A Victor of Salamis. By William Stearns Davis. (Macmillan and
Co. 6s.)—Mr. Davis tells again n, story which the world is never weary of hearing,—Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea. He has considerable success in making his readers realise the life of the time. The Greek statesmen and the Persian nobles are at least human beings ; whether they are like the real Greek, the real Persian, is another matter; but there is no one who can either affirm or deny. The hero is a young Athenian, Glaucus by name, who is condemned for treason, flies for his life, and so comes to see the Persian camp from within. All this is sufficiently well managed. The weakness of the book is in some details, which count, it may be, for more than they are worth. "Phi/date—as we say in Athens." What they said in Athens was Philtate. Makaria is all right in speaking to a woman, but Makarie is not right for a man. It should be maker or Inakarie. " Zeus, Guardian of Oaths," should be Zeus Orkies, not " Orchius." " Phrynicus" should be Phrynichus and " Siphinus" Siphnos.
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