17 MARCH 1877, Page 23

One of the best, and as far as we have

been able to judge by experience, are of the most successful school-books of the present day, is the In- troduction to Greek Prose Composition, with Exercises, by A. Sidgwick (Rivingtons).—A most masterly and complete summary of the chief rules for writing Greek, and of the difficulties which the student will encounter in his teak, is the feature of the work. In arrangement, in exhaustiveness, and in lucidity it is a model of what such a treatise should be. There is no royal road to the art of writing Greek prose, or indeed to any other art, yet we have seen learners acquire no incon- siderable skill with a celerity that seemed almost magical.