of the 'magnus Auruncae alumnus.' Thereupon ensues a pretty quarrel, and the two old men depart grumbling, each taking his own way, and both followed by the jeers of Furius, a famous wit in his day. While the buyer is left to bargain with Lucius Sosius himself, Horace enters, and the stranger, who is none other than Pompeius Varus of Carm. II 7, and the poet fall into each other's arms and there is much talk of the old war-times, with their hardships and horrors and hasty pleasures. To fit their converse, the voice of the reader is heard from within: paribus concurrere pilis Romanas acies iterum videre Philippi. But the verses that recall so much to the two old soldiers are soon followed by these others; scilicet et tempus veniet, cum finibus illis aut gravibus rastris galeas pulsabit inanes, and the scene closes with a prayer for peace by the poet of the abandoned targe. I have given above a rough outline of the poem Sosii Fratres Bibliopolae, carmen Iohannis Pascoli ex Castro Sancti Mauri (Amsterdam, Muller), which has recently taken the Hoeufft prize for Latin verse-composition. The conception is not bad, and by giving it a place in Brief Mention I gain an opportunity to call attention to the fact that the art of Latin versification still buds and brings forth boughs like a plant, through the scent of the waters of Pactolus. M. W.: Under the title De emendando Differentiarum Libro (Paris, Thorin), M. ALCIDES MACE has published a treatise of 170 pages, which constitutes the Prolegomena to a new edition of the De Proprietate Sermonum attributed to Isidore of Seville, which the author is preparing and for which there is certainly need, as the editions since 1602 have not essentially improved the text. For emending the work Macé has found material in Varro, Festus, Gellius, Nonius, Servius, Isidorus, and the Grammarians of the Corpus. He points out much confusion on the part of earlier editors. In the earliest editions the work was wrongly assigned to Cicero. The author has collated nine MSS (the earliest being of the ninth century), which he divides into three classes. In fifteen columns, occupying twenty-five pages, he compares the lemmata in his own edition with those found in other collections and grammarians. With the bibliography of his subject he shows an intimate acquaintance, and in an era so devoted to lexical investigation as the present, the new edition will be very welcome to scholars. M. W.: The first edition of the second part of SCHANZ'S Geschichte der römischen Litteratur in the Müller Handbook Series appeared in 1892 (Munich, Beck). This new edition appears before the work itself is finished, but the fourth and concluding part is announced to appear shortly. The revision shows a great increase in volume, devoting 408 pages to the period which in the first edition occupied pp. 236-476. A useful Alphabetisches Register for this part alone is added at the end. The general lines of the treatment are the same, but there is much more abundance of detail and greater fulness in the citation of literature. Thus, double the space is allotted to the attitude of the various emperors from Tiberius to Trajan toward literature, and a similar proportion prevails throughout the work. The treatment of Germanicus and the Aratea, which was very meagre in the first edition, is here much more satisfactory; so too of Manilius, in whom as a writer a new interest has been shown in the last decade. The same is true of Statius, due in part to Vollmer's excellent edition of the Silvae. The discussion of Juvenal's life and works shows a marked advance. In the first edition no scepticism was shown as to the famous Juvenal inscription; now it is definitely referred to another Juvenal. The new fragment of Juvenal is not accepted as genuine, but the literature upon the subject is fully given, and its importance for the history of the text-tradition is recognized. The treatment of the more important authors, as Tacitus, Martial and Pliny, is very broad and suggestive, but the minor authors receive the same conscientious consideration; and our thanks are due to the author, whose unflagging industry has made this new edition so fully abreast of the times. K. F. S.: Complete and trustworthy books of reference like FABIA'S Onomasticon Taciteum (Paris, Fontemoing, 1900) involve a tedium in the making which fully entitles their energetic authors to the reward of knowing that, whatever the "nutations" of Classical Philology, their work, once for all, has a real and permanent value to every student. A few moments spent in collating the Index Historicus, for example, of Halm, which has been reprinted again and again in the Teubner text, will dissipate any doubts as to the necessity of Fabia's compilation. In the single case of Achaia I observe that nearly a dozen references have been added. The list of over a hundred entries under the head of Corrigenda becomes far less formidable when examined, and does not affect our feelings of gratitude for a work which, taken with Greef's Lexicon, will, for the first time, put the entire text of Tacitus at our command. NECROLOGY. EMIL HÜBNER, July 7, 1834-February 21, 1901.1 The recent death of EMIL HÜBNER, Professor of Classical Philology in the University of Berlin, has brought personal sorrow to many American scholars, to none more poignant grief than to the writer of this tribute to a friendship which had lasted unbroken and unclouded for nearly fifty years. No scholar ever had more friends, none deserved them better. In Italy, where he studied in his young manhood, in Spain and Portugal, where he sojourned for a long time while making his epigraphical collections, in England, which he visited for the like purpose, he was as well known as he was in Germany; and though he declined a pressing invitation to the Chicago Exposition in 1893, there are Americans. enough who have shared his generous hospitality at his charming house in Berlin to join those who are mourning the loss of a man whose winning personality and ready sympathy, moral and intellectual, gave a human interest to his encyclopaedic learning. Born on the seventh of July, 1834, the son of an eminent painter of the Düsseldorf school, Julius Hübner, and the nephew of another great artist, Eduard Bendemann, he belonged to a family of rare culture in art and letters; and his receptive nature blossomed into early maturity. He was only twenty years old when he received his Doctor's degree at the University of Bonn, where Ritschl determined his course of life, and thenceforth his career was one of rapid advancement. His chief line of work was Latin epigraphy, in which he rose to eminence as a collaborator in the Berlin Corpus, as a master of all the varieties of inscriptional forms. Most of his published works are in this line, but he was also a special student of Greek and Latin grammar, as is evinced by his extremely valuable bibliographical manuals on these subjects; and his wide range of interest is shown not only by his 'Grundriss zu Vorlesungen über die Geschichte und Encyklopädie der klassischen Philologie,' but by numerous contributions to German periodicals such as the Deutsche Rundschau and the Deutsche Litteraturzeitung. He was at home in many languages and had a keen appreciation of the recent productions of the English and American press. It is not every one who can turn from writing a searching review of a work on the Keltic element 1Reproduced from the Johns Hopkins University Circulars, No. 151. in Latin to inditing a sympathetic notice of Ian Maclaren's 'Country Doctor.' What he was to me personally, as the comrade of my youth, as the link that bound me to the period of revelation and aspiration, as the constant, generous friend of riper years, I will not trust myself to say. Ueber alles Glück geht doch der Freund, Der's fühlend erst erschafft, der's theilend mehrt.' But I can not close this imperfect notice without some reference to the work which Hübner did for the Johns Hopkins University. It will be remembered that in 1888-9 the Latin Department, owing to the protracted illness of Professor Warren, was without a head, and at my instance the authorities had recourse to Professor Hübner, who prepared a valuable bibliography of Cicero's Letters, with hints for study (J. H. U. Circulars, No. 72), which served to bridge over the chasm; and the reports on the dissertations submitted to his judgment were remarkable for their fulness, their conscientiousness, their discrimination. Hübner died suddenly, as his younger brother, the successor of Wöhler at Göttingen, had died, called away from the fulness of an active and vigorous life. He was spared the pitifulness of slow senescence. He was alert to the end, such an end as he would doubtless have wished for himself. True, he had a great work on the stocks, a work which was to crown his life, but work unfinished is also a bequest. When his highly gifted wife died, he had carved on her tomb a line from her father's translation of Aeschylus, 'Du bist vollbracht, Nachtwache meines Lebens.' It is a good epitaph for a scholar that watches on the outposts of scientific life. It is far better than the sigh which one hears from Heyne's Vergilian inscription, 'Vixi et quem dederat cursum Fortuna peregi.' But even Droysen could not rival the terseness of the Greek original. There are but two words, Διαπεφρούρηται βίος. A valued correspondent, M. Joseph Keelhoff, Professor at the Athénée Royal of Antwerp, who had furnished for years the summaries of THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY to the Revue des Revues and who had shown a lively and intelligent interest in all American philological work, as was evinced by his translation of Professor HALE's Art of Reading Latin, has recently succumbed to a long and painful malady. Born April 20, 1860, M. KEELHOFF, who died February 28, 1901, had not yet completed his forty-first year. His latest letters show that he was working bravely to the end. B. L. G. RECENT PUBLICATIONS. Thanks are due to Messrs. Lemcke & Buechner, 812 Broadway, New York, for material furnished. AMERICAN. Bennett (C. E.) and Bristol (G. P.) Teaching of Latin and Secondary School. New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1901. 12mo, cl., $1.50. 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