Loeb Classical Library
'OF the seven new volumes of the admirable Loeb -Classical Library (Heinemann, cloth 10s., leather 12s. 6d. each), four are continuations of works already familiar from the earlier volumes. • These are the third of the seven volumes of Professor Guliek's edition of the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus. comprising Books VI. and VII., the sixth of the eight volume of Dr. Jones' edition of the Geography of Sind)°, comprising Books XIII. and XIV., the second of the three volumes of Dr. Norlin's Socrates, comprising " On the ..Peace," " Areopagiticus," " Against the Sophists," " Antidosis " and " Panathenaicus," and the third and last volumes of Mr. Glynn Williams' Letters of Cicero. It is enough to say that these are all well up to standard, though it -remains regrettable that the Greek words and phrases in the Letters are not in general rendered in French. To miss the chance of orriere pensies. for devrepits ,Oporridas instead of the banal,; if not incorrect, " second thoughts," or causer littertaure for car: itaX0Xlryelr, or quant-a-vioi, een eat .assez for d sr hiss Tglbe, seems, to say the least of it, a -pity. -A most interesting addition to the library is a volume including the Immortal Characters of Theophrastus edited and translated by Ir. J. M. Edmonds, and the works of Herodes, Cercidas, and he Greek Choriambic poets, except Callimachus and Babrius, ogether with the Fragments of Hipponax and Ananias for which Mr. A. D. Knox is responsible. It is from such books as the famous Characters and these less-known satires, albeit the latter are in great measure a matter of mere fragments and brilliant conjectures, that we see more closely perhaps than in any other way the everyday pursuits and psychology of the ordinary Greek citizen. Finally, there are the first two of the ten volumes of Philo's volurnirrous religious writings edited and translated by Mr. F. H. Colson and the Rev. G. H. Whitaker. This may be regarded as the definitive rendering of that remarkable writer, since the Bohn translation of two generations ago cannot compare with this, and there is no other. The fusion of Hellenism and Judaism in Philo's work, bringing to mind the problem of Browning's Cleon, makes it of the first importance to students of religion, both Christian and Jewish. He is in these volumes expounding his view of the inner spiritual meaning of, various incidents and texts of Genesis. Altogether a. varied and attractive feast to tempt the appetite of the catholic student of the classics.
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