4 SEPTEMBER 1897, Page 26

Sophoclis 2 1 ragoediae, edited by Professor R. Y. Tyrrell (Macmillan and

Co.), is the new volume of "The Parnassus Library of Greek and Latin Texts." It is printed in the new or old-fashioned type which Messrs. Macmillan and Co. have in- troduced.

We have received the third volume of A System of Medicine, edited by Thomas Clifford Allbutt (Macmillan and Co.) The contents of the volume are "General Diseases of Obscure Connection," gout and rheumatism being among them, and "Diseases of Alimentation and Excretion," sub-divided into " Diseases of the Stomach," "Diseases of the Peritoneum," and "Diseases of the Bowels."