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The Loeb Classical Library. (Heinemann and Harvard. nos. each.)

THERE is a touch of the heroic in the way this library continues to appear, shoring up the remains of classical antiquity at a time when the Romantic spirit is loose over Europe. The latest volumes to come out are Professor Waddell's translation of the works of Manetho and Professor Robbins' translation Of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, the bible of ancient and mediaeval astro- logers (No. 350) ; a volume of Archaic Inscriptions, which com- pletes Professor Warmington's translation of Remains of Old Latin (No. 359), and the third volume of the Roman Antiquates of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, translated by Dr. Ernest Cary (No. 357)-