Of the writing of Greek grammars there is no end, and the reading of them is a weariness to the flesh. Most of them are unpractical enough, and give the student imaginary things for real. How many a boy has been persuaded to accept as good Greek the whole of dear old τύπτω as set forth in the paradigms ever since the first book printed in Greek—the Grammar of Lascaris—was constructed for the torment of the young! How often do rules piled upon rules obscure our sense of a living and real language! It is not, therefore, easy to persuade men that have a long and daily habit of reading Greek to turn back to a grammar, unless they are obliged to look for that most idle of all knowledge—theoretical rules to set down upon examination papers. Yet Prof. Jannaris has overcome this strong repugnance in me, and I labour at his very voluminous and intricate book with profit, and with an interest I never before felt in such a book. Not that he persuades me of all his theories—far from it; but he attacks and strives to solve the standing problems which recur perpetually to the honest student of classical Greek, and which ought, we imagine, to have been long since solved.