CLASS AND SCHOOL BOOES.—Logic. By St.. George Staigr, M.A. (Blackwell,
Oxford. 4s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Stock republishes with alterations and additions a book- that appeared in 1988 under the title of Deductive Logic, and. supplements. the matter by a treatment of induction.—The Odes of Horace, Book III., edited by Stephen Gwynn (Blackie and Son, Is. 6d.), is a mefol piece of work, showing scholarship and taste, and the power of selecting what is necessary. Why n. xiii. ("0 fons Bandusiae ") is
"wide loquaces lymphae desillunt tuae." .
translated by "whence the babbling waters come leaping down for thee " ? The lymphae loquaces are thefons, and do not supply it as "for thee" would make one think.—Macauley's Ebsay on Horace Walpole, edited with Introduction and Notes, by John Downie, KA. (same publishers, 2s.). A special and useful feature in this edition is the appendix, giving between thirty. and forty pages of extracts from liValpole's Letters. These, we venture to say, will do more to make a student really understand Walpole than anything else in the volume.—From Messrs. A. and C. Black we get The Age of Hawke, one of the "Sea-Dog Readers" Series, consisting of extracts from letters of Hawke and Anson, from notices in the Gentleman's Magazine, and other sources. It will be found full of interest, fanciful and pleasant. Hawke knew how to express himself with energy as well as how to fight. He wrote to the Plymouth contractors : "The beer brewed at your port is so excessively bad that it employs the whole time of the squadron in throwing it overboard."—Another volume, peculiarly suitable for the times, is A Geography of the Britibh Empire, by Lionel W. Lyda (same publishers, ls.)
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