Plato's Republic. By Lewis Campbell, LL.D. (J. Murray. 2s.) —We
are very glad that the editor of "Murray's Home and School Library" persuaded Professor Campbell that there was room for another book on the "Republic." The great dialogue wants interpreting ; it wants an exposition of the circumstances under which it was written. We must understand something of what Plato saw about him in the degenerate Athens of the last decades of the fifth and the earlier decades of the fourth century before we can appreciate his views and aims when he gave to the world his ideal of a State. This Professor Campbell supplies, as far as his readers require it, though we do not say that they would not be the better for reading Grote before they begin this volume. In any case Professor Campbell has done good service in writing this excellent book.
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