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WALKER, B., The Annals of Tacitus. A Study in the Writing of History. University Press, Manchester, 1960. 2nd ed.(with minor corrections). VIII,284p. Cloth. Cover slightly stained. Spine bit bumped. Fore edge foxed. Signature in pencil on free endpaper. Personal summary loosely inserted.'The fact that Miss Walker's book is now in its second edition is evidence enough to its value. Its starts with a detailed survey, book by book, of Tacitus' treatment of the period, and being in English, this survey has the great merit that it can be read by those who know no Latin as well as by those who know the language. After this, the dramatic and rhetorical qualities of Tacitus' writing are examined, and, in a separate chapter, the baffling problem (...) of 'the divergence in some contexts of factual and non-factual material.' There follows a chapter, which is the best part of the book (...) on 'Tacitus the man' (...) the lessons which life taught him and the prejudices which it implanted in him. (...) Altogether her book cannot be recommended too warmly for the reading not only of undergraduates but also of their elders. It has much to teach us all.' (J.P.V.D. BALSDON in The Classical Review (New Series), 1962, p.155). € 19.50 (Antiquarian)