CONTENTS. Origins of Barbarian History. THOMAS HODGKIN, Notes on Two Passages of Horace. P. SANDFORD, M.A., 68 Butler's Indebtedness to Aristotle. WM. A. GOLIGHER, M.A., Note on Acts XVI. 1-8. NEWPORT J. D. WHITE, B.D., Notes on Cicero Ad Atticum XV. J. S. REID, HON. LITT.D., 136 234-256 HERMATHENA. WH ORIGINS OF BARBARIAN HISTORY. HEN the great ethnological revolution, which the Germans call Völkerwanderung, took place, and the Teutonic nations, set in motion by the impact of the Huns from Asia, poured like a cataract into the Roman Empire, they came, as we all know, with but slender materials for constructing the history of their own past. Or, if this be too broadly stated, if the Barbarians had, in their Sagas and their war-songs, ampler historical information than we generally recognise as their inheritance, at any rate it is safe to say that they brought very little with them which the learned men of the nations whom they conquered were both able and willing to assimilate. Hence has arisen the mist, tantalising and difficult to penetrate, which hangs over all the earlier pre-Roman life of the natives of modern Europe. Had the learned men of the Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries had the slightest conception of the part which the descendants of these unwelcome guests would play in the future history of Europe, doubtless some Herodotus or Diodorus would have arisen to preserve for us such traditions as yet lingered among them as to the past generations of their forefathers. But that golden opportunity was lost, save for a few scraps of Gothic and |