CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP.
A History of Classical Scholarship. By Dr. Sandys. Vol. I. Second Edition. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d. net.)— Thin admirable work was reviewed in these columns little more than two years ago ; but the fact that a new edition is required at what the author calls "an unexpectedly early date" deserves at least some notice. At a time when the position of "classical scholarship" might seem to be in some peril, it is an encouraging sign that a volume which is distinctly of a learned rather than a popular character should meet with such a rapid and remark- able sale. Dr. Sandys is to be congratulated on the proof which he has thus afforded that sound and solid work, even when it deals with classical study, can still ensure prompt and full recogni- tion. He is not, however, content with his past labours, but, with indefatigable industry, has amplified this new edition to the extent of some twenty-eight pages by adding a large number of those exact references to authorities which are so essential in a standard work of this character, while he also announces that the second volume, "including a series of portraits of eminent scholars" from the fifteenth century to the present time, "is already in the press." No one who recalls—as every student must—the names of those illustrious, and yet too often obscure, men who since the revival of letters have handed on the torch of classical learning, can fail to look forward with interest to this almost completed volume. We can only trust that at some now distant date a still further volume will be added to this magnum opus, and that Dr. Sandys will receive from some great scholar of the future the same wise and kindly treatment which he has meted out to so many of his own predecessors.
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