24 MARCH 1906, Page 27

The Philoctetes of Sophocles. With Commentary Abridged from the Larger

Edition of Sir Richard C. Jebb, Litt.D., by E. S. Shuckburgh, Litt.D. (Cambridge University Press. 4s.)—It is quite possible that many schoolmasters will be glad to have the essentials of Sir R. C. Jebb's unequalled editions of Sophocles without the somewhat inionvenient addition of a translation facing the text. The translation, of course, is admirable, and no one can afford to leave it unconsulted ;'but for a class-book it is not always desirable. Others of the more technical disquisitions of the original have been retrenched, and the result is a most useful volume.