From the introduction of Simonides' poem to the end of the dialogue, however, the commentator does not increase his pains in the latter regard so much as the increasing complexity of the treatment might well deserve. Still the ample introduction helps here, and introduces us thoroughly into this brilliant dialogue, with its perfect and brilliant dramatic art, and the number of celebrated characters figuring in it, Socrates, Protagoras, Prodicus, Critias, Callias, Charmides, Alcibiades, Pericles' two sons, and others. The comparative youth of Socrates, the less developed enmity to the Sophists, and Protagoras' condescending prediction that Socrates is likely to be heard of some day, casting over the dialogue the freshness of a dewy morning, agree well with the inviting appearance of the edition.

The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by George Herbert Palmer, Alford Professor of Philosophy in Harvard University. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company. 1891. Pp. vi, 387. $2.00. - The translator's ideal has been, he says, "to give to the thought of Homer a more direct and simple expression than has hitherto been judged admissible, . . . in the wording, to discard originality, and to make free use of the fortunate phrases of preceding translators; but to employ persistently the veracious language, the language of prose, rather than the dream language, the language of poetry;" yet to mark "the permeating joy" by a simple, unobtrusive rhythm; to make it plain that this ideal is unattainable, and yet to commend its attainment to others. As compared with Lang and Butcher, the rendering has less charm, but more body. The rhythm does not succeed in being quite as unobtrusive as the translator purposed, and might, therefore, well have been somewhat more varied. But it is a worthy and satisfying rendering of this the more charming of the two great epics of Homer, that one whose commingling of classic perfection with Germanic romance and domesticity makes it so endlessly delicious to us, the children of the north.

Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in Philology, Literature, and Archæology. Vol. I., No. 1. Poetic and Verse Criticism of the Reign of Elizabeth. By Felix E. Schelling, A. M., Assistant Professor of English Literature in the University of Pennsylvania. N. D. C. Hodges, Agent for United States, Canada, and England, 47 Lafayette Place, New York, N. Y. Max Niemeyer, Agent for the Continent of Europe, Halle a. S. Germany. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1891. Pp. 97. $2.00 (subscribers, $1.50). This monograph gives a full account of the confused impressions and endeavors of English critics when as yet English poetry meant little except Chaucer, and our forefathers were either unconscious that they were about to assist at the birth of the greatest of all poetical literatures, or that it was already born but they did not yet recognize it. It is interesting to watch the fluctuations to and fro of thought and taste, between the desire to cramp the muse that was to be in the fetters of classical verse, and the perception that our language is of another make, and is capable of things as great in its own way. Sidney and even Spencer were, happily only for the moment, seduced into the school of senility. But the voices were already strong that claimed for our tongue its own metrical rights, which Spenser and Marlowe and Shakespeare and their fellows, without waiting for the final verdict of the theorists, proceeded to demonstrate par voie du fait.

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