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' Is this course of study good for me ? does it favour my 

 real progress, my ultimate success ? ' is not fit for the 

 tripos. Thinking of any kind is regarded as dangerous. 

 It is the well-known saying of a Cambridge private tu- 

 tor : 'If So-and-so did not think so much, he might dc 

 very well.' I may content myself with remarking that 

 the particular student who did think too much, and who, 

 perhaps as a consequence, was beaten in the tripos, now 

 stands in scientific reputation above all his contempo- 

 raries. 



An adequate examination of Professor Seeley's 

 arguments, and especially of the practical expedi- 

 ents by which he ' would do away with the evils 

 just mentioned, would carry us far beyond our 

 limits. The volume before us is not one which 

 can easily be epitomized and furnished with a 

 running commentary. So many suggestions are 

 made and questions opened in it that any at- 

 tempt to treat it thus thoroughly would end in 

 the production of a companion volume rather than 

 a brief article. But from what has been said it 

 will be seen that our essayists do not belong to 

 the number of those who disparage classical stud- 

 ies as unfit for the needs of our time. The Phi- 

 listinism which regards everything as useless that 

 is not utilitarian need seek for no encouragement 

 in this book. The claims of physical science are 



