The Knights of Aristophanes. Edited by Robert Alexander Neil, M.A.
(Cambridge University Press. 10s.)—This edition is the " only direct memorial of Neil's work as a classical scholar." His life was given to teaching. So far we are reminded of Richard Shilleto, whose literary .output was limited to his edition of Thucydides, I. But Shilleto lived twenty years longer than Neil. The work before us is not quite complete. The annotation, indeed, was practically finished, but the introduction, though it had been set up in type, would hardly have been left as it is, for it occupies ten pages only, and its end is somewhat abrupt. (It is pointed out by the friends who have seen the edition through the press that the editor had certainly contemplated discussing two questions of which no mention is found. One is the alleged co-operation of Eapolis, who says ?K* 4,011S Tan 'INVERS 0-vverointra,—apparently, however, only alleging plagiarism against Aristophanes.) The introduction, as it stands, is mainly occupied with the ruling idea of Athenian politics; the argument is most interesting, but a little out of proportion. The commentary seems to leave nothing to be desired.
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