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Newman's Politics of Aristotle - The Politics of Aristotle : with an Introduction, two Prefatory Essays, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. By W. L. Newman, M.A., Hon. Litt . D. Cambridge, Fellow of Balliol College, and formerly Reader in Ancient History in the University of Oxford. Vol. III Two Essays. Books III., IV., and V. Text and Notes. Pp. xlvi, 603. Vol. IV. Essay on Constitutions, Books VI.–VIII. Text and Notes. Pp. lxx., 708. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1902. Price 28s.

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page 166 note 1 De Pol. Arist. Quaestiones Criticae: 1886, p. 446Google Scholar. Mr. Newman is throughout so scrupulous in pointing out anticipations of his views, that this must have been overlooked by him.

page 167 note 1 Mr. Newman employs curved brackets for words conjecturally inserted in the text as well as for marks of punctuation.

page 167 note 2 e.g. 1275 b 32 with P4 Qb Tb Ls. I have noted thirty-two similar instances in the last six books. To these should be added 1252 a 15 om.II3 Bk. and fourteen other instances in Books I and II.

page 167 note 3 An eminent scholar has declared that he deliberately prefers to quote from it, in order to escape the ‘bad tradition’ of inferior authorities. In view of the facts this seems very like ‘out of the frying pan into the fire.’

page 168 note 1 The following is a list of emendations introduced by Bekker2 in Books III—V: 1282 a 11 Coraes; 1286 a 32 <γρ> Bk2 ; 1330 b 5 Lambinus; b 7 πιλεπειν Coraes ; 1333 b 31 Scaliger ; 1333 b 38 [τατα] Bk2 ; 1334 b 1 γνεσθαι Schneider; b 11 [καἰ] Coraes ; 1335 a 38 σενονσαν Zwinger; 1336 b 4 Lambinus; b 17 τοτους Reizius; 1340 a 27 αὐτο Ar. Lambinus, Scaliger; ib. κενον Lambinus, Scaliger ; 1340 b 8 [ιὰ] Bk2. In all of these Mr. Newman following Susemihl returns to the text of the MSS. and of Bekker.1 Space forbids me to quote thirty similar instances in the last three books. To these must be added four instances in Books I and II.

page 168 note 2 It seems to me that a re-arrangement of MSS. Is desirable. The agreement of P2 and P3 should be indicated by a special symbol—say II4. It would immensely simplify matters if II3 were consigned to the rubbish heap, and if, while P1, P2, P3, M3 and the Vatican Palimpsest, which have been carefully collated, were retained in the apparatus criticus, occasional variants of the inferior MSS., and renderings of Moerbeke and Aretinus, were cited only when they are really helpful.

page 168 note 3 Susemihl made some 945 innovations in Bekker's original text. Of these Mr. Newman has adopted some 304, if my. calculations are correct. Taking the books as numbered by Mr. Newman, the figures are : Book I., Susemihl 70, Newman, 14 ; Book II., Susemihl 162, Newman 33; Book III., Susemihl 137, Newman 36; Book IV., Susemihl 184, Newman 62; Book V., Susemihl 72, Newman 27; Book VI., Susemihl 124, Newman 53; Book VII., Susemihl 128, Newman 56 ; Book VIII., Susemihl 68, Newman 24. It will be noticed that the proportion is highest in the last three Books, and lowest in Books I and II. I hare included proposals for transposition and the bracketing of words amongst the innovations I have counted, but not changes of punctuation generally.