28 AUGUST 1897, Page 24

The Education of Children at Rome. By George Clarke, Ph.D.

(Macmillan and Co.)—This volume contains a dissertation. written for the degree of Ph.D. at the University of Colorado. The literature of the subject is not large, and the writer has studied it with a satisfactory result. He is probably right in silently neglecting the doubt which one of Pliny's letters haa been taken to cast on the wealth of Quintilian. The letter was doubtless addressed to another Quintilian. The rhetorician, who in 93 A.D. described himself as superstes cranium nzeorum, could not have had a marriageable daughter ten years afterwards.