CURRENT LITERATURE.
Virgil, with English Notes. By Robert Campbell, Esq., Head Master of the High School, Waterford ; and Roscoe Mongan, A.B. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—There are, we think, plenty of school editions of Virgil in existence already infinitely superior to this. What can be the value of such notes as these :—" 50, Caltha—the marigold," and "88, Pedum—the shepherd's crook," containing no information which the dictionary does not supply? So again, "28, Sordida rum—an humble farm ;" the note should go on to explain the difference in meaning between the Latin sordidus and the English sordid or it is of little value. Nor can we think that even schoolboys require to be told in a note that recubans sub tegmine fugi means "reclining beneath the shade of a spreading beech tree," or that solvuntur frigore membra means "his limbs are unnerved with the chill of death." A metrical analysis which is appended to the "dEneid " is, however, a novel and useful feature in the book.
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