CURRENT LITERATURE.
A Latin-English Dictionary. Abridged from the larger work of White and Riddle.. By the Bev. John White, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. (Longman and Co.)--Though abridged and published in a smaller form, this valuable dictionary preserves all the prominent fea- tures of the larger vocabulary. In fact it can hardly be called a mere vocabulary, for it is something higher and more useful—a real and true guide for mastering idiomatic difficulties and interpreting obscure pas- sages which sorely puzzle many a student. To each Latin word is annexed the enumeration of its different meanings, and every meaning is illustrated by striking passages taken from the acknowledged classical writers. • It will thus become easy for every thinking man, or even boy, to avoid those ridiculous blunders in translation, those absurd contre-sens which drive' many a bewildered professor almost to despair. Etymo- logical riikeirches are nowadays greatly in vogue, and philologists will be glad to find in this dictionary the Latin words accompanied by their equivalents in Italian and French. The book is nearly perfect in its kind, and shows the master-hand of an accomplished scholar, who has learnt much by his long practice as a conscientious teacher. What Professor Max Muller said of the large dictionary is still absolutely true of the abridged one, " The meanings of each word are arranged and built up architecturally, storey by storey."
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