fully claimed for that book. The lectures on Roman Imperialism, and those on Milton's Political Opinions and Milton's Poetry, bring out views which have at least the merit of novelty, and will be likely to stimulate the reader to trains of thought which cannot be pursued without profit. The same may be said, with perhaps stronger emphasis, of the essay on the Church as a Teacher of Morality.

Two of the essays that on Liberal Education in Universities, and that on English in Schools - touch on certain interesting educational questions. In the former, we understand Professor Seeley to take pretty strong ground against the marking system in colleges. His reasoning on this subject fails to carry with it our convictions. A young man of vigorous intellect and eager thirst for knowledge need not study any the less faithfully and successfully because his standing as a scholar is recorded from day to day; while, on the other hand, a youth of less intellectual strength and of weaker will may be led by such a stimulus to study with an energy which he would not otherwise show. The other essay, on English in Schools, is still less satisfactory. No judicious educators, in this country, certainly, would have boys give up the study of Latin at the age of sixteen. To use our author's own illustration: Either not start for Cambridge, or else go clear there. The plan recommended by Professor Seeley, of substituting the study of the English language for that of Latin in boyhood, strikes us as altogether injudicious. A boy can study English after he has studied Latin much more advantageously than before.

THE METAPHORS OF ST. PAUL. By John S. Howson, D.D., Dean of Chester. Second edition. 16mo. pp. 176. London: Strahan and Co.

1869.

Dr. Howson is well known to our readers as "joint author of The Life and Epistles of St. Paul." The present volume is beautifully printed, and is written in a very perspicuous and agreeable style. It explains the metaphors which Paul draws from the Roman soldiers, the classical architecture, the ancient agriculture, and the Greek games. It is well adapted to engage the attention of the higher classes in our Sabbath-schools, as well as that of clergymen and scholars. We are happy to learn that it is soon to be republished by the American Tract Society. That society has already republished a 16mo. volume containing 304 pages, and entitled, Scenes from the Life of St. Paul, and their Religious Lessons, by the Rev. J. S. Howson, D.D. It also intends to republish another work which is from the pen of the same learned author, and is entitled "The Companions of St. Paul." It is well deserving of an extended circulation. These three volumes will, we trust, soon be for sale at the Depository of the Society, No. 28 Cornhill, Boston.

M. TULLII CICERONIS CATO MAJOR DE SENECTUTE, LAELIUS DE AMICITIA. With Explanatory Notes. By E. P. Crowell, Moore Professor of Latin, and H. B. Richardson, Instructor in Latin, in Amherst College. 16mo. pp. 171. Philadelphia: Eldredge and Brother. 1872. This is one of the volumes belonging to the Classical Series edited by Thomas Chase, A. M., Professor of Classical Literature in Haverford College, Penn., and George Stuart, A. M., Professor of the Latin Language in the Central High School, Philadelphia. They have already issued the following volumes: Cæsar's Commentaries, with Notes, Lexicon, etc.; First Six Books of Virgil's Eneid; Sallust's Catiline and Jugurthine War; Virgil's Eneid, with Notes, etc.; Cicero's Select Orations; Horace's Odes, Satires, and Epistles, and Cicero De Senectute et De Amicitia. "The first three of these volumes, viz. Cæsar's Commentaries, First Six Books of Virgil's Eneid, and Sallust's Catiline, etc., contain Vocabularies; the remaining volumes do not." The same general editors intend to publish soon an edition of Cæsar's Select Orations, with a Vocabulary; and in the spring of 1872 an edition of Livy, and also of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics. The present edition of Cicero de Senectute and de Amicitia is well edited. The Notes are precise, neither too full nor too meagre. The text is that of Baiter, and has been carefully compared with the Annotatio Critica in the Tauchnitz series of Cicero's Works; also with the text of Orelli's edition revised by Hahn. He must be a dull scholar whose enthusiasm is not enkindled by such Introductions and Notes as are contained in this volume.

CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES ON THE GALLIC WAR. With Explanatory Notes, a Copious Dictionary, and a Map of Gaul. By Albert Harkness, LL.D. 12mo. pp. 377. New York: Appleton and Co. 1870. The improvement in classical text-books within a few years has been remarkable. The announcements of new editions of grammars and commentaries upon familiar authors are frequent. Among the latter is Professor Harkness's edition of that sterling drill-book, Caesar's Commentaries. This book is the second in a series which includes several authors; the first being a Latin Reader. The text is in a large, clear type, and the book is of convenient size. The notes are clear, numerous, and not too technical. Though we cannot agree with the editor in every particular, the pupil by a judicious use of them will be aided sufficiently, and will gain much knowledge of pure Latin idioms. Their aim seems to have been not simply to translate for the pupil, but to place him in a position where he can fully appreciate the whole meaning of the author.

We are sorry to see a special lexicon; though we have never seen a better one than this. It reflects great credit upon the compiler, Mr. Gay, of the Boston Latin school as a patient, critical, and faithful scholar.

MEMOIR OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF REV. LEWIS WARNER GREEN, D.D.; with a Selection from his Sermons. By LeRoy J. Halsey, D.D., Professor in the Theological Seminary of the Northwest. 12mo. pp. 502. New York: Charles Scribner and Co. 1871.

Dr. Green was born January 28, 1806, near the town of Danville, in Kentucky; was successively Professor of Belles Lettres and Political Economy in Centre College, Danville, Kentucky; Professor of Oriental and Biblical Literature in the Theological Seminary at South Hanover, Indiana; Vice-President of Centre College; Professor of Oriental Literature and Biblical Criticism in the Theological Seminary at Alleghany; Pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, in Baltimore; President of Hampden-Sidney College; President of Transylvania College; President of Centre College. He died May 26, 1863, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. Of his punctuality in the performance of his professional duties, the following incident is related: "On one occasion, having a distance of several miles to go, and having been necessarily detained, he found he had barely time, though on horseback, to reach the college before his hour of recitation. Before starting, he had loosely slipped forty dollars into his pocket. On nearing the place, he discovered that in his rapid ride the money had dropped out, and he knew that it must be lying somewhere on the public road; but, rather than go back, and be behind time with his class, he determined to meet them promptly at the hour, go on with his recitation, and look for the money afterward. When he returned, it was gone; but he felt that punctuality was worth more than forty dollars, and he could better afford to lose the money than to lose his prestige of professional promptness."-Memoir, p. 17, 18.

Dr. Green was a remarkably fluent orator. In early life, however, he stammered painfully. "When excited by debate in the rival societies at school or college," says his biographer, "the hesitation would disappear, and his fluency on such occasions is said to have been remarkable. But the slightest confusion or embarrassment would almost deprive him of the power of speech. His first public effort is said to have been painful in the extreme, both to himself and to the friendly audience he attempted to address. He rushed from the house in an agony of shame; and few who witnessed that painful exhibition were so sanguine as to hope that those stammering lips would yet open in streams of fervid eloquence. Distressed, but not disheartened, by this mortifying failure, he persevered until his efforts at elocution were crowned with complete success. But he was ever after extremely sensitive on the subject, so much so that no member of his immediate family ever ventured an allusion to it."Memoir, p. 12.

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