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[*] pref2. THE first part of this Greek Syntax is a fragment of a larger scheme of a Greek Series, which was abandoned for good and sufficient reasons, and it lay in print for some time unpublished. Finally, yielding to the representations of those who were interested in my grammatical work, I gave it to the scholarly world as a specimen of my method of treating a subject about which my studies had revolved for many years. That method demands repeated reading and repeated sifting, and the utmost bound of my hope was the continuation of the general plan by other hands and the acceptance by competent judges of the results already gained. The framework, as constituted in my Latin Grammar, which was built on the same lines, has been in use for a lifetime. The details of my special Greek studies are accessible in various publications, so that any one who finds aught worth adopting either in general plan or in individual formula can readily avail himself of what I have done for the furtherance of syntactical study. This second part, like the first, is based on the manuscript of the original work and the text is with some slight exceptions my own; but whereas in the first part the contributions of Professor MILLER were merely supplementary, in the second part, and especially in the treatment of the article, the collection and the sorting of the examples have been carried out with his characteristic fulness and accuracy, so that I desire that all credit be given to him for the value of this segment of the work as a repository of facts. The disparateness of the two parts was inevitable under the circumstances, and the delay occasioned by the coöperation has been so great that it has seemed best at this point to dissolve the partnership, maintained for so many years, as it would have been dissolved at any rate in the natural course of things. An outline of what remains is in progress, and though it is high time that I cut down long hope to match the brief space of human life, I do not hesitate to commit myself to a plan that involves little more than the shaping of material already in hand. BASIL L. GILDERSLEEVE, THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE.
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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