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Rh primies par Déterville et Saugrain. There is also a useful German translation, with annotations, entitled ''Xen. über die Jagd'', verdeutscht und erlautert von T. W. Lenz (1823). I have further found Eugene Talbot's notes to his Traduction from time to time of use. In an oldish book, Essays on Huntings with an Introduction, describing the Method of Hare-hunting practised by the Greeks, by William Blane (1788), will be found translations of some sections of the Cynegeticus, with much superlative praise of its author. "I have been, indeed, astonished in reading the Cynegeticos of Xenophon, to find the accurate knowledge that great man had of the nature of the Hare, and the method of hunting her, and to observe one of the finest Writers, the bravest Soldiers, the ablest Politicians, the wisest Philosophers, and the most virtuous Citizens of antiquity, so intimately acquainted with all the niceties and difficulties of pursuing this little animal, and describing them with a precision that would not disgrace the oldest sportsman of Great Britain, who never had any other idea interfere to perplex his researches." Lastly, I have to name what strikes me as the best commentary on the Cynegeticus which I have ever seen, in the shape of a review article in Macmillan's Magazine, to which frequent reference is made in the notes to my own translation. It is entitled A Day with Xenophon's Harriers. The author writes at once as a scholar and a sportsman, and the translations interspersed in his text, I must again admit, as in the case of Dr. Morris Morgan's Horsemanship, are vastly superior to my own in the way of directness of speech. The writer does not fall behind William Blane either in enthusiasm for coursing or admiration for the ancient many-sided man, author,