Tacit us : Dialogus de Oratoribus. Edited by Charles Edwin
Bennett. (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—The Dialogus has had much attention directed to it of late. Professor Peterson, in this country, has published a full edition of it, and Professor Gude- man, in the States, one yet more elaborate. Here we have a convenient volume well adapted for the upper forms of schools, for whom, indeed, the book is eminently suitable.—Cornelii
Taciti de Germania. Edited, with Introduction, Stc., by Henry Furneaux. (Clarendon Press.)—Mr. Furneaux' edition of the Annals was so admirable that it bespeaks the student's best con- sideration for this new work. He modestly apologises for certain defects in the direction of " German archaeology, history, and law." But he certainly gives us a very ample commentary. For all practical purposes his edition is probably as complete as need be. In c. 7 he takes exigere playas with Orelli, " to examine for
purposes of comparison." We are inclined to think it is for purposes of surgery. This brings out more strongly the force of pavent. Throughout the annotations, as far as we have noted it, Mr. Furneaux is both exhaustive and accurate.—In the series of " Elementary Classics " (Macmillan), we have Plutedrus : Fables, edited, with introduction, &c., by the Rev. H. C. Nall ; and Ballast : the Jugurthine War, by Edward P. Coleridge. Both volumes are furnished with notes and a vocabulary. We have no adverse criticism to make on them ; but should not a lad who has got as far as reading Sallust be promoted from the vocabulary to the dictionary ? We have also received Odes and Epodes of Horace, edited, with introduction and notes, by Clement Lawrence Smith (Ginn, Boston, U.S.A.).—Thad of Homer, Book XXIV., by G. M. Edwards, M.A. (Cambridge University Press), and Ccesar's Gallic War, I. IL, edited by T. W. Haddon, M.A., and G. C. Harrison, M.A. (E. Arnold).
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