CLASSICS FOR THE AMATEUR.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your reviewer- (Spectator, February 28th) speaks of the high standard of Jowett's translation of Thucydides as "
main-
I tained" by Crawley. It seems due to a witty and eccentric
man, whose death in early middle life, leaving no other serious work, but this very good, was a great sorrow to his friends, to observe that Crawley's book appeared in 1876; Jowett, who makes a suitable reference to his predecessor's work, followed in 1882. Crawley's translation was published, in a handsome volume, by Longmans, and is dedicated, with permission, to " Connop Thiriwall, Historian of Greece." He himself had something of the nomad in him, and was difficult to locate at any time. It was as needless for him to emphasize on his title- page that he was a " Fellow (non-resident) " of Worcester College as to apologize in his Preface for " the unavoidable dulness of a translation."—I am, Sir, &c., A. 0. P.
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