26 NOVEMBER 1921, Page 26

Sir Herbert Warren has printed a charming lecture, given to

University Extension students last August, on Virgil in Relation to the Place of Rome in the History of Civilization (Blackwell, 2s. net). He discusses Virgil as the typical Roman poet, preach- ing pietas, " loving duty, dutiful love," as the highest virtue, but possessed also by a strain of myiticism. He draws attention to Virgil's influence on Dante, Goethe, Keats and Tennyson. The parallels between the Aeneid and some fine Tennysonian passages, as in the Lotus Eaters, are excellent.