Materials for German Prose Composition. By Dr. Buchheim. (Bell and
Daldy.)—This is an exceedingly useful book, which aims at giving practical instruction in a branch of study which no one who wishes to perfect himself in German can afford to neglect. A grammatical intro- duction gives the principal peculiarities of German syntax, and the pieces selected for translation are illustrated throughout by notes. All the fault we have to find is that Dr. Bachheim has not sufficiently considered the uses to which a knowledge of German is practically put. Letters, especially letters on commercial subjects or other of the common affairs of life, are the compositions which those who are acquainted with German are most frequently called upon to write ; and a number of examples of the kind should therefore have been given. As the book is not likely to be used by any but those who really wish to improve themselves, a. key to the passages to be translated might have been advantageously appended.
Dr. Brett° edits, with copious notes, which candidates for the next. matriculation examination at the University of London will find useful,. M. Etienne Arago'a comedy of Les Aristocrates.
Scripture Manuals (Murby), of which we have received throe volumes,. 1 Kings, St. Luke, and the Acts, are intended to assist candidates- preparing for the Oxford ;md Cambridge local examination and others. Ifthose who use them will attend to the compiler's advice to read carefully through the text of the books themselves, they will have gained some good at least from meeting with these summaries.
Dr. Lowe, of Hurstpierpoint, publishes a second edition of his- Erasmi Colloquia Selecta. (Tames Parker.)—The colloquies were once in common use as a class-book in English public schools, and, considering: how very readable they are, might with great advantage be restored, in place of such dreary stuff as Eutropiue and the ordinary construing books
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