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 286 Journal of Philology. The notes seem to us very good and scholarlike, with the rare fault, as wo have implied, of being too short. Some bold emendations Are proposed : e. g. in Simonides' (of Amor- gos) poem upon women, vv. 61, 62, ovre irpbs lirvov, acr$6kr)v aXfvpeprj iCoit, dudyKjf d" avbpa iroifiTai (pikov, our Editor proposes ioit av y ayyea 8' avrpcmclv ctr] (piXov, adding, " tho only change I have made in the sound is inserting an n between two ee sounds and expelling a t. A knowledge of tho investiga- tions into the pronunciation of the ancient Greeks is essentially neces- sary to an understanding of the errors of transcribers." This is one of the many just and acute remarks to be met with in the volume, though we are unablo to acquiesce in its application to this particular passage. We have not space at present for further discussion, and so we con- clude by sending a hearty Gliick.au/to Mr Donaldson, Professor Blackie, and their fellow-labourers in Edinburgh, a city which now bids fair to deserve, more than ever, its title of " the modern Athens. "J W. G. C. HannibaVs Passage of the Alps. By Robert Ellis, B.D., Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. 8vo. pp. 188. Cambridge, J. Deighton : London, J. W. Parker. [In this treatise the course of Hannibal's march, from tho time of his leaving New Carthago to his entrance into the plains of Italy, is exa- mined by Mr Ellis, who declares in favour of the Mont Cenis as the pass which was crossed. This is the result at which Ukcrt arrived in tho Appendix to the 2nd Volume of his Oeographie, except that ho appears to suppose Hannibal to have crossed at the point over which the high road now runs, the greater Mont Cenis ; while Mr Ellis argues for tho little Mont Cenis. Tho two Cols however are not far asunder, and tho descent on tho Italian side from a point not far below tho summit is tho same for both. Mr Ellis commences by a minuto discussion of tho text of Polybius, from which ho deduces the conditions of distance, nature of ground, &c, which tho pass selected must satisfy ; and then proceeds step by stop to shew that they are fully satisfied by tho Mont Cenis, and by it alono. In this he has, wo believe, been tho first to take adequate account of the changes duo to modern engineering in tho course of the road leading up the valley : tho present high-road in one place, near St Pierro d'Alle- vard, traversing a marshy tract, which formerly must have been quite impassable for an army, and at the Rock of Bauno, tho XevKfaerpov oxvpov of Polybius, running at tho foot of tho cliff between it and tho torrent, where it is known that until within quite recent times no passage existed. These two points are of considerable importance, being the scenes of tho two attacks made by the Gauls upon tho army in its march.