The City - State of the Greeks and Romans. By W. Warde
Fowler, M.A. (Macmillan.)—To the Greeks always, and to the Romans, till circumstances made it impossible, the" city" was the" State." The modern State, such as England, with its millions of in- habitants, its colonies and dependencies, would have seemed an entity quite outside their political experience, and indeed hope- lessly unmanageable. Even the city, according to Aristotle, must be of moderate size, such as in this country would put it in the third or fourth rank. On the "city-state," then, as thus con- ceived, Mr. Warde Fowler gives us a very valuable discussion, originally delivered in the shape of lectures at Oxford. The book is an excellent specimen of the way in which ancient history is philosophically treated there for the final school of Literx Humaniores.
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