I had learned to read Sanscrit and to translate easy passages in the Chrestomathy, and devoted myself with special zeal to the study of the Latin grammar and prosody.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
It is, however, a useful though incomplete and one-sided Chrestomathy of Mr Arnold's style from the formal point of view, illustrating both his minor devices of phrase and the ingenious ordonnance of his paragraphs in building up thought and statement.
"Matthew Arnold"
George Saintsbury
180. The Persian text of these fables appeared in 1805 in the Chrestomathy appended to Fr.
"The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany"
Arthur F. J. Remy