21 SEPTEMBER 1907, Page 23

The Myths of Greece and Rome. By H. A. Guerber.

(George G. Harrap. 7s. 6d. net.)—The sub-title promises the reader "the signification and origin" of the myths, as well as the stories themselves. As a matter of fact, this promise cannot be said to be adequately fulfilled. What we have is something like our old acquaintance " Lempriere." The last twenty-six pages, however, are given to the "Analysis of Myths," and the reader may learn something from this. The whole book is scarcely scientific, and not quite scholarly. It is strange, for instance, to find Zeus masquerading under the title of Jupiter. The illustrations, too, are not such as we might expect. The Greek vases would have been a better source than picture galleries.