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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 do 

 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 



