21 FEBRUARY 1880, Page 25

Miss Keith tells some nine of the old stories from

the Greek mytho-

logy, and draws out the moral from them. It is a thing that has been often done, in one way or another, before. But it has to be

done over again for new generations, which soon find the moralising which pleased or instructed their elders tedious and unprofitable. The stories are not of equal merit,—" Hercules," for instance, which stands first, is not as good as "Midas."