19 AUGUST 1893, Page 26

Studies of the Greek Poets. By John Addington Symonds. 2

vole. (A. and C. Black.)—This is a " third " edition. Some rearrangement has taken place, the order of the studies being now chronological. The mimiambi of Herondas have been the subject of a new " study," illustrated by a translation into idle matio prose. This method of presenting his subjects to hie readers has indeed been largely used by Mr. Symonds in this edition, and largely increases its value. His versions are com- monly felicitous,—the work of one who added to a scholarship which was elegant and sufficiently exact an unusual poetical gift.