Limen Latinuna. By C. H. Gibson, M.A. (Rolfe Brothers.)—In apologising
for adding one more to our many Latin exereise-booka, the author claims for his own the merits of " practical character, simplicity of arrangement, and copiousness of illustration." We
believe that this claim is made good, and that the book will prove a very satisfactory guide to the simple sentence, and a little way be. yond. There is a complete absence of the explanatory-lecture style, which means to be easy and encouraging, but succeeds only in being slipshod and bewildering. We miss also, with approval, what may be called the incantation theory of teaching Latin by the help of doggrel verse. The future infinitive passive, always a mystery with boys, is not made more mysterious by the perverse use of such examples as " credo mnrum mdiflcatnm iri ;" two examples are given, one using " mulierem," the other "injuries." Throughout the book, example predominates over precept, and such statements as may be objected to are easily neglected or explained. The exercises are well written and copious, and the vocabularies clearly arranged.
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