In the " York Library " (G. Bell and Sons)
we have a republica- tion of Plutarch's Lives, Translated by George Long and Aubrey Stewart, 4 vols. (2s. net per vol.) Mr. Long translated thirteen of the fifty Lives, all his selections being characters of Roman history, a subject which he had specially studied. Mr. Aubrey Stewart, who had the countenance of Mr. Long in the completing of the work, translated the remainder, and all the Comparisons. These last number twenty-one. For some reason Plutarch did not think fit to compare Themistocles and Camillus ; he included in one comparison Agis and Cleomenes with the two Gracchi. Artaxerxes, Aratus, Galba, and Otho were apparently added—the last two almost certainly, as interesting to Plutarch's contemporaries, but of no great intrinsic interest—to complete the fifty. These four are not furnished with Comparisons. This work appeared first in " Bohn's Standard Library" in 1880-82.
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