Messrs. J. M. Dent and Co. have added another fifty
volumes to their "Everyman's Library" (1s. net per vol.) Among them we see, in the province of " History," Tacitus, Translated by Arthur Murphy, 2 vols. (Vol. I. contains the "Annals," II. the " Histories," "Germany," and " Agricola," the highly interesting " On Famous Orators" being omitted.) Murphy has the great merit of being eminently readable, bearing, as he does, no small resemblance to Gibbon. But he is somewhat diffuse, and not nnfrequently fails to give the point of the original. So in the rebuilding of Cremona we read : " The temples and public hnildings were rebuilt, at the recommendation of Vespasian, by the munificence of the colony." What Tacitus says is et Vespasianus hortabatur; "and Vespasian gave—his encourage- ment," manifestly a satire on the Emperor's notorious parsimony. In the same section are Creasy's Decisive Rattles and Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac, 2 vols. In the " Classical " province we have the second volume of Euripides—the translations are by Shelley, Milman, Potter, and Woodhull ; in " navel and Topo- graphy," Marco Polo ; in "Fiction," Jane Eyre and Shirley, Kingsley's Hereward the Wake, and Lorna Doone. The " Library" well maintains the reputation which it has already won.
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