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An Introduction To Latin Elegiac Verse Composition. By J. H.

Lupton, M.A. (Macmillan.)---Mr. Lupton's preface, short as it is, is excellent. He is, perhaps, a little too stern in his purism, and forgets to take into account the vast mass......

Priora Latina. A First Latin Book, Containing The Regular...

dence, with Exercises. (" Seeley's Cheap School-books" Series.) By William Modlen, M.A. (Seeley and Co.)—This book has also the merit of being small—eighty-nine pages, ltimo—and......

Edgar Quinet : Lettres D'eeil Michelet Et 4,divers Amis....

III. (Calmann L6vy, Paris, 1886.)—The interest of this correspondence increases as it goes on. Quinet's perspicacity with respect to the probable issues of a struggle between......

The Student's Ecclesiastical History : Part Il, The...

the Christian Church daring the Middle Ages, with a Summary of the Reformation Centuries, XL to XVI., by Philip Smith, BA, with Illus- Centuries," and another of Mr. Murray's......

The Home Hymn-book, With Accompanying Tunes : A Manual Of

Sacred Song for the Family Cir , le. (Novelle, Ewer, and Co.)—We have tried this hymn-book by a test which is supplied by a book lately noticed in these columns, Mr. James......

Hints And Helps For Latin Elegiacs. By H. Lee-warner. (the

Clarendon Press.)—" The object of this selection," says the author, "is to supply interesting English poetry for boys in the higher forms of Public Schools." There is a very......

A History Of Norfolk. By Walter Rye. (elliot Stock.)—lt Is

very proper that a county history should have in it a vein- of pedantry, and we by no means complain that Mr. Rye is willing, nay, eager, to show his stores of carious learning.......

Exercises On The Compound Sentnce In, Greek. With Rules And

a Vocabulary. By F. W. Cornish, la. A.. (R. Ingalton Drake, Eton ; Simp- kin, Marshall, and Co., London.) —These exercises, as stated in the pre- face, are intended fur use in......