Pausaniae Description of Greece. Translated into English by Arthur Richard
Shilleto, M.A. 2 vols. (Bell and Sons.)—No doubt these volumes would have been the better for a careful revision. They contain errors and omissions. But they are certainly an im- provement in point of correctness on what had been done before in translating Panatelas, while they are written in an easy, readable style. It would be ungracious to criticise with a severe minuteness what must have been a laborious and, we are afraid, not very remu- nerative task. We prefer to thank Mr. Shilleto for giving the English reader a fairly adequate rendering of one of the most interesting remains of classical antiquity. Pausanias is known in a general way as a mine of information on the art, and, it may be said, the history and even the life of ancient Greece. But few, even among scholars, are aware how well worth reading he is. A very interest- tag book might be made out of the anecdotes which he relates.
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