REPORT OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION.
Report of the Classical Association. Volume Fifth. (John Murray. 2s. 6d. net.)—This volume, in addition to particulars, personal and statistical, of the Association, contains some highly interesting papers. A resolution was carried that it was " not desirable to begin the school study of two foreign languages, ancient or modern, at or about the same time." Every examiner is familiar with the phenomenon of mixed inflections. A report was presented on the pronunciation of Greek. The president, Mr. S. II. Butcher, delivered an eloquent address on "Greek and the Classical Renaissance of To-day." The other papers were "The Heritage of Unreason in Syntactical Method," by Professor Hall (of Chicago); " The Pillar and the Maiden," by Miss T. E. Harrison; and "The Decay of Roman Home Life Shown from the History of the Roman House," by Mr. W. Warde Fowler, an admirable bit of work. Mr. Fowler sees "an analogy between the Boer farmhouse and the Roman." May we venture to suggest to our readers that the Classical Association is well worthy of support, and to state that the subscription is fixed at the very modest sum of five shillings ?
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