The Sewanee Review

MINOR NOTICES.

IT is perhaps a little late to notice Professor Albert S. Cook's "The Art of Poetry," which is a collection of the poetical treatises of Horace, Vida and Boileau, with the translations by Howes, Pitt, and Soame. Professor Cook has undoubtedly done more within the last few years to foster the study of poetry in this country than any other professor of English with whom we are acquainted, and it is only just to call emphatic attention to the fact. From the frequent appearance of such text-books as the above, we infer that they have a wide enough sale to justify the publishers, (in this case Ginn & Co., Boston,) in their enterprise, and this in itself is a pleasant and encouraging thing to note.

THOSE who have to do with the teaching of French literature will be disposed to give a hearty welcome to Duval's "Histoire de la Litterature Française," (D. C. Heath & Co., Boston.) Though the author is professor in a New England college for women, she has none of the restricted literary vision that such conditions might seem to imply, and has produced what seems to us a strikingly fair and useful book for which the preface modestly disclaims originality. The method of its composition seems to have been to extract, in regard to each writer, the substance of the best judgments of the most competent critics, sometimes so nearly in their own words that the style is not quite uniform. The preface referred to is a sufficient defense against any charge of plagiarism, but reference to the primary authorities might have been useful, though most professors will, perhaps, have at hand the means of supplying this deficiency. The book is admirable for its purpose. To those who have struggled

with Demogeot, et omne id genus, we would say with Xenophon, "Cyrus has tasted this dish and wishes you also may enjoy it."

ONE of the cheapest and best of the reprints of the English classics now so extensively used in our schools and colleges, is the series published semi-weekly by Maynard, Merrill & Co., of New York. We have several numbers before us, and we have been struck with their serviceableness, The introduction and notes are sufficient for most purposes, and the prices are very reasonable. Glancing over the list of the hundred and twenty odd numbers that have appeared, we note with pleasure the wide range the selections have taken. It is not often that Shelton, Surrey, Wyatt and Cowley figure in such a series, and yet there are times when the teacher desires to have his pupils read something from such authors, even though he may not care to have them carefully and minutely studied.

WE have on our table "The Church Club Lectures" for 1891, the subject of the series being "Catholic Dogma." (New York, E. & J. B. Young & Co.) The same for 1892, the subject being "The Church's Ministry of Grace;" "A Life's Labor," by E. M. Mason; "A Nursery Idyl," by M. E. Wolton, and "Connie's Service," by H. C. Garland—all written by Christian women and belonging to the excellent series of short tales published by the S. P. C. K.; (New York, Young). "The Bible Abridged," by Rev. D. G. Haskins; (Boston, Heath). "Miscellanies and Sermons," by Rev. George Warner Nicholls, D.D.; (Bridgeport, Conn., The Author). "Why Not and Why?" (New York, Appleton).

NOTE: p. 410 for Harvey read Hervey, for Alçon read Alcon.

ARTICLES.

Colonial Piracy,

DeKoven, The Rev. James,

Early Piracy and Colonial Commerce,

Education of Memory,

Elegiac Poetry, Note on,

English Philology and English Literature,

Evolution of Amendments in the Constitution of

the United States,

Features of American Slavery,

Goodwin's Greek Grammar,