Virgil, Xneid i. With Introduction and Notes, by C. S.
Jerram. (Clarendon Press.)—Mr.Jerram's edition -was, we imagine, written to supply help to boys who are reading Virgil for the first time. There is no reason why it should not satisfactorily answer this purpose. The notes are short and generally to the point. Mr. Jerram, as he tells us in his preface, is a good deal indebted to Conington's edition. His readers will thus have the benefit of getting much that is valuable to them from that source put in a short and simple form. Occasionally, however, we think Mr. Jerram a little chary of explanation in his notes. To say about line 48 that ado-rat equals adorabit and that imponet naturally follows, seems to be shirking the difficulty. We do not think, by- the-way, that alto prospioiens, line 126, means looking out " over the deep," but rather " in his care for the deep." Mr. Jerram has given further assistance to the student by dividing the text into paragraphs, and placing over each a short description of its contents.
Book i. of the Enid of Vergil. Edited, with Notes, by F. Storr. (Rivingtons.)—Mr. Storr is giving ua by degrees a very useful edition of Virgil's Zneiri. His notes on Books xi. and xii. were characterised throughout by scholarly taste and conciseness. These, which we now have before us, on Book i. are in no way inferior to their predecessors. There have been, as Mr. Storr tells us, so many editions of Virgil published, that it is not very easy to justify any addition to this particular branch of literature. The author of the present volume may congratulate himself that he has succeeded in doing this better than many who have attempted the same task.
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