Latin Prose Composition. By the Bev. Herbert D. Sneyd-Kyn- nersley,
LL.D. (Rolfe Brothers.)—This little book is described in the preface as "the result of fifteen years' experience in teaching Latin prose to young boys," and the highest praise we can give it is to say that these words seem exactly to describe what the book con- tains. Any practical teacher who reads the author's formula3 on the relative clause, for instance, or on the analysis of compound sen- tences, will instantly recognise the concise and accurate hand of one who has long and thoughtfully ground in the educational mill. The book contains elementary exercises, each division of which is followed by a reeapitulatory set ; twelve pages of miscellaneous sentences, illus- trating the various idioms ; fifty pages of selected passages for Latin prose; notes, not too fall ; and a sufficient vocabulary. We notice a slip on p. 78, "Nescio an hoc veram sit," does not, as a matter of fact, represent the English for which it is said to be an equivalent, "I do not know whether this is true." It is an idiomatic usage for "Probably this is true." It is a less common form of the mild affirmative, " Head scio an."
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