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SOME PUBLICATIONS OF
THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE UNI-
VERSITY AND COLLEGES OF CAMBRIDGE, by the late
Professor Willis, M.A. With numerous Maps, Plans, and Illustra-
tions. Continued to the present time, and edited by John Willis
Clark, MA., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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"FROM SHAKESPEARE TO POPE"; an Inquiry into
the causes and phenomena of the rise of Classical Poetry in England.
By Edmund gosse, Clark Lecturer in English Literature at Cam-
bridge. Crown 8vo. {Immediately.
SOPHOCLES: The Plays and Fragments, with Critical
Notes, Commentary, and Translation in English Prose, by R. C.
Jebb, Litt.D., LL.D., Professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow.
Parti. Oedipus Tyrannus. Demy 8vo. 15^.
Part II. Oedipus Coloneus. {Nearly ready.
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scholarship combines with taste, erudition, and help whatever, acquire with comfort and de-
boundless industry to make this first volume a light a thorough acquaintance with the noblest
pattern of editing. The work is made com- production of, perhaps, the most difficult of all
plctc by a prose translation, upon pages alter- Greek, poets—the most difficult, yet possessed
nating with the text, of which we may say at the same time of an immortal charm for one
shortly that it displays sound judgment and who has mastered him, as Mr Jcbb has, and
taste, without sacrificing precision to poetry of can feel so subtly perfection of form and lan-
expression."—The Times, guagc.We await with lively expectation the
"This larger edition he has deferred these continuation, and completion of Mr Jebb's
many years for reasons which he has given in great task, and it is a fortunate thing that his
his preface, and which we accept with entire power of work seems to be as great as the style
satisfaction, as we have now the first portion is happy in which the work is done."—The
of a work composed in the fulness of his powers Atketuzum.
and with, all the resources of fine erudition and "An edition which marks a definite ad-
laboriously earned experience...We will confi- vance, which is whole in itself, and brings a
dently aver, then, that the edition is neither mass of solid and well-wrought material such,
tedious nor long ; for we get in one compact as future constructors will desire to adapt, is
volume such a cyclopaedia of instruction, such definitive in the only applicable sense of the
a variety of helps to the full comprehension of term, and such is the edition of Professor Jebb.
the poet, as not so many years ago would have No man is better fitted to express in relation to
needed a small library, and all this instruction Sophocles the mind of the present generation."
and assistance given, not in a dull and pedantic —The Saturday Review.
way, but in a style of singular clearness and'
SOPHOCLES.—OEDIPUS TYRANNUS. With Critical
Notes, Commentary, etc. (abridged edition) by R. C. Jebb, Litt. D., Professor
of Greek in the University of Glasgow. j,s. (3d.
A SELECTION OF GREEK INSCRIPTIONS, with
Introductions and Annotations by E. S. Roberts, M.A., Fellow
and Tutor of Gonville and Caius College. [In the Press.
PINDAR. OLYMPIAN AND PYTHIAN ODES. With
Notes Explanatory and Critical, Introductions and Introductory
Essays. Edited by C. A. M. Fennell, Litt. D., late Fellow of
Jesus College. Crown 8vo. 9^.
"Mr Fennell deserves the thanks of allclas- in comparative philology."—Athenmtm.
sical students for his careful and scholarly edi- "Considered simply as a contribution to the
tion of the Olympian and Pythian odes. He study and criticism of Pindar, Mr Fennell's
brings to his task the necessary enthusiasm for edition is a work of great merit."—Saturday
his author, great industry, a sound judgment, Review.
and, in particular, copious and minute learning
--THE ISTHMIAN AND NEMEAN ODES. By the same
Editor. Crown 8vo. 9^.
"... As a handy and instructive edition of valuable help to the study of the most difficult
a difficult classic no work of recent years sur- of Greek authors, and is enriched with notes
passes Mr Fennell's 'Pindar.'"—Atheua'um. on points of scholarship and etymology which
"This work is in no way inferior to could only have been written by a scholar of
the previous volume. The commentary affords very high attainments."—Saturday Review.
London : C, J. Cla y 6^ Son, Cambridge University Press Warehouse^
Ave Maria Lane.
THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE UNI-
VERSITY AND COLLEGES OF CAMBRIDGE, by the late
Professor Willis, M.A. With numerous Maps, Plans, and Illustra-
tions. Continued to the present time, and edited by John Willis
Clark, MA., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
[Nearly ready.
"FROM SHAKESPEARE TO POPE"; an Inquiry into
the causes and phenomena of the rise of Classical Poetry in England.
By Edmund gosse, Clark Lecturer in English Literature at Cam-
bridge. Crown 8vo. {Immediately.
SOPHOCLES: The Plays and Fragments, with Critical
Notes, Commentary, and Translation in English Prose, by R. C.
Jebb, Litt.D., LL.D., Professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow.
Parti. Oedipus Tyrannus. Demy 8vo. 15^.
Part II. Oedipus Coloneus. {Nearly ready.
"Of his explanatory and critical notes we vivacity, In fact, one might take this edition
can only speak with admiration. Thorough with him on a journey, and, without any other
scholarship combines with taste, erudition, and help whatever, acquire with comfort and de-
boundless industry to make this first volume a light a thorough acquaintance with the noblest
pattern of editing. The work is made com- production of, perhaps, the most difficult of all
plctc by a prose translation, upon pages alter- Greek, poets—the most difficult, yet possessed
nating with the text, of which we may say at the same time of an immortal charm for one
shortly that it displays sound judgment and who has mastered him, as Mr Jcbb has, and
taste, without sacrificing precision to poetry of can feel so subtly perfection of form and lan-
expression."—The Times, guagc.We await with lively expectation the
"This larger edition he has deferred these continuation, and completion of Mr Jebb's
many years for reasons which he has given in great task, and it is a fortunate thing that his
his preface, and which we accept with entire power of work seems to be as great as the style
satisfaction, as we have now the first portion is happy in which the work is done."—The
of a work composed in the fulness of his powers Atketuzum.
and with, all the resources of fine erudition and "An edition which marks a definite ad-
laboriously earned experience...We will confi- vance, which is whole in itself, and brings a
dently aver, then, that the edition is neither mass of solid and well-wrought material such,
tedious nor long ; for we get in one compact as future constructors will desire to adapt, is
volume such a cyclopaedia of instruction, such definitive in the only applicable sense of the
a variety of helps to the full comprehension of term, and such is the edition of Professor Jebb.
the poet, as not so many years ago would have No man is better fitted to express in relation to
needed a small library, and all this instruction Sophocles the mind of the present generation."
and assistance given, not in a dull and pedantic —The Saturday Review.
way, but in a style of singular clearness and'
SOPHOCLES.—OEDIPUS TYRANNUS. With Critical
Notes, Commentary, etc. (abridged edition) by R. C. Jebb, Litt. D., Professor
of Greek in the University of Glasgow. j,s. (3d.
A SELECTION OF GREEK INSCRIPTIONS, with
Introductions and Annotations by E. S. Roberts, M.A., Fellow
and Tutor of Gonville and Caius College. [In the Press.
PINDAR. OLYMPIAN AND PYTHIAN ODES. With
Notes Explanatory and Critical, Introductions and Introductory
Essays. Edited by C. A. M. Fennell, Litt. D., late Fellow of
Jesus College. Crown 8vo. 9^.
"Mr Fennell deserves the thanks of allclas- in comparative philology."—Athenmtm.
sical students for his careful and scholarly edi- "Considered simply as a contribution to the
tion of the Olympian and Pythian odes. He study and criticism of Pindar, Mr Fennell's
brings to his task the necessary enthusiasm for edition is a work of great merit."—Saturday
his author, great industry, a sound judgment, Review.
and, in particular, copious and minute learning
--THE ISTHMIAN AND NEMEAN ODES. By the same
Editor. Crown 8vo. 9^.
"... As a handy and instructive edition of valuable help to the study of the most difficult
a difficult classic no work of recent years sur- of Greek authors, and is enriched with notes
passes Mr Fennell's 'Pindar.'"—Atheua'um. on points of scholarship and etymology which
"This work is in no way inferior to could only have been written by a scholar of
the previous volume. The commentary affords very high attainments."—Saturday Review.
London : C, J. Cla y 6^ Son, Cambridge University Press Warehouse^
Ave Maria Lane.