Greece of to-day, seen through the eyes of a practised
write who is steeped in Greek literature and legend—such is A Glimpse of Greece by Edward Hutton (Medici Society, 184 and nothing could be more charming. Mr. Hutton and his friend Mr. Norman Douglas went by car to the famous cities in that wonderful little country, from Atheni to Eleusis and Thebes, and through_ Boeotia and Phocis to rephi, aad 'southward- to Corinth and the Argolis, to Sparta and into Arcadia where shepherds are still surly and their dogs fierce to strangers, concluding with a : mule-ride to Olympia. Mr. Hutton's clear descriptions and his illustrative remini. scenes; and -his occasional dialogues with Mr, Douglas-, arguments about the Hermes, for instance, and other debatable matter's—,are one arc - ell fascinating, and they are supple: mented by many good hotographs: For the Greece that was and the Greece that is Mr. Hutton's book is a most admirable guide. It'ought to- be in every school and college -library,
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