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Platonis Ion et Hippies Minor. Edited by George Smith, MA

(Rivington, Percival and Co.)—Mr. Smith is putting the case a little too strongly when he says that "in all literature there is no one who is less known to us as a man than Plato is." We take

the epistles, though doubtful in the form in which we have them, to be of SOME) authority as to the facts which they relate. We should say that we know less of .Eschylus. The introduction, which deals with the form of Plato's writings, and with the position of Socrates, and then proceeds to discuss the two

dialogues selected, is a useful essay, and the notes may be studied with advantage. This is a book which enlarges to good purpose the opportunities for a school study of Plato.