POPE'S ODYSSEY OF HOMER.
Amongst recent reprints, a special welcome is due to Pope's Odyssey of Homer (Cassell and Co., 2s. net), Edited, with an Introduction, by Professor A. J. Church, who has already per- formed a similar service for the companion volume containing Pope's version of the Iliad. In his introduction, which is a model of condensation, Professor Church discourses on the history of Pope's collaboration with Broome and Fenton, and other transla- tions, from Chapman's to William Morris's (the omission of Worsley's beautiful rendering rather surprises us). He also deals with the Homeric house, ship, domestic economy, and geography, and has something pointed and valuable to say in every ease. The., we May tlitote his observations on Nausicaa, whose Character, as he noted, is conchisive oh the point of the cendition of wortien irk prehistoric areVcA. " Thete Is nothing like her in the literature of historic Greece, or, itidetal, of Ittntle. She IS the prototype of the lititoine of tabdetn fiCtion, Meeting Men on absolutely equal terms." Mr. Wal Paget's illustrations are pleasing, but, to our mind, lack the dignified simplicity Of Plaxman's outlines.
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