NOTE ON THE REVIEW OF THE ELEVENTH VOLUME OF GROTE'S
HISTORY OF GREECE.
In a recent notice of his eleventh volume, we expressed surprise that Mr. Grote had quoted the so-called Platonic Epistles as genuine, without alluding to the doubts entertained by scholars on this point. We have since found that the mistake was entirely on our aide; and that Mr. Grote had in his preceding volume discussed the question, and given his reasons for accepting the epistles as genuine and authentic. We thought it odd that he, who usually runs to dissertation on such points, should have omitted any notice where it was so obviously necessary ; and we re- ferred back to the tenth volume to assure ourselves of the fact, which our memory after a year's interval had not retained. But we trusted to his voluminous index rerum, instead of turning over the pages of the volume itself, where we should have found the needful matter in a note towards the end.
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