Rome. By Eustace Reynolds-Ball. (A. and C. Black. 2s. 6d.)
—This volume is well described as "A Practical Guide to Rome and its Environs." It is thoroughly businesslike and practical, and shows at the same time a full knowledge of the archaeology of the subject. The reader learns what it will cost him for journeying and sojourn in Rome, and also what there is for him to see ; and if he desires to study the subject further, he is furnished with a serviceable bibliography. (We may remark that the correct title of Dean Merivale's book is not "History of Rome," but "History of the Romans under the Empire"; and further that what the chasm in the Forum received was not "the person most precious to the people," but the thing. M. Cortina asked "an ullum magis Romanum bonnm quam arma virtusque esset," and accordingly leapt into the gulf fully armed.)
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