In "The Camelot Series," edited by Ernest Rhys (Walter Scott
and Co.), we have The Reign of Tiberius, from Gordon's translation of the " Annals" of Tacitus, and edited by Arthur Gahm; and Chase's Translation of the Ethics of Aristotle, with G. H. Lewes's introductory essay. Gordon's translation of Tacitus is almost worthless. It is verbose and incorrect,—faults which the editor, who prefixes a very foolish and pretentious essay, has been ap- parently unable to discover. The editor-in-chief ought to satisfy himself that the works reprinted in the series (which, on the whole, indeed, is well managed) have some other merit than that of being out of copyright, and that his subordinates are com- petent. No objection can be made to the republication of Mr. Chase's translation of the Nicomachean " Ethics." It is a good piece of work, and the editor has done his work satisfactorily.— In the same connection may be mentioned The Ethics of Aristotle, analysed, annotated, and translated by S. H. Leyes, M.A. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Mr. Leyes has dealt with such parts only of the "Ethics" (i.-iv., and x., 6-end) as are taken up for a pass-degree at Oxford.
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