careful finger through the Greek texts, and the Greek texts in their latest recensions, marking every noticeable form, and checking by his own personal examination the dicta of other critics.

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* * The book is useful, indeed we may say indispensable, to scholars, in the widest sense of the word. It takes a larger range than its mere title would imply; and besides being a supplement to our best Lexicons, such as that of Liddell and Scott, contains touches of fine philology which would have delighted Porson and Elmsley."-Pall Mall Gazette. "Mr. Veitch has produced a book which is simply marvellous as a result of most extensive reading and scrupulous accuracy, combined with keen scholarship. For the Clarendon Press to head its series with this remarkable little book may be taken as a good omen for the classics in the University, which bears the reputation of upholding a style of scholarship that is rather broad than refined."-London Review.

"Je puis affirmer hardiment qu'il serait impossible de nommer un écrit mieux rédigé sous tous les rapports et témoignant de plus de science. M. Veitch a lu et annoté tous les auteurs grecs. Les verbes, rangés par ordre alphabétique, sont disséqués pour ainsi dire, et l'emploi de chaque temps est justifié par les prosateurs aussi bien que les poëtes. A chaque moment l'occasion se présente de contrôler les récensions des critiques modernes, d'expliquer quelque point de philologie, ou de rectifier quelque erreur. C'est ce que M. Veitch fait admirablement.”Courrier Anglais.

7. The Golden Treasury of Ancient Greek Poetry; being a Collection of the finest passages in the Greek Classic Poets, with Introductory Notices and Notes. By R. S. WRIGHT, M. A., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. (Ext. fcap. 8vo., cloth, price 88. 6d.)

"The introductions to the various periods of Greek literature are short essays full of spirit; condensed, yet clear; and a novelty which seems really useful, is a brief marginal analysis where the train of thought is obscure. The notes are a scholar's work, and shew a scholar's interest in his subject. The analyses of the specimen choruses from Eschylus and Sophocles, and the notes thereon, are excellent examples of short and pithy commentary."-London Review.

"One of the prettiest of the convenient 'Clarendon Press Series' is the 'Golden Treasury of Ancient Greek Poetry.' It is intended to bring together the choicest passages of all the Greek poets in a form convenient to the scholarly man who occasionally amuses his leisure hours with the classics. It is also fit for school use. The account of lyric poetry and of the gradual transition of the metres is excellent. Each poet has his date prefixed to the extracts, and every extract is headed by a short argument to show its connection, where such is at all needed. There are, besides, about two hundred pages of annotations, mainly very good. The selections are admirably made, and include many beautiful fragments and passages (among others the 'Swallow Song') that, being scattered through such authors as Athenæus, are unfamiliar to ordinary readers."-Nation (American).

"Les remarques présentées par notre commentateur sur les chœurs des poëtes tragiques et sur l'histoire et le développement de la poésie lyrique méritent une attention sérieuse. Somme toute, le Golden treasury of ancient Greek poetry est un livre extrêmement distingué et qu'on ne saurait trop recommander."—Courrier Anglais.

8. The Elements of Greek Accentuation (for

Schools): abridged from his larger work by H. W. CHANDLER, M.A., Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philo. sophy, Oxford. (Ext. fcap. 8vo., cloth, price 2s. 6d.)

9. Sophocles. Oedipus Rex, Dindorf's Text,

with English Notes by the Ven. Archdeacon BASIL JONES, M.A., formerly Fellow of University College. (Ext. fcap. 8vo., cloth, price 18. 6d.)

10. Passages for Translation into Latin. For the use of Passmen and others. Selected by J. Y. SARGENT, M.A., Tutor, and formerly Fellow of Magdalen College. Second Edition. (Ext. fcap. 8vo., cloth, price 2s. 6d.)

II. The Elements of Deductive Logic, designed mainly for the use of Junior Students in the Universities. By the Rev. T. FOWLER, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln College, Oxford. Second Edition, with a Collection of Examination Papers on the subject. (Ext. fcap. 8vo., cloth, price 38. 6d.) "We think such a manual is very opportune. Oxford requires the study of a certain amount of logic in the academical course, but hitherto, Aldrich's Manual, in its strange Latin and with its inconsistent terminology, has been the only text-book upon which students commence their acquaintance with the science of logic. Mr. Fowler's little work is not intended to be a substitute for more advanced treatises, but rather to put the general reader in possession of an outline of the science of logic, which will enable him to pursue the subject intelligently for himself on a more complete scale. It is a great thing to say of a manual of logic that it is not repulsive on first perusal, and a still higher praise to be able to describe it as not unattractive. Now, setting aside the necessary technicalities and mechanical details that must occur in every work on logic, we think this short treatise will be read with pleasure; partly owing to a judicious arrangement of the subject into short chapters and paragraphs, and not less from the clearness and freshness of the style. It is a novel plan to add at the end of the chapters, in the form of a note, a brief statement of opinions differing from the views given in the text, with references to the various works where these opinions may be examined. In a science like logic, in which doctors have agreed to disagree, there is a pleasant honesty in this which gives us confidence in our guide."-London Review.

"Books like Mr. Fowler's will do much to popularise the study of logic."-Scotsman.

12. Specimens of Early English; being a Series of Extracts from the most important English Authors, Chronologically arranged, illustrative of the progress of the English Language and its Dialectic varieties, from A.D. 1250 to A.D. 1400. With Grammatical Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. By R. MORRIS, Esq., Editor of "The Story of Genesis and Exodus," &c. (Ext. fcap. 8vo., cloth, price 78. 6d.)

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Few have done so much with such success as Mr. Morris, whose volume is not only a grammar, but a collection of well-selected reading and a dictionary, all in one. It will surprise some, perhaps, if we say that they who cannot read this book are ignorant of English, but the fact is incontrovertible nevertheless, and the task of mastering their own language is rendered easy by the clearness, good taste, and judg. ment of this accomplished author.”—Athenæum.

"A book of this kind has long been needed for our colleges and higher schools, and even advanced students have never before had the results of late study on the earlier English writers thus compactly set forth. Mr. Morris has noted and classified with great care the specialties of the early dialects, arranging them under the three heads of Northern, Midland, and Southern. The outlines of the Early English grammar are, however, based on the Southern dialect only. To each declension and conjugation is added the Anglo-Saxon one from which it was degraded, so that its origin is clearly seen. Mr. Morris' specimens include passages from every important work of the period, and are very fully and correctly annotated, with a complete glossary."Nation (American).

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Anything like an acquaintance with what has been called the 'Old English period' of our literature was impossible to ordinary readers. The present volume is meant to supply this defect, and it could not have been better adapted to the object in view. Instead of the necessarily brief extracts in books of criticism, the student of the English language is here supplied with specimens extending from 9 to 42 pages of all the important English authors of the period; and these cannot fail to familiarize him with the grammar, dialects, and vocabulary of the early stages of our language in a manner which no amount of descriptive criticism can equal. The grammatical introduction-a valuable treatise of itself—and the carefully compiled notes and glossary contain everything necessary to enable the student to read the most difficult passages with pleasure and profit.' On many grounds we think the Oxford press has done a great service to the cause of education by the issue of this volume-of such education as may be advantageously pursued by young and old of every class, who may thus spend many a pleasant half hour in learning what Englishmen talked about and how they did it nearly six hundred years ago."-Times of India.

13. Spenser's Faery Queene. Book I. Designed chiefly for the use of Schools. With Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. By the Rev. G. W. KITCHIN, M.A., Whitehall Preacher; formerly Censor of Christ Church. (Ext. fcap. 8vo., cloth, price 28. 6d.)

“The present editor has done his work, such as it is, in the most commendable manner, and we can even say that his numerous, though concise, notes may be found very interesting and instructive by those of us who have already grown familiar with the Faery Queene by any ordinary and somewhat irregular course of reading. His etymological inquiries are often completed and verified by all the resources that modern scholarship supplies, though we must deem him to have reposed too much confidence in Horne Tooke's system, where he has treated the pronoun 'it' as a contraction of hight,' connected with the German heissen.' Otherwise he is well informed on most of the needful points, and skilful in condensing his information, and his literary references and parallels are ample and, in general, very striking,"-Spectator.

"Le Spencer vient de paraître; Faery Queene. Il eût été impossible de confier ce travail à un critique plus capable. Dans une préface très-intéressante et très-bien écrite, M. Kitchin explique pourquoi jusqu'à ces derniers temps Spencer a été comparativement négligé."Courrier Anglais.

May we be allowed to press upon our readers this admirable educational edition? * * * * Through Spenser, properly worked upon the principles indicated by the philological notes, boys would get quickly a large insight into language, as language."-Literary Churchman. 14. Chaucer. The Prologue to the Canterbury

Tales; The Knightes Tale; The Nonne Prest his Tale. Edited by R. MORRIS, Editor for the Early English Text Society, &c. &c. (Ext. fcap. 8vo., cloth, price 2s. 6d.)

15. Hooker.

Ecclesiastical Polity, Book I.

Edited by the Rev. R. W. CHURCH, M. A., Rector of Whatley; formerly Fellow of Oriel College. (Ext. fcap. 8vo., cloth, price 28.)

16. French Classics: Vol. I. containing Cor

neille's Cinna, and Molière's Les Femmes Savantes. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by GUSTAVE MASSON, B.A., Univ. Gallic., Assistant Master in Harrow School. (Ext. fcap. 8vo., cloth, price 28. 6d.)

"We can speak highly of this little volume."-Educational Times. "This little work is a model of a text-book."-The Museum.

17.

Selections from the Correspondence of Madame de Sévigné and her chief contemporaries. Intended more especially for girls' schools. (Ext. fcap. 8vo., cloth, price 3s.)

In course of Preparation.

I. CLASSICS.

1. Selections from the less known Latin Poets. By the Rev. NORTH PINDER, M.A., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. [In the Press. 2. Ovid. Selections for the use of Schools. Being a new edition of the Selection made by the late Professor Ramsay. Edited by G. G. RAMSAY, M.A., The College, Glasgow.

[Nearly ready.

3. Livy I-X. By J. R. SEELEY, M.A., Fellow of

Christ's College, Cambridge; Professor of Latin, University
College, London. Also a small edition for Schools.

[In the Press. 4. Cicero. The Philippic Orations. By the Rev. J. R. KING, M.A., formerly Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford. [In the Press. 5. Cornelius Nepos (for Schools). With English Notes, by OSCAR BROWNING, M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Assistant Master at Eton College. [In the Press.

6. Sophocles. By the Rev. LEWIS CAMPBELL, M.A., Professor of Greek at St. Andrews, formerly Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.

7. Homer, Iliad. By D. B. MONRO, M.A., Fellow

and Tutor of Oriel College, Oxford.

8. Homer, Odyssey I-XII. By the Rev. W. W. MERRY, Fellow and Lecturer of Lincoln College, Oxford; and the late Rev. J. RIDDELL, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College. By ROBINSON ELLIS, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.

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10. A Golden Treasury of Greek Prose, being a collection of the finest passages in the principal Greek Prose Writers, with Introductory Notices and Notes. By R. S. WRIGHT, M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and J. E. L. SHADWELL, B.A., Student of Christ Church.