13 OCTOBER 1944, Page 22

Paidela, the Ideals of Greek Culture. By Werner Jaeger. VoLII.

Translated by Gilbert Higher. (Blackwell. 223. 6d.) THE first volume of this important book was reviewed in these columns on June 16th, 1939. In this second volume Professor Jaeger of Harvard continues his examination of the ideals of Greek culture and promises a third and concluding volume to appear shortly. The first volume dealt with the period from archaic times to the end of the Peloponnesian War, the volume before us is concerned with the fourth century the age of Plato, and together with the final volume will bring to a conclusion this history of the culture of classical Greece.