Extracts from Cicero. By Henry Walford, MA. (The Clarendon Press.)—Wo
have here the first part of a proposed volume of extracts from Cicero, containing anecdotes from Greek and Roman history. The selection is well made. We welcome it as another contribution to the new style of classical teaching, now happily superseding the wearisome drill of the old. We notice, by the way, that Mr. Watford makes a slight mistake in introducing the eighth of his 'Roman anecdotes," a very curious tale of the discovery of a murder. Strati:, was not a slave of Cluentins, but of Sassia, his mother, having previously belonged to the physician Rupilius, whence, presumably, his medical knowledge. There is all the information needed in the notes, but it is not always given, we think, in the best form. We take this instance, " Vultis a Romulo? Shall we begin with Romulus?" The average boy would clutch at this help, and never dream of inquiring what the construction was. This is the sort of help which a " crib " furnishes, but it is clearly not the right sort.
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