The Wrath of Achilles. By Lilian Goadby. (Edwin, Vaughan and
Co.)—Miss Goadby takes for her subject what is doubtless the central story, some think the original story, of the Iliad. It is doubtful, of course, what strictly belongs to it. The aristeia of Diomed (v.-vi.), for instance, does not quite fit in with an
Achilleid, though it is so admirable that Mr. Leaf thinks that it may have been added by "the original author or an immediate successor." The story is well enough told. Bat why Mars and Athene ? If Mars, then Minerva ; if Athena, then Ares. On p. 65 there is a curious error in the story. "Once more Tencer aimed ; again he missed, striking Hector's charioteer Cebriones." Cebriones was really killed by Patroclus. In viii. 318 he is left in charge of the chariot by Hector, who descends, after Archeptolemus has been slain by one of Teucer's arrows, rushes at the archer, and crushes his arm with a huge boulder.
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