1 JULY 1916, Page 11

But though we can enter upon the Greek spirit through

trans- lations—it was in order to accomplish this that Jowott spent so many years of his life in giving us Plato, Thucydides, and Aristotle in a version which, above all things, should be good English reading—we are far from disputing that those who have the scholar's feeling should be encouraged to devoted themselves as Greek scholarship in the finest and most sublimated sense. We want a continuing interpretation of the Greek spirit, and therefore neeti interpreters like Professor Murray to "stand by" to make such changes in the focus as circumstances have rendered necessary. Each generation requires a slight readjustment of the rendering.