ScaooL-Booxs.—Second Year Latin. Edited by James B Greenough and Benjamin
L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell.
• (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.)—We do not quite understand what Is meant by "Second Year." If it is that the scholar will be able by the end of his second year of learning to master the greater part of this volume we can but express our astonishment. How- ever, the book will be useful. It begins with some easy selections in which recourse has been had to modern Latinists as well as to classical authors. These are anecdotal and biographical, &c. And there is a section of poetry. These occupy about a hundred pages. Then comes a considerable portion of the "De Bob Galileo," with introduction, notes, &c. After this, again, we have a vocabulary.—Demonstrations in Greek Iambic Verse- By W. . H. D. Rouse, MA. (Cambridge University Press- 6s.)—We so thoroughly agree with Mr. Rouse's "firm con- viction that time spent on verse composition is not wasted, even if the pupil never writes a good copy," that we gladly mention this excellent manu al. Mr. Rouse shows in a most instructive manner how he does the work, bringing to bear upon it imagination, knowledge, and resource generally. lambic.s are, perhaps, on the whole, less attractive than Latin verse, but they test scholarship, at least in one definite direction, very completely .—The Prometheus Bound of Zschylus. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by IL Beckham, MA. Same, publisher).—The Prometheus has been edited several times for school use, and not unsatisfactorily. Mr. Rickham justifies his venture by bringing up his study both of the text and of the introduction to the latest date.—C. lieu Quasi* Ds Bello Gallic° FT., edited by E. S. Shuckburgh, M.A. (same publishers, is. 6d.), is intended for learners not far advanced. It supplies notes and a copious vocabulary ; all, in fact, that the boy is supposed to want, grammar excepted.—In the series of Arnold's French Reading Books" (E. Arnold) we have Tin Drama dens lee Airs, by Jules Verne, with Notes, &c., by J. Lloyd Jones ; and Pif Pof, by Edouard Laboulaye, with Notes by W. Mansfield Poole, M.A.
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