As the publication of “classical libraries” is a nineteenth century development, so the introduction of schoolboy helps began with the early years of the century. The work of T. W. C. Edwards in the twenties and thirties was intended for schoolboy consumption. At the same time one or more persons hid behind the all‐inclusive authorship of "Graduate of the University of Oxford" to produce literal translations of the works of the dramatists. In the middle of the century much of the work of Doctor J. A. Giles was done to help the schoolboy over hard places. In 1870 and the following years a new series of translations of the dramatists was brought out by a “First‐Class Man of Balliol College.” Roscoe Mongan, whose translations were to a large extent published in _Kelly’s Keys to the Classics_, began his work in 1878. These translations went over the ground covered by his predecessors, and spread out into history, epic and philosophy. Evidently the schoolboys of his time found them very useful, for many of them were reprinted within a few years. During the early eighties the “First‐Class Man of Balliol College” reappeared with a translation of Herodotus book by book. From this time until the outbreak of the present war there was a steady output of these utilitarian translations. G. F. H. Sykes, J. H. Haydon, A. H. Allcroft, J. A. Prout, F. G. Plaistowe, E. S. Crooke, J. Thompson, B. J. Hayes, H. Hailstone, T. R. Mills, W. H. Balgarnie, J. F. Stout, and others who did only one or two books, made their translations with the student of the language as their reading public. Some of these translations appeared in the _University Tutorial Series_, a collection of books in which the text, translations, notes, vocabulary, difficult parsings, and test papers were published. The work of these men, quantitatively at least, is an important factor in the history of Greek translation. Between 1850 and 1870 only eleven translations of this type were published; between the years 1870 and 1910, however, at least two hundred and eleven schoolboy helps were published. The following table gives the minimum figures for this kind of translation during these years. 1870‐1879=26 1880‐1889=62 1890‐1899=86 1900‐1909=37 The falling off in the first decade of the twentieth century may be due to two causes: first, the decrease in the number of students of Greek in the schools, which was the result of the great opposition stirred up in the latter part of the nineteenth century by the advocates of a more practical education; and, secondly, the ample production of the decade preceding filled the market and plentifully supplied the demand. I have set forth here these figures in regard to the schoolboy translation because I doubt whether the extent of that type of work has been realized by any except the competing publishers. To no small degree has the total of translations in the latter part of the nineteenth century been increased by this type of publication.