The Republic of Plato. Edited by James Adam, M.A. (Cam-
bridge University Press.)—Mr. Adam gives us here a careful edition of the text, accompanied throughout by critical footnotes, and he has prefixed an introduction in which he deals with the authorities for the text. Mr. Adam's views on the text are,. generally, as follows. The paramount authority is Codex. Parisinus A. (a MS. of the ninth century). Next to this, lea go intervallo, comes Venetus n (twelfth century). He finds- valuable matter in others, and chiefly in Venetus S and Monacensis 9 (both fifteenth century). He does not think that the inferior MS. can all be traced back to A. and 17, but on the con- trary recognises an independent authority in them. And he mentions, in confirmation, the striking fact that they have as. headings of their own some of the best received conjectural emendations of A.—which certainly needs emendation not unfre- quently.
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