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ARISTOTLE. 



THE RHETORIC. With a Commentary by the late E. M. Cope, 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, revised and edited for the 

 Syndics of the University Press by J. E. Sandys, M.A., Fellow and 

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" It is into the Commentary, then, that 

 Mr Cope has thrown all his strength. Nor 

 do we require to read far in order to realize 

 our anticipations with regard to his scholar- 

 ship and diligence. Mr Cope was familiar 



with Aristotle and with Greek; 



but in these volumes the proof is most con- 

 vincingly present throughout the handling of 

 the matter and the manner of his author. 

 He was familiar also with the best Aristo- 

 telian scholarship of the Continent, and he 

 has liberally shared this advantage with his 



readers Mr Sandys has 



performed his arduous duties with marked 

 ability and admirable tact, so that it may 

 fairly be doubted whether the Commentary 

 really sulTers from want of the author's own 

 editorial care. He has everywhere tried, 

 with reverent fidelity, to do as Mr Cope 

 would have done, had he not been prevented 

 by untimely fate. Besides the revision of 

 Mr Cope's material already referred to in his 

 own words, Mr Sandys has thrown in many 

 useful notes ; none more useful than those 

 that bring the Commentary up to the latest 

 scholarship by reference to important works 

 that have appeared since IMr Cope's illness 

 put a period to his labours. When the 

 original Commentary stops abruptly three 

 chapters before the end of the third book, 

 Mr Sandys carefully supplies the deficiency^ 

 following Mr Cope's general plan and the 

 slightest available indications of his intended 

 treatment. In Appendices he has reprinted 

 from classical Journals several articles of Mr 

 Cope's ; and, what is better, he has given the 

 best of the late Mr Shilleto's 'Adversaria.' 

 In every part of his work — revising, supple- 

 menting, and completing — he has done ex- 

 ceedingly well. " — Examiner. 



" A careful examination of the work shows 

 that the high expectations of classical stu- 

 dents will not be disappointed. IMr Cope's 

 'wide and minute acquaintance with all the 

 Aristotelian writings,' to which Mr Sandys 

 justly bears testimony, his thorough know- 

 ledge of the important contributions of mo- 

 dern German scholars, his ripe and accurate 



scholarship, and above all, that sound judg- 

 ment and never-failing good sense which are 

 the crov/ning merit of our best English edi- 

 tions of the Classics, all combine to make 

 this one of the most valuable additions to the 

 knowledge of Greek literature which we have 

 had for many years.... A glance at the very 

 complete indexes, for which our heartiest 

 thanks are due to the care of the Public 

 Orator, will show the extent of the contribu- 

 tions thus made to our knowledge of Aris- 

 totle's language. It involves, too, frequent 

 discussion of points of syntax, in which we 

 have again and again to admire the same 

 precise scholarship which reproduced for us 

 the Gorgias and the Plinedo with a photo- 

 graphic accuracy far more welcome than any 

 la.x paraphrase, howe\ er graceful. But what 

 we have especially to admire is the clearness 

 with which the train of thought is brought 

 into the fullest light, and illustrated from 

 a wonderfvil acquaintance with Aristotle's 

 other writings.... Mr Sandys's own additions 

 are of much value, although they are gene- 

 rally very brief, except in the third book. 

 Indeed, while recognising the strong reason- 

 against swelling the bulk of the Commentary, 

 we are inclined sometimes to wish them a 

 little more numerous." — Spectator. 



" This work is in many ways creditable to 

 the University of Cambridge. The solid and 

 e.xtensive erudition of Mr Cope himself bears 

 none the less .speaking evidence to the value 

 of the tradition which he continued, if it is 

 not equally accompanied by those qualities of 

 speculative originality and independent judg 

 ment which belong more to the individual 

 writer than to his school. And while it must 

 ever be regretted that a work so laborious 

 should not have received the last touches of 

 its author, the warmest admiration is due to 

 Mr Sandys, for the manly, unselfish, and un- 

 flinching spirit in which he has performed his 

 most difficult and delicate task. If an English 

 student wishes to have a full conception of 

 what is contained in the Rhetoric of Aris- 

 totle, to Mr Cope's edition he must go." — 

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