Senoot - Boons. — Selections from the Poems of Ovid. Edited by Charles Wesley
Bain. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Professor Bain is beyond doubt quite right in his contention that the simplicity of Ovid makes him preferable to Virgil for beginners. The difficulty is in the selection. The "Heroides " used to be a favourite text-book ; but they are sentimental, when they are not worse, and quite unsuited for the young. We cannot say that Professor Bain has altogether overcome the difficulty. The story of Apollo and Daphne, for instance, is not edifying. We should be inelined rigidly to. exclude all .love stories from a selection, There would be plenty eft; nearly all the " Tristia-" and the "EPistolae ex Ponto," among other things. This edition is sup- plied with pictures, with short notes, and with a vocabulary, this last being necessitated, we suppose, by the crowded condition of the present-day tinie-table.—The Anabasis of Xenophon, Book I. Edited by C. E. Brownxigg, M.A. (Meade and Son. is. 6d.)-Mr. Brownrigg furnishes his edition with an instructive introduction, in which we may specify a good note on Xenophon's style. The Attico-phobia of Xenophon, as it may be called, is duly insisted on. Here also we have a vocabulary.—In the "Picture Shakespeare" (same pub- lishers, Is.) we have Hamlet. It is substantially a reproduction, with a certain amount of revision, of the "Junior School Shake- spesze."—Froin the same publishers we have also received A Geography of Egypt and the Anglo - Egyptian Sudan, by W. IL Mardon (2s.) This is a welcome addition to our geographical text- books, and a proof of the development of the Imperial spirit. Mr. Mardon is, we see, ateacher in the Tewfikieh Training College.
The Complete History Readers. No. V. (Same publishers. Is. 6d.)- The stories, which take in the whole period from Caesar to the present day, are illustrated by pictures in colours. The volume is furnished with a useful summary.—Of text-books for the teaching of French we have from the same publishers, Colombct, by Prosper Merimee, edited by E. T. Schoedelin, B.A. (1s. 6d.)-we must repeat the criticism, often made before on text-books of this kind, that the help is not always given on sound principles -and A. Skeleton French Gram- mar, by H. G. Atkins, M.A. (1s. 6d.), giving, as the author explains, the "irreducible minimum," and intended for the help of those Who learn the ce by plunging at once into a French book. In the series of " Mackie's Little French Classics," Poems for ReCiiiiiion, edited by Louis A. Barre, B.A.; MoliZre's Le Bourgeois Gotttilhornme, edited by Maiirice A. Gerothwohl, B.Phil. (8d.); and Mule de Pape, by Alphonse Daudet, edited by II. W. Preston, (4d.)—In "Blackie's Little German Classics," Select Ballads, edited by Frieda Weekky ; Dic Harzreisc, von Heinrich Heine, adapted and edited by W. Gray E theridge,11. A. ; and The Nieb dung en Lied, Part I., edited by II. B. Cotterill, M.A.—Muret-Sanders Pocket Dictionary of the English. and German Languages. (H. Gravel and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Practical Bookkeeping for Commercial Classes. By Walter Grierson, (Mackie and Son. Is. 6d.)
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