Concerning this same book, a high authority in English to whom it was submitted, has said: “It is a clear, compact, and readable statement of the laws and principles of speech.” A Boston writer of ability had said: “This little volume is the very best text-book for any one desiring to perfect himself in the laws and principles of speech. It is grammar, rhetoric and composition combined, and is doubly worth its price.” A Philadelphia critic had said: “A better treatise could not be placed in the hands of a student who has not been initiated into the intricacies which make prose composition an intolerable bore to the young.” Other and equally strong commendations of this book might be quoted, commendations which were received from trustworthy authorities before it was placed on our list. I submitted the volume to one of the best literary critics in the country, who called attention to some errors which needed correction. Owing to the illness of the author, or for some other reason, his attention was not called to the corrections required, and therefore numerous minor defects, which would have been carefully remedied by its competent and scholarly author, appeared in the new edition. Dr. Johnson made six thousand alterations in the second edition of “The Rambler.” But for the oversight, for which I fear I must acknowledge myself responsible, the volume under consideration would have been thoroughly revised. Many local circles have as leaders men of literary ability and scholarship who, prepared for such wise service by the humility which comes from years of educational experience, have pointed out these defects, at the same time fairly representing the true value of the book, and putting emphasis upon its admirable instructions which, by hyper-criticism, may have been lost sight of. Concerning another book on the course, a critic says: “As a close student of the classics for years past, I must say that I think there is very little scholarship displayed or employed in Prof. Wilkinson’s work on Greek literature.… Further, the arrangement is senseless, even harmful. Literature is a growth, and largely the reflex of the people’s life and thought. It must then be treated historically, and not in the topsy-turvy fashion of Prof. Wilkinson.” The same writer proposed another series of works on ancient Greek literature, as a substitute for the two volumes of Prof. Wilkinson. The series he proposed, however, contained an amount of matter which would prove utterly discouraging to our readers and which would cost ten times as much as the more condensed work of Dr. Wilkinson. Besides all this, the work of Dr. Wilkinson meets the object of the C. L. S. C.