and they hope to be favoured with anearly remittance of the Subscription.