CURRENT LITERATURE.
Latin Prose Exercises. By R. Prowde Smith. (Rivington.)—Mr. Smith remarks with perfect truth in his preface that the principal diffi- culty that boys experience in elementary Latin composition arises from their not understanding the structure of their own language. Possibly, indeed, he is a little sanguine in expecting that most masters will admit so mneh. It takes a long time for some men to find out that young, and sometimes older boys really are in the dark about more than half of what they read even of the simplest kind in English books. It is to help the young scholar over these difficulties, and to help also the teacher whose heart is ready to break at finding the common agreements recklessly violated by boys whom he has been teaching for years, that he sets himself in this. He gives an analysis of each kind of sentence as it occurs, in the order of difficulty. This part of the book is well done, and it is furnished besides with an abundance of examples so great, and for the whole (a few premature difficulties, perhaps, excepted) so well chosen, as to make it a most useful manual
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