Harvard Studies, Vol. XIV. (Longmans and Co. 6s. 6d. net.)
—This volume is dedicated to the memory of J. B. Greenough, who was Tutor, Assistant Professor, and Professor of Latin at Harvard for thirty-seven years (1865-1902). The tribute is especially appropriate, because Harvard Studies owes its exist- ence in a large measure to Professor Greenough. He suggested it; his class of 1889 furnished the endowment (8,000 dollars) which helps to support it ; and he was one of the editors, and a frequent contributor. He made his reputation by a pamphlet on the "Analysis of the Latin Subjunctive," a study not attractive to most scholars, but absolutely necessary if scholarship is to be exact. A "Grammar for Schools and Colleges," written in collaboration with Professor Allen, followed shortly after. Its method was philosophical. His pen continued to be active during the remainder of his life. It was not altogether devoted to serious subjects. "He wrote verses," says his biographer, Mr. J. L. Kitteridge, a frequent collaborator, "both English and Latin, with singular facility and grace, and had a delightful fund of humour." Might we suggest that a volume of Harvard verse, Greek and Latin, Arundines Concordiae, or Concordiae Corolla, might be put together in remembrance of him ? A great classical school ought to be able to show something of the kind. Meanwhile the volume before us is an excellent tribute to his memory. A special effort has been made to give it a peculiar character by the reproduction of ancient illustrations to the Comedies of Terence. These are explained by a very careful and learned essay from the pen of Mr. J. C. Watson. The whole subject will be new to most scholars. Mr. Karl Weston, of Williams College, adds an instructive mono- graph on these illustrated MSS. of Terence, in which four out of the seven existing are discussed. Another contribution is from the pen of a distinguished English scholar, Mr. W. Warde Fowler. It deals with the "Polio Eclogue," and, we may say, reasserts the common-sense view of that poem against some eccentric developments of recent exegesis.
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