Satisfied with the translations published by Bohn, the reading public of the latter part of the century made little demand for any other similar collection of books. The only series of translations of any importance which was published during these years was _Ancient Classics for English Readers_, and these contained only selections from the authors with a great amount of introductory matter. These works, edited by the Reverend W. Lucas Collins and published by Blackwoods, were sold at two shillings and sixpence a volume. Of the twenty authors translated in this collection twelve were Greek. The series was more educational in its nature than any preceding one and the outlines and analyses in the books were intended for those who had little or no classical knowledge. The next classical library of interest to the general reader was _The New Classical Library_ in which were published translations of Herodotus, Plutarch, and Theophrastus between 1906 and 1909. The last library and one which bids fair to take the place of the Bohn _Classical Library_ is the _Loeb Classical Library_, which was begun in 1912. Once more an attempt is being made to supply the English reading public with adequate translations of all the classics. Inasmuch as it is at present incomplete little can be said of it at this time; but it seems assured of success.
In addition to the translations published in purely Greek and Latin collections many translations were included in the general collections of books which became popular in the latter part of the nineteenth century and are still in vogue. In such libraries as the following were published translations from the more popular Greek authors, e.g., Aristotle, Herodotus, Homer, Plato, Plutarch, and the dramatists: _Morley's Universal Library_ (1884), _Cassell's National Library_ (1887), _Lubbock's Hundred Best Books_ (1891), _Temple Classics_ (1897), _Golden Treasury Series_ (1901), _World's Classics_ (1902), _New Universal Library_ (1906), and _Everyman's Library_ (1906). There are a few other sporadic publications in other libraries, which have been noted in the _Survey_ as they occur.
As the publication of "classical libraries" is a nineteenth century development, so the introduction of schoolboy helps began with the early years of the century. The work of T. W. C. Edwards in the twenties and thirties was intended for schoolboy consumption. At the same time one or more persons hid behind the all-inclusive authorship of "Graduate of the University of Oxford" to produce literal translations of the works of the dramatists. In the middle of the century much of the work of Doctor J. A. Giles was done to help the schoolboy over hard places. In 1870 and the following years a new series of translations of the dramatists was brought out by a "First-Class Man of Balliol College." Roscoe Mongan, whose translations were to a large extent published in _Kelly's Keys to the Classics_, began his work in 1878. These translations went over the ground covered by his predecessors, and spread out into history, epic and philosophy. Evidently the schoolboys of his time found them very useful, for many of them were reprinted within a few years.