notes to the Ovid, and in an enriched rather than an impoverished form. In addition to the shorter notes, a few dissertations will be found interspersed here and there throughout the book. These are for the most part upon matters which are imperfectly explained in ordinary works, or where the desired results could be arrived at only by searching into and comparing a number of different treatises. Such are the disquisitions on the Lares and Penates (p. 67), on the Sibylline books and the different Sibyls (p. 259), on the origin of the Olympian Gods and their wars with the Titans, Giants, &c. (p. 251), on Janus (p. 189), on Mars (p. 204), on Faunus (p. 40), on Vesta (p. 275), the Preliminary Remarks, and many of the Introductions to the different Extracts. The selection of various readings will be found to include 1. Those which are equal or nearly equal in authority to the received text. 2. Those which have been adopted by the best editors. 3. Those which serve to illustrate the manner in which errors gradually crept in during the process of repeated transcription. 4. Those whose rejection involves some point of delicate or curious criticism. It would be obviously undesirable, in a school-book like the present, to enlarge upon this department; but none can deny that, in the hands of a skilful teacher, various readings may be used as a powerful instrument for exercising the judgment and improving the taste. In addition to the annotations contained in the best editions of the poet, of which a list has been given in p. xxix, it should be mentioned that in all that relates to ancient mythology free use has been made of the works of J. H. Voss1, K. O. Müller 2, and Hartung, while in the Appendix on the Roman Calendar the excellent essay of Ideler has been closely followed. 1 Mythologische Briefe-Antisymbolik-Kritische Blätter. 2 Prolegomena zu einer wissenschaftlichen Mythologie-Orchomenos-Die Dorier-Die Etrusker. 3 Die Religion der Römer. Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie. In the present Edition, the only decided alteration I have ventured to make is in the matter of orthography, as to the true principles of which so much progress has been made by modern scholars. In accordance with the now generally received conclusions of the best authorities, I have written uniformly caelum, caelestis, caeruleus, cetera, fenus, fetus, femina, fenum, maeror, maestus, baedus, nequiquam, quicquam, umquam, numquam, tamquam, etc., inserted the in such forms as sumptus, ademptus, etc., and made a few other unimportant changes of a similar character. With regard to the difficult question of assimilation I have left the orthography as it stood. With these exceptions the work remains, both in form and substance, absolutely unchanged. GEORGE G. RAMSAY. GLASGOW COLLEGE, |