CURRENT LITERATURE.
SCHOOL Boons.—Among smaller educational works to which we cannot give a separate notice, we must bestow a few lines of praise on the Rev. Percival Frost's edition of the sixth and seventh books of Thucydides, published under the title of the Sicilian Expedition (Mac- millan) It is Mr. Frost's aim to secure accuracy in construing, and his notes will certainly aid in effecting that object. Of Mr. Paley's Iliad of Romer we have spoken already, when it came before us in a larger volume ; it has now undergone some alteration and revision, and appears as one of the Grammar School Classics (Whittaker and Co.). Mr. Chandler's little work on the Elements of Greek Accentuation is one of the Clarendon Press Series (Oxford : Clarendon Press), and may be named with Mr. Thring's Manual of Mood Constructions (Macmillan). Dr. White has added to his series of world in conjunction with the Public School Latin Primer a First Latin 'Exercise Book (Longmans). Under the title of E tsy Passages for Translation into Latin (Clarendon Press) Mr. Sargent has collected some good specimens of English prose. M. Gustavo Masson, French Master at Harrow, has edited a play of Corneille and one of 1■IoliCre for the same series, beginning the French Classics with English Notes (Clarendon Press). Mr. Currie sends us a manual of English Prose Composition (Blackwood), and Mr. Bilton two little Reading Books (Longmans) adapted to the require- ments of the Revised Code. The Ladies' College and School Examiner, by M. A. Johnston (Longmans), contains a number of questions in his- tory, literature, and science, which the Key to the Examiner solves satisfactorily.
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