Harvard Studies in Classical Literature. IX. (Ginn and Co ,
Boston, U.S.A. 6s.)—This number contains biographical notices of Professors Lane and F, D. Allen. The first died full of years, the second in what might have been the prime of his strength. Both had deserved well of their University, having done no little of the good work which has raised it to the first rank. The most generally interesting paper in the number is a posthumous paper by Professor Lane on " Hidden Verses in Suetonius." By " hidden verses " is meant, not such accidental collocations as " Urbein Romam principio rages habuere," but quotations intro- duced just as we introduce Shakespeare, without thinking of acknowledging the source. This is supplemented by another paper by M. H. Morgan on "Hidden Verses in Livy." Some posthumous papers by Professor Allen are also given. One of the most notable is a criticism on the dialogue between Thanatos and Apollo in the Alcestis, which Professor Allen pronounces to be an interpolation.
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