been spent on making up this imitation of a log-book,
supposed to 1phip ania. —The captive's doom thou doemest enviable. have been written by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage Electra.— 0 were it mine, wore but my brother safe!
home after the discovery of America, and to have been picked up Electra .--*Twere best he weltered on the uneasy main.
by a fisherman off the Pembrokeshire coast. A rough parchment Electra.—Else much I fear his limbs, repast of kites — cover, ornamented with seaweed and shells, contains some twenty IA{gania,—Lie unentombed on some barbaric strand ?
or thirty discoloured loaves on which tho entries of various Ip fiii i (raja .—I pray the Gods to send ye happier doom."
incidents during the voyage, outward and homeward, are made, But Mr. Garnett should not use "ye" as an objective case.
sundry drawings being added by way of illustration. The great Sappho. By C. A. Dawson. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.) navigator was good enough to consult the convenience of the —There is some good verse in Sappho, but we cannot say that the English nation, which he doubtless foresaw would have a greater poem is really classical, There is too much word-painting, and and more permanent interest in the newly discovered continent the sentiment wants that distinctness and directness which are than oven his own countrymen, by writing the log in English, and characteristic of ancient thought. The story of Sappho, divested fairly modern English too. Here is what he writes when he comes of the unclean imaginings of later times, is a perfectly simple in sight of Toneriffe :—" Lando in sight. In ye distance appeared one. The little that, is left of her poetry harmonises with it ; and a lyttel point° lyke ye top of a mountain°. It must be ye points in this simplicity it is well to leave it. Mr. Dawson's explanations of the Pic of Teneriffe. One dayes more sailing, and we shall lie and amplifications, whatever merit in the way of imagination and before the Canarie Islander.' There we shall speedilie repair the expression they may have, only diminish its effectiveness. Hero damage done to the Pinta, and then leave the world° as known is a passage which is certainly fine, but is about as alien to' at ye present time behind us, and sail bravelie into the unknown classical models as can well be :- distance which is stille covered by ye Bloke of futuritie." It For who would spend his life must be allowed that Columbus wrote very well under the In glare and labour of meridian day, circumstances. Or rest and dream for over in the gloom?
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