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Demosthenes' Orations against Philip. With Introductions and Notes by Evelyn

Abbott, M.A., LL.D., and P. E. Matheson, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—A very useful edition of the first Philippic and the three first Olynthiacs. The introductions are interesting and instructive; Messrs. Abbott and Matheson have contrived to give in a brief space a very clear sketch of the events between the fall of Athens and the rise of the Macedonian power. The notes are admirable in point of clearness and brevity. There are also some very good analyses of the different speeches. Messrs. Abbott and Matheson have produced a very scholarly little book.