7 FEBRUARY 1914, Page 18

MR. BLIKENEY'S "ILIAD."

/To we Enna or sus ••Srnrratot"3

Sia,—While cordially thanking you for the very brief but kindly welcome you have been good enough to give to my annotated version of Homer's Iliad, may I point out that it is scarcely to be regarded as a" school book"? Indeed (as I have explained in the preface to Vol. I.), the object of the translation is not to provide a " crib" for schoolboys so much as a rendering that may prove useful to those who know no Greek at all, or who, having learned Greek in earlier days, have grown rusty in their knowledge. And it was with an eye to such readers that the introductions, commentary, and appendices were