192 THE VIRGINIA TEACHER [Vol. 10, No. "First," she explained, "it forces students CLASSICAL BIBLIOGRA- to think closely about the meaning of words. PHIES In ordinary life people do not think about I. Bibliography for the Study of the words. They do not even read letters with Classics close attention to words. Many persons live mentally in a sort of fog most of the TEACHERS of Classics today are holding more steadfastly than ever time. Greek forces one to express one's to the literary accomplishments of self accurately. our Latin and Greek predecessors. Years "Second, there is the joy of intellectual of teaching experience have proved to adventure. Few of us are privileged to go them that the development of an exquisite on great adventures in the flesh, such as fly- power and faculty of reasoning lies in ing by airplane to the South Pole. But in the study of the classics, and that no bet- our minds we may. Greek gives us a sense ter medium for a thorough and liberal of the great adventure, for instance, of education could be desired. The follow- archaeology. It is queer that so many think ing list is not exhaustive but is suggestive. of archaeology as a dry and dusty science. Greek Culture and The Greek Testament Most of us as children have felt a thrill at by Hayes is especially recommended for the motion of digging for buried gold. Why one who wishes to start a small collection should we not be thrilled at the thought of on the subject. One should also obtain a buried past? the latest book entitled The Classics: Their "Third, a study of the remote past gives History and Present Status in Education, us a defense against advocating quack po- being a symposium of essays edited by litical nostrums. We can see how in the Kirsch. Reviews of these two books are in this issue. The Legacy of Greece edited past these have been tried and did not avail. by Livingstone, and The Legacy of Rome "Fourth, the study of Greek and things edited by Bailey, are collections of essays by like Greek leads us into foreign lands. the foremost English classical scholars. Our Travel is valuable when we do it with our Debt to Greece and Rome Series is written bodies. But even if we cannot do that, it by able scholars of all nations. is always possible for us, since we can do Bailey, Cyril, The Legacy of Rome. Oxford it through books. University Press. 1923. Pp. 512. Beman, Lamar T., Study of Latin and Greek. "The fifth advantage of studying things H. W. Wilson Co., New York. 1921. Pp. 237. Bennett and Bristol, The Teaching of Latin like Greek is that it gives us contact with and Greek. Longmans, Green, and Co. New beauty, which we need greatly in our mod- York. 1911. Pp. 336. Browne, Henry, Our Renaissance. Longmans, ern American life. Contact with beauty Green and Co. New York. 1918. Pp. 281. gives food for the spirit, and so supplies Burns, C. D., Greek Ideals. Harcourt. London. 1917. vitality, force and imagination—elements Butcher, S. H., Harvard Lectures on Greek exceedingly important for success in life. Subjects. New York. 1904. Butcher, S. H., Some Aspects of the Greek The remote, the difficult, the supposedly Genius. Macmillan. London. Carter, Jane Gray, Little Studies in Greek. unpractical, give food for the spirit. Silver, Burdett and Co. New York. 1927. Pp. "I believe that these unpractical things 206. Chapman, J. J., Greek Genius and Other Es- are really practical in a higher sense. They says. New York. 1915. make us wiser, broader-minded, clearer- Collins, J. C, Greek Influence on English Poetry. London. 1910. sighted. They fill us with the spirit of en- Conway, R. S., New Studies of a Great In- heritance. John Murray. London. 1921. Pp. thusiasm." 241. June, 1929] THE VIRGINIA TEACHER 193 ■ Cook, Sir Edward, More Literary Recreations. 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Gildersleeve, B. L., Hellas and Hespena. Henry Peet, T. E., The Stone and Bronze Ages m Holt and Co. New York. 1919. Italy and Sicily. Oxford University Press. 1909. Glotz, Gustave, The Aegean Civilisation. Al- Pp. 528. fred A. Knopf, New York. Plainer, S. B., Topography and Monuments of Gordon, G. S., English Literature and the Clas- Ancient Rome. Allyn and Bacon. New York. sics. Oxford University Press. 1912. Pp. 252. 1911. Pp. 552. Greene, William Chase, The Achievement of Poland, F., Reisinger, E., Wagner, R., 1 he Greece. Harvard University Press. 1923. Pp. Culture of Ancient Greece and Rome. Little, 334. Brown and Co. Boston. 1926. Pp. 335. Gulick, C. B., Modern Traits in Old Greek Rose, H. J., Primitive Culture in Greece. Life. Longmans, Green and Co. New York. Methuen & Co. London. 1925. 1927. Rose, H. J., Primitive Culture in Italy. George Hammerton, A., Wonders of the Past. The H. Doran Co. New York. 1926. Pp. 253. Romance of Antiquity and its Splendours. 4 Sabin, F. E., Relation of Latin to Practical vols. Putnam. New York. Vol. I. 1923. Vol. II, III, IV. 1924. With 1500 illustrations and Life. Baker and Taylor Co. New York. 100 color plates. Each $5.00. _ . Sabin, F. E., Classical Associations of Places Hardie, R., Lectures oh Clo^ssicol Subjects. in Italy. Baker and Taylor. New York. 1921. Macmillan. London. Shorey, Paul, The Assault on Humanism. Bos- Hayes, Doremus Almy, Greek Culture and 1 he ton. Little. 1917. Greek Testament. The Abingdon Press. New Tarn, W. W., Hellenistic Civilization. Edward Arnold' & Co. London. 1927. York. 1925. Pp. 224. , T T . Hoffman, H. A., Everyday Greek. University Toynbee, Arnold J., Greek Civilization and of Chicago Press. 1919. Pp. 107. Character. J. M. Dent & Sons. London. 1924. James, H. R., Our Hellenic Heritage. Mac- Pp. 236. millan. New York. 1927. Pp. 848, Toynbee, Arnold J., Greek Historical Thought. Johnson, H. W., Private Life of the Romans. J. M. Dent & Sons. London. 1924. Pp. 256. 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Interesting Classical Fiction Faries, Randolph, Ancient Rome in the Eng- Church, A. J., The Fall of Athens. Seeley, lish Novel, a Study in Historical Fiction. (A Service & Co. London. 1894. thesis published by the University of Pennsyl- Church, A. J., Young Macedonian in the Army vania, 1923). of Alexander the Great. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Gissing, George, Veranilda. E. P. Button & New York. 1890. Co. New York. 1904. Invasion of Rome by the Cowles, J. D., Our Little Athenian Cousin of Goths. Long Ago. Page Co. Boston, 1913. The age Henty, G. A., Beric the Briton. Chas. Scribner's of Pericles. Sons. New York. 1893. Roman dominion over Cowles, J. D., Our Little Macedonian Cousin Britain; Boadicea; The burning of Rome.