The Classical Review, Vol. 19

Excerpt from The Classical Review

After it was disposed of, Mr. R. L. Leigh ton read a short paper on the educational utility of Latin. In contrast to Mr. Leigh ton's quiet dialectic and subtle analysis stood the more dashing treatment of Mr. Rice Holmes, the historian of the Indian Mutiny and the campaigns of Caesar, who pressed home the value of classics for science and mathematical students and candidates for the Army and the need for reform in the teaching here, with martial directness. The Rev. A. J. Church thought that more attention should be paid to the English of translations. Mr. F. J. Terry urged that beginners should be set down to Latin which dealt with incidents of a boy's life, and Prof. Conway emphasised the importance of bringing out early the differ ence between poetry and prose.