3 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 44

Select Passages from Greek and Latin Poets. Compiled by E.

H. C. Smith. (Rivingtons.)—Mr. Smith has collected here some of the more famous passages in classical poetry for repetition. As a whole, they are well chosen. But we are of opinion that it would have been better to have omitted some of the selections from the later Greek poets, which from their shortness cannot be of much use for this purpose. We should not have been sorry to see more Homer put in place of them. The translations in English verse, for the most part by famous hands, add considerably to the value of the book.