Very it's Georg ice, L-IL Edited by A. Sidgveick, M.A.
(Cam- bridge University Press.)—We are always glad to see Mr. Sidgwick's works, though we are inclined to complain that such industry, scholar- ship, and taste should be frittered away, so to speak, on school books. But" examination " is the despot of modern life, and we must obey his behests. This volume has the characteristic merits that we have before noticed in Mr. Sidgwick's editions. The notes are accurate, terse, to the point, and tasteful. Sometimes we could wish them more numerous. In ii. 305, we have it said of the fire, sub cortice tectus robora comprendit." Mr. Sidgwick passes it over; but it certainly admits of being wrongly translated, for Messrs. Lonsdale and Lee (edition 1871) take it as "gathers strength," whereas it must mean "catches the solid weed." In i. 10, " prmsentia numina," " prassentia" surely includes the idea of kindliness as well as of power; in i. 22, we are inclined to demur to the explanation of "non till°. setnine " as an ablative of description in " quique novas slide non nib- Beeline fruges," and to substitute that of "ablative of origin," which would be supported by the analogous affirmative phrase, if we had, say, " lecto Bernina," souse and metre permitting. But these are trifles. Mr. Sidgwick's work is thorough and sound.
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