26 SEPTEMBER 1896, Page 22

The History of Rome, 133 - 78. By W. F. Mason, M.A.

(W. B. Clive.)—" The Decline of the Oligarchy" is the subject of Mr. Mason's narrative, which begins with the agrarian proposals of Tiberius Gracchus, and ends with the death of Salle. Practically, it may be said, the death of Suns was the beginning of the end, but it was not the end itself. That, it may be said, came twenty years later with the establishment of the First Triumvirate. This volume, one of the "University Tutorial Series," gives a vigorous and carefully studied picture of the men and of the time.