Some Books of the Week A NOTABLE addition to a
series which happily combines charm with erudition is The Oxford Book of Greek Verse (Clarendon Press, fis. 6d.). Those responsible for the selection are authorities who merit our confidence both on aesthetic and academic grounds, and an introduction by C. M. Bowra gives a really brilliant survey of Greek literature in an astonishingly small compass. The selection of an anthology is an un- grateful task, and it is easy enough to ask, according to the reader's predilections, why this favourite lyric or that excerpt was not included, but by and large it is as representative a selection as could be desired. If criticism be permissible in a matter of small moment, it should be said that dialectical spelling and accentuation are not always consistently observed.
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