An Introduction to Latin Prose Composition. By Maurice C. Blum.
(Sim pkin, Marshall, and Co.)—Mr. Rime has here put together in a convenient form and shape a number of familiar rules, instructions, and suggestions to the beginner in the art of Latin prose writing. Some of the latter has appeared before in other educational works by the same author, but the whole forms a compact, and, as far as the intention reaches, a complete manual. We are not sure, indeed, whether it is not, in one way, too complete. Is a boy likely to use the same book—employing that word in a strictly physical sense—from the time when he has to be told that " a verb agrees with its nominative in number and person, to that when he can turn into Latin On the following day at the first light he was in possession of the heights of Mount C i lulus "
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