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Livy. Book I. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Louis

C. Purser, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Dublin. (Brown and Nolan, Dublin ; Simpkin and Marshall, London.)—This is an un- pretending and well-executed abridgment and compilation. The editor acknowledges his indebtedness to Seeley, Frey, Weissenborn, and others, and using these in a judicious and lively way, has made a decidedly useful book, one that compares only too favourably with_ a similar recent attempt in England. The introduction gives a very fair view of modern theory on early Roman history, and the render- ieg,s to be found in the notes are generally successful:

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