30 JANUARY 1915, Page 10

We are glad to see a cheap edition of Messrs.

Lang, Leaf, and layeree admirable prose version of The Iliad of Homer (Macmillan and Co., 3a. Gd.), timely reading when the wrath of n very twopenny Achilles has once more "brought on the Achaians woes innumerable, and burled down into Hades many strong souls of heroes."