Ebers, and a graceful frontispiece by Mr. Alma
Tadema.

MESSRS. FREDERICK WARNE & Co. have issued an English edition of Ben-Hur; or, the Days of the Messiah, by Lew. Wallace, which happens to have been reviewed in the ACADEMY

the very next week-April 16, 1881-when it appeared (if we remember rightly) in its original

American dress.

FROM Messrs. Macmillan comes a new edition of Alice Learmont, by the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman;" and from Messrs. Smith, Elder, & Co. no less than four new editions of novels-Cranford, and other Tales, by Mrs. Gaskell; No New Thing, by W. E. Norris; Ben Milner's Wooing, by Holme Lee; and Mrs. Geoffrey, by the Author of " Phyllis.'

NOTES AND NEWS. MR. SWINBURNE contributes to the July number of the Nineteenth Century a ballade called " On a Country Road."

MR. HERBERT SPENCER'S article in the Contemporary will be entitled "The Great Political Superstition."

WE understand that Lady Bloomfield is engaged in editing the letters of the first Lord Bloomfield written to his wife from the Court of Sweden, where he was Minister. They contain a good deal about Bernadotte, and are otherwise interesting. Messrs. Chapman & Hall will be the publishers.

MESSRS. CASSELL & Co. have been entrusted by the Corporation of London with the publication of a volume entitled London's Roll of Fame, consisting of extracts from official documents connected with the presentation of the honorary freedom of the City, or congratulatory addresses to distinguished persons for the past century and a-quarter. work, which will be illustrated with portraits and other engravings, will be ready next

month.

The

THE following volumes are announced as in the press for the "Parchment Library":— English Sacred Lyrics; Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses, edited by Mr. E. W. Gosse; Milton's Poetical Works, in two volumes; Selections from Swift's Works, edited by Mr. Stanley LanePoole; and Irish Lyrics, edited by Mr. Justin McCarthy. Somewhat later will come a volume of Selections from Coleridge's Prose Writings, edited by Mr. T. Hall Caine.

A NEW novel, entitled The Counter of this World, by Lilias Wasserman and Isabella Weddle, will shortly be published by Messrs. Hurst & Blackett, in three volumes.

Travels in Search of a Settler's Guide Book in America and Canada is the title of a new work by Mr. G. J. Holyoake, to be published shortly by Messrs. Trübner.

MP. ALEXANDER GARDNER, of Paisley, is projecting a series of books under the title of The Antiquarian Library," of which Mr. William Andrews, secretary of the Hull Literary Club, will write four volumes. The first will be entitled Gibbet Lore; the next, called Obsolete Punishments, will give an historical account of the ducking stool, brank, jougs, pillory, stocks, drunkard's cloak, repentance stool, whipping stool, public penance, &c.; the third will furnish a popular History of Bells; and the fourth is to be entitled Wells: their History, Legends, Superstitions, Folk-lore, and Poetry. Numerous illustrations will be included.

MR. GARDNER is also about to publish a second edition of Rambling Sketches in the Far North, by Mr. R. M. Fergusson. of which the volume is composed originally The articles appeared in the Fifeshire Journal.

MESSRS. SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & Co. have just issued a reprint of Hamlet from the First Folio of 1623, retaining the spelling, initial capitals, and italics. The price is only eighteenpence, for a convenient and handsome small quarto of 148 pages. It is intended to issue another play every month until the whole has been reprinted.

MR. WILLIAM M'DOWALL has commenced

in the Dumfries and Galloway Standard a
weekly column dealing with local history,
antiquities, biography, &c.,, under the head-
ing of "Auld Lang Syne." He has nearly
ready for the press a volume on Lincluden
Abbey, which was built about the middle of
the twelfth century, and is now a picturesque
ruin; it was often visited by Burns, and here
he composed several of his most popular poems.
A new and enlarged edition of Mr. M'Dowall's
Burns in Dumfriesshire has recently been issued.
THE members of the Harleian Society have
received this week the Visitation of London,
1633-34, vol. ii., edited by Dr. J. J. Howard.
by Sir John Maclean and Mr. W. C. Heane,
The Visitation of Gloucestershire in 1623, edited
will also be ready for members this year; like-
wise vol. i. of the Registers of St. James, Clerken-
well, edited by Mr. Robert Hovenden.

Military Magazine, which is to be published on
THE first number of the Illustrated Naval and
July 1, will contain articles by Admiral Sir
George' Elliot, Capt. Berkeley, Mr. Lynal
Thomas, Col. Brackenbury, and Majors Hutton
and Elliott; and illustrations by Messrs.
Linley Sambourne, R. Caton Woodville, W. H.
Overend, and Rudolf Blind.

will be ready next week, Mr. John A. C. Vin-
To the July issue of the Genealogist, which
cent contributes two papers of interest-one on
Wanley's Harleian Journal," the other a
"Calendar of Heirs," compiled from the
Bond concludes his criticism of Mr. Pym
Edward II. Inquisitions post mortem; Mr. T.
Yeatman's History of the House of Arundel; and
Sir Bernard Burke remarks most favourably on

Mr. Vincent's Queen Elizabeth at Helmingham.
Among the other articles are "Sir Francis
Knollys," by the Rev. M. T. Pearman; "Oliver
Cromwell's Descent from the Steward Family,"
by Mr. Walter Rye; the "Falkener Family,"
with a large chart pedigree; and a very curious
"Diary of Travel in 1647-8."

Mr. C. V. Boys, Prof. Fleeming Jenkin, Mr. I.
Probert, Mr. H. H. Johnston, Prof. Silvanus P.
Thompson, Mr. Edward C. Stanford, Mr. W.
Seton-Karr, and Mr. C. Purdon Clarke.

of Turguenev is to be published at St. Peters-
A COPIOUS selection from the correspondence
burg by the Russian Society for Self-help

among Men of Letters.

literary weekly, à propos of the publication of Heine's Memoirs in the Gartenlaube, and the editor's assertion that these are the only genuine memoirs the world is likely to see, book purporting to be written by a lady, and says that many years ago he came across a entitled Heinrich Heine's First Love, in which the whole story of Sephchen, the witch of Goch, the nocturnal synod of the high-priests of the sharp sword, &c., was related in almost the same words as in the recently published Memoirs.

A WRITER in De Portefeuille, an Amsterdam

THAT indefatigable worker, M. Paul Sébillot, has just published, in the series of "La France selection of the best French folk-lore tales, under merveilleuse et légendaire" (Paris: Cerf), a the title of Contes des Provinces de France. The volume is without notes.

Several of the tales

are printed for the first time in a French dress, thus, we think, be the most generally popular and a few are entirely inédits. The work will of all that this author has given us, for it presents the foreigner who is not a specialist with a sufficient sample of French folk-lore legend.

forth an appeal for the formation of a BascoTHE Euskal-Erria of San Sebastian puts Navarrese Folk-Lore Society, and offers its own pages as the organ for publication.

del Ampurdan, by Don José Pella y Forgas. The WE have received tomo iii. of the Historia photograph is of the town of Rosas; the other illustrations are quite equal in execution and in treated is that of Gallic and Roman rule and utility to those of former numbers. The period civilisation.

Polish amounts to 230, of which 106 are pubTHE total number of periodicals printed in lished in Austria, 81 in Russia (including Poland proper), 35 in Prussia, 5 in America, 2 in Switzerland, and 1 at Paris.

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WE have omitted to notice before the useful Supplement for 1884 to Meyer's Konversations prepared a careful inventory of the more im-Danish literature, Darwinism, the German THE Town Council of Edinburgh has had Lexikon, which contains interesting articles on portant charters and documents belonging to and notices of the two English writers Canon the city, with a view to their deposit for safe Dixon and Mr. G. M. Fenn, are from the pen empire, &c. English Literature in 1882-83," keeping in the Register House. They number 106 in all, the earliest being a charter of David of Dr. Eug. Oswald, long a resident in this I., circ. 1143, and the next a charter of William country. We here get drawn together within the Lion, circ. 1171. the compass of eight pages all the principal two years, classified according to poetry, threads of English literary work for the past drama, fiction, criticism, and literary history, biography, history of various sorts, travels, miscellaneous, and translations. ising each author or work by a defining word synopsis such as we should hardly find elseor link, Dr. Oswald has provided a valuable where.

THROUGH the courtesy of the Council of
the Surtees Society several volumes of its
publications have been presented to the
Archiepiscopal Library, Lambeth Palace. The
recent addition of modern ecclesiastical and
historical works considerably enhances the
utility of this collection to those who are
in the diocese of Canterbury, and in the
entitled to borrow-residents, clerical and lay,
parishes of Lambeth, Southwark, and West-
to 5 p.m. in the summer, Saturdays excepted.
minster. The library is open from 10 a.m.

will be held on Monday next, June 30, at 8
THE annual meeting of the Victoria Institute
p.m., in the Society of Arts' House. Prof.
Dabney, of the United States, will deliver an
address, with the Earl of Shaftesbury in the
chair.

THE Council of the Society of Arts has
of papers during the session 1883-84:-The
awarded silver medals to the following readers
Marquis of Lorne, the Rev. J. A. Rivington,

Character

THE author of The First and Second Battles of Newbury (Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.), of which a new edition was announced in the ACADEMY of last week, is Mr. Walter Money, of Newbury.

AMERICAN JOTTINGS.

THE Americans are going to send an archaeo-
logical expedition to excavate in Mesopotamia,
under the leadership of Dr. William Hayes
be defrayed by a single individual.
Ward, of the Independent. The entire cost will

PROF. JEBB has gone to America to deliver

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the annual Phi Beta Kappa oration at Harvard. He has taken as his subject "Ancient Organs of Public Opinion," meaning the chief agencies which in ancient Greece and Rome performed some of the functions of the modern newspaper press.

MR. E. W. GOSSE will pay a visit to America this winter, and give lectures at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and the Lowell Institute, Boston.

THE annual meeting of the American Library Association will be held this year at Toronto from Wednesday, September 3, to Saturday, September 6, thus immediately following the meeting of the British Association at Montreal, The steamship companies allow special rates to the English delegates, for whom it is hoped that the total expense will not exceed £60. It is proposed that Sunday, September 7, shall be spent at Niagara; and excursions by rail are being planned for the following days.

MR. EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN AND MISS

ELLEN M. HUTCHINSON have compiled a Library of American Literature, in ten volumes, consisting of selections from American authors from the earliest settlement down to the present

time.

THE last number of the Library Journal (vol. ix., No. 5) prints a letter from Mr. S. S. Green, giving an account of his experience of the Sunday opening of the Worcester Public Library. This was the first public library in New England to be opened on Sunday, and the "experiment" has now lasted for ten years with complete success, the average number of readers being nearly three thousand. It has been found that the Sunday readers "are mainly persons who are engaged in exacting avocations during the week, and who consequently have little time or strength for reading or study on secular days or evenings, or persons who live at a distance from the library building. They are largely, too, men who do not belong to churches, and men without quiet, comfortable homes, and without books and magazines."

Two little church-mice!
Some good folk they laught-
"Going to be married!
Why, they must be daft!"
Two little church-mice!

Some good folk they sighed-
"Not a rap to bless them with!
How will they provide,

"Two little church-mice,

For servants, house, and dress? Isn't it a painful thing?

Quite immoral? Yes.

"Two little church-mice,

With nought but health and brains
In the way of capital-

Fools for their pains!
"Two little church-mice!
Much they know about
All the troubles of the world,
Sooth, a mighty rout!
"Two little church-mice
Tempting Providence!
Won't they have a time of it,
Learning common-sense!
"Two little church-mice!

Won't they find it sweet-
Bread and cheese for working-days,
Beef for Sunday treat!"
Two little church-mice-

All folk know it's nice,
When young folk from older folk
Meekly take advice.

But these little church-mice,
Very bad of them,
Gaed their ain gait quietly,
And let who will condemn.

For the two little church-mice
Found it less a bother

To do without all sorts of things
Than do without each other.
The two little church-mice,

WE have on our table:-Wiclif and Hus, from the German of Dr. Johann Loserth, Translated by the Rev. M. J. Evans (Hodder & Stoughton); John Wiclif: Patriot and Reformer, Life and Writings, by Rudolph Buddensieg, Quincentenary Edition (Fisher Unwin); John Wiclif : his Life, Times, and Teaching, by the Rev. A. R. Pennington (S. P. C. K.); Life of John Wycliffe, by Frederic D. Matthew (S. P. C. K.); Miscellaneous Essays, Second Series, by W. Ŕ. Greg (Trübner); Railway Rates and Radical Rule, by J. Buckingham Pope (Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.); Hunt-Room Stories and Yachting Yarns, by the Author of "Across Country,' with Illustrations by Edgar Giberne (Chapby Henry Richard (James Clarke); Biographies man & Hall); Letters and Essays on Wales, field, Series I. and II. (J. & R. Maxwell); of Celebrities for the People, by Frank BanRailway Adventures and Anecdotes, Edited by Richard Pike (Hamilton, Adams, & Co.); Darkness and Dawn, the Peaceful Birth of a New Age (Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.); On Laodiceans, and other Essays, by R. M. Eyton (Griffith & Farran); What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, by Prof. William Graham Sumner (Trübner); The Objectivity of Truth, by George J. Stokes (Williams & Norgate); Mr. Spencer's Data of Ethics, by Malcolm Guthrie (The Modern Press); Metaphysica Nova et Vetustà: a Return to Dualism, by "Scotus worth Birthday Book, Edited by Adelaide and Novanticus" (Williams & Norgate); The WordsViolet Wordsworth (Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.); Higher than the Church: a Tale of the Olden Time, Adapted from the German of Wilhelmine von Hillern, by M. F. P. F-G. (Trübner); Cabal and Love, Translated from the German of F. von Schiller, by T. C. Wilkinson (Sonnenschein); Selim's Progress: a Tale of Hindu Muhammadan Life (Religious Tract Society); An Innocent, by Sidney Mary Sitwell (S. P. C. K.); Only a Flower-Girl, and other Tales, by the Author of "My Neighbour Nellie," Illustrated by Hal Ludlow and other sub-artists ("Fun" Office); The Fortunes of Rachel, by Edward Everett Hale (Bordon Hunt); Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Set to Music, by Annie Armstrong, Words by Jessie Armstrong (Sonnenschein); The Little Flower-Girl, and other Stories in Verse, Told for Children by "Robin (Sonnenschein); The English in Egypt: England and the Mahdi, Arabi and the Suez Canal, by Col. Hennebert, Translated by Bernard Pauncefote (W. H. Allen); The Art of Attack Le Livre, which for some months has had a and Defence, Illustrated with Sixty-three Posi- remarkable succession of articles of purely tions, by Major W. J. Elliott (Dean); Con-literary interest, is, for June, rather more fessions of an English Huschish Eater (George miscellaneous in character. The best paper is Redway); Holy Blue! by Alphonse de Florian, Traduced into the English by himself, with an Introduction by James Millington (Field & Tuer); Student Life at Edinburgh University, by Norman Fraser (Paisley: Parlane); The Kittlegairy Vacancy; or, a New Way of getting Rid of Old Ministers, by John Plenderleith (Edinburgh: Gemmell); Commentaries on Law, by Francis Wharton (Philadelphia: Kay; London: Sampson Low); Memorie and Rime, by Joaquin Miller (New York: Funk & Wagnalls); Twelve Months in an English Prison, by Susan Willis Fletcher (Boston, U.S.: Lee & Shepard; London: Trübner); What Shall we do with our Daughters? by Mary A. Livermore (Boston, U.S.: Lee & Shepard; London: Trübner); Above the Grave of John Odenswurge, by J. Dunbar Hylton (New York Challen); &e., &c,

The reading-rooms are open on Sunday from 2 to 9 p.m., and are in charge of two ladies, who are not employed in the library on weekdays.

THERE seems no longer room to doubt that the Dorsheimer Copyright Bill will be merged beneath the excitement of the Presidential election; even the literary journals seem to have lost their interest in it. As an example of what an average "Congressman thinks, the following letter from a member for New York is worth attention:

"I am in favour of protecting authors, whether foreign or American, by copyright, so far as this can be justly done consistently with the interests of the people of this country; but I doubt very much whether an author resident in a dukedom or other unimportant foreign country should be afforded the protection of the courts of this great country in exchange, upon equal terms, for similar rights to be given to American authors in countries of so much less importance and extent. In this country, unlike most others, fortunately, labouring men and their families all read; and it is certainly for the interest of the people that good books be brought within their reach at a reasonable price, and that no policy should be supported by this government which will exclude or prevent this. In my judgment, the subject requires very careful consideration; more so than I have thus far been able to give to it. I do not think that foreign authors, who generally do not write much in advance of the thought of the world, should receive a higher degree of protection, or for a longer period, than is afforded to that class of our own citizens who, by their inventions, enlarge the boundaries of, or create new, human At the present time the country seems bent upon destroying, or reducing to the minimum, the

arts.

In rain as well as sun,
Stick to text which sayeth Two
Are better than is one.

And the two little church-mice
Find, whate'er befall,
What poets call the cruel world
Is not so bad at all.
Two little church-mice-
What about them? oh!
They are happy little mice,
That is all I know.

EMILY H. HICKEY.

MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS.

M. Derome's "Discrédit des Livres écrits en latin," which is spiritedly written, and (though the barbarous notions of which he complains do not apply quite so much to England as to France) is a great deal too true of both countries. Incidentally, M. Derome smites bibliophiles pretty sharply, and not undeservedly, for their slavish following of fashion, and their habit of estimating books by the market value only in other cases besides that of the classics. Some "Notes on Philhellenic Bibliography," and an account of the tribulations of Girouard the bookseller during the Terror, are more curious than interesting. But the number is well illustrated with a photogravure of a wonderful binding in silver-gilt repoussé, and with two reproductions of Revolution gravings, representing, one the taking of the Bastille, the other the guillotine,

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Coverdale, as Mr. Herford observes, was kommen her almost devoid of the lyric faculty;" his translations are generally very prosaic. This, I take it, is the main reason why his book never got hold of his countrymen or passed through more than one edition. The Scotch Book was not

prepared for chaff from the utilitarian point of
view beyond what I had experienced, and only
afraid that I should have the worst of it at the
hands of so witty a people as the English. But
what I cannot understand is the difficulty which
so many of my English critics tell me that they
find in understanding what I mean by natural
or absolute law. There are 176 verses in the
119th Psalm, and in every one of these the
word "law," or what are there its equivalents,
"statutes, 99.66 'commandments," " testimonies,"
and the like, occur always two and often three
times. Do my critics suppose that these ex-
pressions have reference to Jewish ceremonial
observances regarding the blood of bulls and
goats, or that they have a prophetic reference
to British Acts of Parliament? If not, what
meaning can they have except that which I, in
common with all European jurists, except
English utilitarians, have attached to the term
"natural law" since the days of the Stoics?
J. LORIMER.

In connexion with the present revival of enthusiasm for the great English Reformer, the following passage from the work above referred to will be read with interest :

"In this district, if anywhere, lingers the genuine old language of the time of Wycliffe. We have heard it remarked by a gentleman that he once read aloud to an old woman in the parish of Wycliffe, utterly uneducated, a chapter from John Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament; and, perhaps because entirely uninformed, she under stood, without question, every word as he proceeded, and expressed her delight at hearing the tongue in which she was nurtured read from a printed book. She said it was universal in her younger days, 'before folks became so fine.'"'

APPOINTMENTS FOR NEXT WEEK.

MONDAY, June 30, 8 p.m. Victoria Institute: Annual

Meeting; Address by Prof Dabney. THURSDAY, July 3, 4 p.m. Archaeological Institute: "Roman Antiquities in Switzerland," by Prof. B. Lewis; The Church Plate of Rutlandshire." by Mr. R. C. Hope; "Stone Coffins lately discovered in Herts," by Mr. F. Helmore. 5 p.m. Ancient and Modern," by Mr. J. E. Harting. FRIDAY, July 4, 11 a.m. Telegraph Engineers: "Electric Lighting in Relation to Health," by Mr. R. E.

Zoological: Davis Lecture, "Dogs,

Crompton; The Physiological Bearing of Elec

tricity on Health," by Mr. W. H. Stone.

SCIENCE.

The Annals of Tacitus. Edited by H. Furneaux. Vol. I., Books I.-VI. (Oxford: Clarendon Press.)

A GOOD deal has been done lately towards making the Annals of Tacitus intelligible to English readers. It is not very long since Mr. Frost published his edition in the "Bibliotheca Classica," and Messrs. Church

and Brodribb their translation. Last year
appeared Prof. Holbrooke's edition (reviewed
in the ACADEMY, March 21, 1883), and now
the "Clarendon Press Series" contains the
first instalment of another scholar's text and
commentary. Mr. Furneaux' work is meant
for more advanced students than that of Prof.
Holbrooke; it gives more reasoned opinions
on passages, fuller explanations of the text,
and larger lists of references. Like Mr.
Watson's Selection from the Letters of Cicero,
in the same series, it contains also an Intro-
duction so full as to serve for a thorough
historical setting to the text.

Pupils of the late Mr. T. F. Dallin will be
glad to hear that some of the work of that
gentleman, who had undertaken to edit part
of the Annals for the Delegates of the Oxford
University Press, is embedded in Mr. Fur-
neaux' notes. The actual editor comes to
his task well equipped. His commentary
shows familiarity with all the best of the
matter which the erudition of Germany offers
His use of
to the curiosity of England.
Draeger, his citations of Wilmanns, the
C. I. L., Mommsen, Marquardt, and Fried-
länder, leave little to be desired. But he has
used a sound judgment of his own, too; and
the result is an extremely helpful and sug-
gestive commentary. The very condensed
character of the information which Tacitus
gives us, for instance, in book iv. 5, 6, makes
those chapters a severe test of an editor, and
students must be grateful to one who explains
the technicalities and fills out the allusions so
successfully as Mr. Furneaux. There is some
further curious matter about the race
origin of the men in the cohortes praetoriae to
be found in Oscar Bohn, Ueber die Heimat der
Prätorianer; but it is likely that Mr. Fur-
neaux has seen this pamphlet, and passed
over its contents in the exercise of a discretion
for which no one can blame him. We should,
however, like to add Mr. J. R. Green's in-
teresting paper on Capreae to the other authori-
ties given on iii. 67.

or

The other sections are a very valuable summary of what is known on the constitution and circumstances of the early principate. The only fault we can find with it is that it is too faithful to known facts; it is not always easy to ascertain the author's own views, and, without some little infusion of a personal view, a discussion, and still more a résumé, is apt to be dry. With Mr. Furneaux' dissent from Mommsen's theory of the dyarchy of Emperor and Senate, if he does dissent from it, we heartily agree. Dr. Mommsen's Staats. recht contains the statement of his position; but we find in it nothing to override the de facto evidence for an unrestrained despotism at Rome from the time of Augustus. When we see the emperors allowing themselves violent acts with no fear of interference on the part of the Senate, enjoying undivided and perpetual generalship, bestowing civitas, arranging elections practically at their pleasure, stamping their image on money, interfering uninvoked with the disposal of the Senatorial provinces, besides disposing unques tioned of the provinciae imperatoriae and the corresponding funds, it is hard to see that there is much left for the other half of the dyarchy. We admire the ingenuity shown nowadays in finding an appropriate ticket, its potestas or imperium, for each despotic at or privilege; but we can only say that this is indeed scelera nuper reperta priscis verbis Mr. Furneaux' view seems exobtegere. pressed with hesitation. "The duality of government is thus shown to be fictitious," he says on p. 81; but on p. 75 we read that "The early princeps has no such monarchy as that of Diocletian or Constantine." Probably not.

The language of Tacitus is very carefully
annotated by the help of the lexicon of
Gerber and Greef, and of other German sources
indicated in Mr. Furneaux' Preface. But we
cannot help wondering whether at the bottom
of some of the foreign work might not be
found the solid verbal Index affixed by Mr.
Horner, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to
his handsome old edition of Taciti Opera
(1790). Mr. Furneaux, if we are not mistaken,
has not relied entirely on such authorities.
His illustrations often seem those of a man
well read in Augustan and some pre-Augustan
and later writers, illustrating afresh for him-
self, and that very appositely. At all events,
the reader is enabled to see clearly where a
thought is borrowed or where a phrase comes
from a poet, and to trace a slovenly construc-
tion or loose senses of words from carelessness
in the Golden Age down to imitation in the
Silver Age. Notes are specially required on
Tacitus to show where the author is using
technical words loosely, and where with a
strict precision, which precision has in some
cases only been cleared up by inscriptions.
Thus inscriptions justify the tricena aut quad-
The Athenian tribute-lists (vide Köhler, ragena stipendia of i. 17, which might have
Mr. Furneaux
Urkunden u. Untersuchungen zur Gesch. des been thought rhetorical.
delisch-attischen Bundes) have the form Kelév-points out the exact propriety of the word
δερις.

The text adopted is, in the main, that of
Halm. We cannot help thinking-though it
is, of course, no part of Mr. Furneaux' work
-that in the constitution of a text too much
deference
may be paid to reasoning. For in-
stance, the MS. reading in iii. 49 is Clutorium
Priscum. This is often-and, we think,
rightly-printed C. Lutorium Priscum, for
Dio "gives the full name as Gaius Lutorius
Priscus." But against this positive evidence
Ritter and Halm retain the form Clutorium,
because "it would be unusual for Tacitus, in
speaking of a somewhat obscure person, to
mention him twice by three and thrice by
The name Clutorius, however,
is certainly known from inscriptions to have
been a Roman name. Inscriptions might,
perhaps, be invoked again to settle between
the readings Celendris and Celenderis in ii.

two names.

80.

Mr. Furneaux' Introduction gives to a recent attempt to prove that the Annals were forged in the fifteenth century the unnecessary honour of a regular refutation, in which he puts together many curious confirmations furnished by epigraphy or numismatics to passing phrases or minor incidents of the text.

obvenisset (ie., sorte) in iii. 33, for the proposal there could only apply to Senatorial provinces, which were assigned by sors, the Senate having no authority over Caesar's. This kind of information he furnishes abund antly, though we could have wished for a note, too, on the use of tributum in ii. 42, 47.

We have marked several passages in which