PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION. Classical Association : Proceedings, Volume
X. (John Murray. 2s. 6d. net.)—The new volume contains a report of the general meeting held at the beginning of January,
Among the many interesting papers printed we may mention the presidential address, an eloquent appeal by the Master of Trinity in favour of using translations from the classics for educational purposes. Dr. Butler begins by submitting as an axiom " that the teaching of the classical languages should be limited to those who are able to profit by it." But he goes on to argue that those who are being educated on the "modern sides" of schools can derive very great benefits from studying the classics in the many excellent trans- lations that are available in English. "Is it not to be hoped," he asks, "that the modern director of studies, knowing in his heart the many dry places and the frequently lax organization of his loosely compacted empire, and knowing also that the grand literatures of Greece and Rome possess a force, a richness, a purity, a reserve, a ' tender grace,' a bracing and regenerating tonic that no cultured spirit should either lack or ignore, shall boldly take translations in his hand, and proclaim, with the high-stepping egotism of a Canning, 'I called into existence the Old World to redress the balance of the New' ? " We may also refer to a paper by M. A. Ailinger, proposing the revival of the use of Latin as a universal language.
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