1 OCTOBER 1921, Page 24

We are glad to see a reissue of F. W.

H. Myers's Essays Classical and Modern (Macmillan, 12s. net), formerly published in separate volumes. The opening essay on " Greek Oracles," with its characteristic touch of doubt—" whether we have indeed so fully explained away the beliefs of the world's past, whether we can indeed so assuredly define the beliefs of its future "—is still fresh and suggestive. All the essays, indeed, are well worth reading again, for Myers wrote admirable prose, and was a detached and dispassionate critic of the great moderns like Hugo, George Sand, Renan, and George Eliot.