7 JUNE 1879, Page 16

ARISTOTLE AND MR. BRO WNING'S IDYL.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It may be of interest to point out the origin of Mr. Browning's story of " Halbert and Hob "—quoted in your last number—in the " Ethics " of Aristotle (VII., vi., 2) :—' O eAxoEc.¢re4 63-6 voi; vioD vrat;iveeci ixiTeve z-p6; Teti; 8ipat;' Hal ycip atrrO; boo:oar TGII lricripee tziog irrai8a. The story is intro- duced as an illustration of the hereditary .character of anger.