Latin Prose in the Silver Age. Edited by C. E.
Brownrigg, M.A. With an Introduction by T. H. Warren, M A. (Blackie and Son.)—This is a selection from writers reaching over a period of about one hundred and sixty years (14 A D.- 180 A.D.), the limits being the death of Augustus and
the death of Aurelius. The authors used are nine, Velleius Paterculus, Seneca, Petronius, the two Plinies, Tacitus, Quintilian, Suetonius, and Aulus Genius. Mr. Warren's introduction will be found very much to the point. In the notes we should like to have seen a more regular practice of pointing out the departures of the silver writers from the practice of the best time. We doubt whether the note on p. 213 (ii. 19) is quite correct. It was hardly " Ctesar's custom." He happened to be going through a particular course, agebat."
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