THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGG ae 
The Silver Age of the Greek World 
By JOHN P. MAHAFFY 
Sometime Professor of Ancient History in the University of Dublin 
5 students of ancient life and thought Professor Mahaffy’s scholarly litt 
volumes on the history of Greek civilization need no introduction, Ox 
of these the University Press has already been privileged to publish, 7 
Progress of Hellenism in Alexander's Empire, and another is shortly to apes 
The Silver Age of the Greek World, which covers the period from the Rom 
conquest to the accession of Hadrian, tracing the spread of Hellenism in As 
Egypt, and Italy. To classicists the chapters on Cicero and Plutarch will bee 
especial interest, while general readers will be attracted by those that deal w= 
religion and literature in the first century. (To be published early in 1906) 
First Russian Reader 
By SAMUEL NORTHRUP HARPER st 
Graduate of L’Ecole des Langues Orientales, Paris; Associate in Russian Language © 
Literature in the University of Chicago. 
M®*® HARPER, who has studied his subject extensively in Moscow, Beri 
and Paris, is bringing out a First Russian Reader an adaptation © * 
French book compiled by Paul Boyer and N. Speranski, of the Ec ie 
Langues Orientales. The text for reading consists of stories from Tolstoy, 
there are grammatical and explanatory notes and a vocabulary. (Tomer 
lished early in 1906.) — ll 
The Metaphorical Terminology of Greek 
Rhetoric and Literary Criticism 
By LARUE VAN HOOK 
Preceptor in Greek and Latin in Princeton University. f the mot 
Gs this dissertation Mr. Van Hook aims to determine the cen fine thet 
obvious figurative terms, and to classify them accordingly; t© ‘. sini 
uses as critical terms by English and Latin equivalents; and ich critic 
terms and parallel passages from the literature of Latin and Englis 
52 pp., royal 8vo, paper; net 75 cents, postpet ae 
The Idle Actor in Aeschylus 
By FRANK W. DIGNAN 
HIS dissertation is an attempt to show that the false ar 
is ridiculed by Aristophanes was largely due to the prim 
and immature drama of the period. The argument involves a gene 
of the management of the actors in early drama. 
40 pp., 8vo, paper; net 50 cents, postpaid 53 cents 
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