RECENT FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

The Falcon Press at Princeton, N. J., has recently issued "Numerical Phraseology in Vergil," a dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Princeton University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, by Dr. C. P. Clark.

A few words from Dr. Clark's introduction will show the scope and character of this work: "This study was begun," says Dr. Clark, "with the thought that it might be possible to determine, by a careful examination of the numerical phraseology in the works of Vergil, how far the poet followed in this respect his models or originals and how far he worked independently of them An exhaustive study of the use of numbers by the poets and by the historians would, I am sure, yield much valuable material toward helping us to place a proper estimate upon many numerical statements, either now mistrusted or too rashly credited. It is, partly, with this aim in view that the present study has been undertaken. The primary object has not been simply to collect facts and statistics, interesting or curious in themselves,' but rather to utilize whatever data may be forthcoming as a contribution to our appreciation of Vergil's genius and to our understanding of his poetic technique The main discussion falls naturally into two divisions, represented by the chapters "Fixed Numbers" and "Favored Numbers." My first problem was to assemble under these two categories the pertinent passages, according as these seemed to contain numerals that were fixed by some outside influence that removed them from the operation of the poet's preference, or contained numerals that were due to the poet's unhampered invention. It remained then to determine, under the first main category, what the outside influence was, and under the second category, to discover if possible! — a much more difficult and elusive task — the inventive motives at work in the poet's .mind which led him to choose one number rather than another. The whole process has involved at every stage the important and often difficult matter of interpretation."

Professor R. W. Husband is the author of "The Old and the New in Metrics," published in the Classical Journal for February, 1914. The same journal for January, 1914, contains "The Prosecution of Archias," also by Professor Husband.

Professor J. M. Poor contributes to the Astronomical Journal for May 5, 1914, "Preliminary Results of a Search for Parallelism in the Orbit-planes of Binary Stars."

"The Sipunculids of the Eastern Coast of North America" by Professor J. H. Gerould, is a recent reprint from volume 44, of the Proceedings of theU. S. National Museum.

The American Journal of Science for May, 1914, contains an article by Professor J. W. Goldthwait, "Remnants of an Old Graded Upland on the Presidential Range of the White Mountains."

Vermont Association Notes, volume 7, number 6, contains "Business and Social Morality," an extract from an address given by President Nichols before the Burlington, Vt., Y. M. C. A., February 1, 1914.

Professor T. H. Boggs contributes "The Tariff and Wages" to the University Magazine (Montreal) for January, 1914.