Pausanias, and other Greek Sketches. By J. G. Frazer. (Mac-
millan and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Frazer has done well to republish in what may be called a popular form some of the most generally
interesting matter in his great edition of Pausanias. We had the pleasure of expressing our admiration for that work in the Spectator somewhat more than two years ago (April 23rd, 1893), and could not help commenting at the same time on the inade- quate support tendered by the public. There are thousands of men who will give six guineas for a dozen of champagne for them- selves or a hat for their wives, but would be simply appalled by the idea of spending as much on a book. Some hundred private persons were found to pay so much for the Pausanias, and about half as many more copies were subscribed for by sanguine, we hope not too sanguine, booksellers. Mr. Frazer has now given to the public the introduction and some selected specimens from the notes. Among the latter are to be found " Marathon," with the highly interesting account of the excavation of the burial mounds by the Greek Government ; the "Capture of Corinth by Aratus," doubtless a fragment preserved by Plutarch from Aratus's own "Commentaries," one of the most regrettable losses of antiquity ; "Olympia," with the note on the Zeus of Phidias ; the "Hermes of Praxiteles," perhaps the most valu- able recovery in the province of art that could be mentioned ; and "Delphi." Finally, there is the article on "Pericles" which appeared in the " Encyclopmdia Britannica."
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