DIO'S ROMAN HISTORY 67 Domitian's cruel character: his hatred of his father and brother (chapters 1, 2).

Not taught thus, literature remains grammar, art a catalogue, history a list of dates, and natural science a sheet of formulas and weights and measures.

Well, it was their peculiar privilege to represent to-day that sturdy stock which, when this great republic was in the pangs of birth, had with sword and pen and oratory discomfited the hirelings of England and given to history the undying names of several Revolutionary patriots,all of whom he enumerated with the customary pause after each cognomen to allow for the customary applause.

It is in such places we may best face reality, for they lend to history all its poetry and, as Aristotle knew, there is more truth in poetry than in history.

REVIEW OF THE GENERAL HISTORY OP POLYBIUS, IN FIVE BOOKS, TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK, BY MR. HAMPTON.

"The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, formerly a hunter"; nominally written by Boon himself, in 1784, but in reality by John Filson, the first Kentucky historian,a man who did history good service, albeit a true sample of the small hedge-school pedant.

DIO'S ROMAN HISTORY 76 Severus's war against the Osrhoeni, Adiabeni, and Arabians (chapters 1-3).

CHAPTER XXI Awfully Jolly When life becomes a spasm, And history a whiz, If that is not sensation, I don't know what it is.