6 JULY 1918, Page 26

The Poetry of Lucretius. By C. H. Herford. (Manchester Univer-

sity Press, and Longmans and Co. Is. net.)—Professor Herford's eloquent lecture at the John Rylands Library on Lucretius was de- livered six months before Lord Morley in his Recollections expressed in very similar terms his admiration for the great Roman poet. The coincidence illustrates the steady revival, in a modern world racked with doubts, of esteem for the valiant old Epicurean who despaired of paganism, and yet would have man face his destiny with courage. His melancholy, as Professor Herford says, went Hong with " an enormous sense of life."