6 JULY 1912, Page 34

Proceedings of the Classical Association, January 1912. (John Murray. 2s.

6d. net.)—Among the papers printed in this volume are the Bishop of Lincoln's Presidential Address upon "Hellenism as a Force in History " and Professor Gilbert Murray's lecture upon " The Ritual of Dionysus and the Forms of Greek Tragedy." The latter, which appears in an expanded form in Miss Harrison's new book, " Themis," dwells upon the influence of the sneer iudus Of Dionysus upon the Attic tragedians, and especially upon Euripides. Professor Murray comments with force upon the paradox of the Greek drama—" an outer shape dominated by tough and undying tradition, formal and conventional to the last degree ; an inner life, fiery with sincerity and spiritua freedom."