19 JUNE 1880, Page 15

A VOICE FROM THE SHADES.

THZ EDITOR OF THN arm-morel

&n,—I think you treat me somewhat unfairly in your number of June 5th (which we have only just received down here). You take the occasion of a review of a work called " Hellenica "to call me small-souled. Did I not love, honour, and, to the best of my power, cause to be loved and honoured by others, the greatest-souled man of my time, Socrates ? Do you not owe me some knowledge about him which you could ill spare ? You say that 4 loved not Athens ; and, indeed, to do so was not very easy, after she had administered the cup of hemlock.— I am, Sir, &c.,