21 NOVEMBER 1914, Page 10

Professor E. G. Sihler's "political and literary biography" of Cicero

of Arpinum (Humphrey Milford, for the Yale Uni- versity Press, 10s. 6d. net) is dedicated to the late Professor

Tyrrell, who hailed it as " a decisive counterblast to Mommsen

and Drumann." It is perhaps natural that Caesar-worshippers should be unjust to Cicero. It is all the more creditable to Mr. Sihler that he does not consciously try to belittle Caesar.