29 APRIL 1893, Page 12

Latin Prose Composition. By George G. Ramsay. (Clarendon Press.)—This is

the third edition of a useful book which has been expanded and improved by successive additions into as good a manual for its purpose as could be found. "The introduction," we read, " is entirely new." It is certainly very full and clear, and should prove a considerable help to the student. The special object of the selection is to provide passages of graduated difficulty" for the Scotch Leaving Certificate and University Pre- liminary Examinations." Some of the passages seem more difficult than these would demand, if the Scotch standard is the same as the English. This, however, would only extend the use- fulness of the volume. There are nearly five hundred extracts, and the easier examples are sufficiently numerous.