From Messrs. Cassell we have received reprints of foreign critical
editions of two classics,—Homeri /liadis Carmina, edited by Professor Rzaeh, of Prague; and Q. Horati Flacci Opera, edited by 0. Keller and L. Hasussner. Professor Rzach's preface is dated 1885, and is, therefore, a comparatively recent contribution to Homeric scholarship. It is furnished with a continuous critical commentary in the shape of footnotes. The Prague Professor is inclined to attach great weight to the readings of Aristarchus (as crx(doara for crxidayra in i., 157), though he thinks that he sometimes " nods " like the poet himself. The critical notes, for the most part, set the questions that concern the text well before the student. We see, however, in i., 103, a/41 p.‘Xcuval printed in one word, as if there were no question about it. Of the two conabora- tears in the edition of Horace, one (Keller) is well known as a vigorous opponent of the Cruquian readings. His colleague is, as far as we know, new to the work of Horatian criticism. The name of Holder was formerly associated with that of Keller. The pre- face is not dated, and there is no apparatus critieus beyond a couple of pages of examples added to the preface. The Greek typography is elegant; we cannot say so much for the Latin.
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