New Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations. By Hugh
Percy Jones, B.A. - (C. W. Deacon and Co. 7s. 6d.)—This is as good a book of its kind as we have seen, carefully compiled and made as complete as one could expect. Of course omissions are to be found. " Delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi " is absent, its place being filled by what hardly comes under the title, " Delirium tremens." In "Cul bono " the common blunder of translating by " What good is it? " ought to have been emphati- cally repudiated. The phrase was the maxim of a famous Latin jurisconsult, " The guilt is to be found where the profit went." " Advocatus Diaboli" is correctly explained as to its eccle- siastical use, but does not mean " Any one who supports an unrighteous course of action." "Non res sed spes est" goes best as the reason of " Difficile est laudare puerum." We see ui for prixov in aryupiais Aleyxazo-i. We miss irAiop ljµruv ravros and KcpayE4 xtpape7. The dictionary contains besides Greek and Latin quotations, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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