Seneot-Books.--Eneae Fade et Feta. By E. Vernon Arnold, Litt.D. (J.
M. Dent and Co. 2s.)—Professor Arnold. writes : "It is not without reluctance • that I have ventured to simplify the text of Virgil." But he remarks with truth that this "simplification of Latin texts is an urgent ,edueatioual necessity." A school course crowded with subjects makes something of the kind necessary, and we are glad to see it taken in hand by a thoroughly competent teacher. Books I., II., and IV. are included in the scheme. We have a feeling that, for the special purpose of this book, IV. might have been left out and III. _given. The fourth book is magnificent, but scarcely suits " beginners." A teacher would hardly choose to read 773-83 even under the euphemistic heading of "The Weird Marriage." The volume is illustrated, but 'we could have done without the coloured pictures.—For those who are content to move on the old lines the same publishers supply a useful glass-book in P. Vergilii Maronis Aineis K., Edited by H. B. Widdows, M.A.--We have also received from them, • in their •series of Mathematical and Scientific Text Books for Schools," Cartesian Plane Geometry : Part I., Analytical Conies, by C. A. Scott, D.Sc. (us.); and in their "English Texts for Schools," Old Mortality, Edited, with Introduction, Notes, -and Glossary, by A. J. Grieve dd.)-----From Messrs. Macmillan we have Modern Arithmetic, with Graphic and Practical Exercises, Part L, by Sydney Jones (3s.)
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