18 JULY 1885, Page 24

Pitt Press Series: [Osi Juli Ccesaris] De Bello Calico, Commentarius

Octavus, with a Map and English Notes, by A. G. Peskett, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge ; edited for the Syndics of the Univer- sity Press, Cambridge, at the University Press, forms also, in the hands of the able and experienced editor, a valuable addition to the series. The notes are in all respects just what they should be for the general student, explaining all the real difficulties of the language and matter clearly and concisely, without discussing unimportant minutise. An appendix treats of the Codices and varies lectiones. In our examination of the book, we have not discovered any points which are not quite adequately explained ; indagine and vestigiis ingressus in p. 43, und eguitaturn procedere imperat, p. 48, repre- sent the sound and useful sort of scholarship which abounds in the notes.