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Homer : Iliad, Books xiii.-xxiv. With Notes by D. B.

Monro, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—It is not necessary, in view of the reputation which Mr. Monro has made for himself as an Homeric scholar, to do more than mention that in this volume he has com- pleted his school edition of the Iliad. "I have assumed," he says in his preface, "that my readers are no longer troubled by the first difficulties of Homeric language." The fact is, that every student set to work on Homer ought to begin by mastering at least the essential parts of Homeric grammar, and that he cannot find a better guide in doing so than Mr. Monro himself.