SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Undor this hooding we such Books of the week as have not bens reserved for review in other forms.] Hellenic(' Oryrhynchia cum Theopompi et Cratippi Fragmentie. Recognoverunt Bernardus P. Grenfell et Arturus S. Hunt. (Clarendon Press. es. 6d.)—In this volume, belonging to the "Scriptorum Classicorum Biblotheca Oxoniensis," we have a collection of all that has been preserved of Theopompus and Cratippus, together with the fragment of doubtful authorship which is among the Oxyrhynchus finds. This occupies in all thirty pages, but in eight of these the text is so broken that little or nothing can be made out of it. The editors believe in the author- ship of Theopompus ; more than one critic of repute, however, expresses a preference for Cratippus. Hence the idea of sub- joining all that has been preserved elsewhere of these two writers. Of Cratippus, indeed, very little survives ; there are three passages in all,—from Dionysius of Halicarnassus one, one from Plutarch, and one from the pseudo-Plutarch. Of Thee- pompus, on the contrary, much has been preserved ; as by far the greatest part of this is from the "Philippica," we do not come across any coincidence with the Oxyrhynchus fragment, this being from the "Hellanica" only. An excellently printed volume, as, indeed, are all belonging to this series.
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