Originally published in College Series of Greek Authors during Victorian times, this work still constitutes an indispensable pedagogical reader for high school and college students of Greek. Each text is given in Greek with an extensive commentary and apparatus in English. The book covers Plato's Apology, Plato's Crito, Extracts from Plato's Phaedo and Symposium, and Xenophon's Memorabilia.

The book ends with a fifty page Greek-English vocabulary covering the entire material.