Ecliseenda. By Joseph Wood, D.D. (Rivington, Percival, and Co.)—Dr. Wood
has made here a collection of excellent passages, Greek and Latin (the Latin naturally occupying the larger space), for learning by heart. We cannot do better than quote a sentence from Dr. Wood's preface :—" I venture to think that a boy who, during the happy years of school, stores in his memory these frag- ments of ancient song, and of old politics and philosophy, which, though old, are ever new and ever true, will make the bettor man. The echo of such music,—prossquegur in Benectutem," Dr. Wood might have added " eloquence." The last of his extracts is the mag- nificent appeal of Demosthenes in the "De Corona " to the past of Athens, to prove that the city had ever put honour first. No nobler example of the rhythm of the great orator could be given. This is an admirable little volume.
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