ScnooL-Boolte.—The Aeneid of Virgil, I. Edited by H. B. Cotterill,
B.A. (hackie and Son. 2s.) —This is one of the books which seek to make, and largely succeed in making, learning attractive. While scholarship is not neglected, there is abund- ance of illustrative matter. Pictures, too, are an important feature. The notes seem useful. Cravens (313I is not " brandish- ing," but expresses anlaction alogous to trying the edge of ' a knife. In 317 " Hebrum " is smely impossible, as Mr. Cotterill himself seems to see. "Collide sinus fluentes" (320) must, we should say, be mi ddle, and so different from the nude genu Caesar's Gaelic War, edited by John Brown, B.A. (same publishers, Is. 6d.), is also a volume of the series of "Illustrated Classics." It is an improved edition of a book published- a few years ago.—Yet another volume in the series is The Odyssey of Homer, I., edited by the Rev. E. C. Everard. Owen, B.A. We must especially notice the sound literary criticism in Section 5 of the Introduction. Scholarship is common enough, but this requires a rarer gift. Some of the illustrations are from the Mycenaean remains, others from rare paintings.—The Latin Period, by E. A. Wells (same publishers, Is.), is a book of exercises. The "period" is not reached 'till the book is half finished. Nothing is more important in teaching Latin than to insist on this radical difference between this language and English. Why does not some one make up a little book in which we might have examples of the long Caesar sen- tences broken up and of taunt English sentences artaneed in subordination? As Paz as it goes on, this book should be useful. -A First Latin Course. By E, H. Scott, B.A., and Frank I:mei. BA (Same -publishers. le. 6d.)—Whether Caesar should have his sentences broken up in Latin, as in this volume, is doubtful. If this is done it must be done very care- fully. "Arma nostros opprimunt" looks, for instance, a little queer ; would it not rather be "nostri armis opprimtmtur" ? French -Prose Composition. By Reginald R. N. Barron; AL A. (Methuen and Co.)—Maximes et Pensdes. Selected and trans- lated from the French by J. Raymond Solly. (J. Truse,ott and Sons. 2s.)—A storehouse of good things ; but we should like to have had the French.—Setect Letters, By Mme. de Sevigne. Edited by M. F. Vernon Harcourt. (Same publishers.) — In the " Warwick Shakespeare " Much, • Ado About Nothing, edited by J. C. Smith, M A. (Blackie and Son, ls. 61)—In the "Picture Shakespeare" (same publishers), Henry the Fifth.—Europe is a volume of " Blackiree Con' Mental Geography Readers" (same publishers).—In "Methuen's Junior School-Books" (Methuen and Co.), The Gospel According to St. Mark, edited by A. E. Ruble, M.A,, illustrated with useful maps,
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