1 OCTOBER 1881, page 14

Books.

THE MUTILATION OF LITERATURE.* THE literary art of the day has taken a strange turn. Great authors, we are taught, have written too much, and small authors have undertaken to......

Poetry.

IDYLLS OF THE ILIAD.—III. RHESUS. "I, RHESUS, son of great Eioneus- By favour of Lord Ares, King of Thrace, Subject alone to Ares, and to me- _ Hither, at bidding of my father's......