Odes from the Greek Dramatists. Edited by Alfred W. Pollard.
(David Stott.)—In this pretty little volume, Mr. Pollard has col- lected, for the most part with excellent judgment, a number of translations from the three Greek tragedians and from Aria- tophanes, whose choruses, as he very properly recognises, are, on occasion, equal in beauty to the effort of the tragic poets. Now and then we might have wished a change. We do not know, for instance, why Anstice's translations of the odes in the Alcestis, or at least one of them, might not have been given. But, on the whole, Mr. Pollard's selection is good. It contains the names of Robert and Elizabeth Browning, of Dean Milman, W. M. Praed, Hookham Frere, and Shelley, and among living authors, of Mr. Gladstone, Professor Campbell, Mr. C. D. A. Morshead (whose version of the Supplices ode we should have preferred), Sir G. Young, and Mr. Swinburne. The archaic Greek type has a very elegant appearance.
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