Latin Phrase - Book. By C. Meissner. Translated by H. W. Auden,
M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—" Ideally speaking," writes Mr. Auden with perfect truth, "a phrase-book should always be compiled by the pupil himself from his own individual reading." But time forbids, time which compels UB to substitute vocabu- laries for dictionaries, to take translations out of the index c.cpurgatorius ntagistrorum, and generally to spare the pupil all the wholesome labour by which earlier generations profited. This book is divided in a very philosophic way. First comes "The World and Nature," with such subdivisions as "The World and Creation," "Water, River, Sea," " Fire," "Natural Phenomena." Then we have" Space and Time," in which we have all kinds of phrases that concern means and ways of motion, rest, divisions of years and days, &c. Further on we come to "Human Life," with its -varieties of condition, fortune, occupation, &c. Other sections are "The Emotions,"" Religion," "Commerce," "The State," "Law and Justice." Nothing could be more systematic or more complete.
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