18 JANUARY 1896, Page 25

Latin Lessons for Beginners. By A. R. S. Hallidie, M.A.

(Rivington, Percival, and Co.)—Mr. Hallidie's exercises seem well and judiciously constructed, and he does not fall into the error of taking his pupil too quick or too far. We do not see, as we have seen in such books, a learner hurried in the course of a single volume from "Balboa murum aedificat " to "Si, ut, sapientibus placet magma animas," &c. On p. 53 is " Num latrones timore fugiam ? " What would a Roman have written ? The ass is explaining why he does not run away from the robbers, who would not beat him or load him more than his master does. Tietere seems a harsh use of the ablative.