Flosetdi Graeci Boreales ; sive Anthologia Graeca Aberdoniensis.
of Greek verse, chiefly iambic translations from English dramatists, which Professor Geddes has collected and edited, and to which he has himself made a very considerable contribution. There is much elegant work in it, and we especially welcome its appearance, in these days of "rebuke and blasphemy," when men do not scruple to speak light of an accomplishment which our fathers, perhaps going a little to the other extreme, thought a sufficient qualification for a bishop.
We give a specimen, not of the iambics, but of a less common metre.
It is the last stanza of "A Man's a Man for a' That." We give the English, which every one may not remember :— " Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth o'er a' the earth May bear the gree, an' a' that !
For a' that, an' a' that It's comin' yet, for a' that, That man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be, for a' that :"
"24)0.5mee' dr Tax' IKE IV
nal yip avapicrrair
xpdvov •rbv dinahrrar, live narraxog Te) aaos 000) Mal T' liparat.
lari5Aorro b' avTdwpeµva (pie, tp8dvos, CMSTOS TE, SAWS Sl warraxoi; Tijs
etrepwrov ins liSfA4n5r ifrOporros acnrcGrarro."
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