We are extremely glad that Cambridge University is this week
conferring an Honorary Doctorate of Law on Mr. Loeb, the founder of the Locb Classical Library. Twelve or fourteen years ago Mr. Loeb, taking up thy: Suggestion of his friend M. Salomon Reinach, conceived the idea of making the whole rich treasury of Greek and Roman literature accessible to the English-speaking world by means of the 'best translations into English that could be obtained. Nearly one hundred and sixty volumes of this- justly famous library of translations have already been published with text and translation on opposite pages.* The library is a 'magnificent gift, not only to America, but to Great Britain. We say gift, because the library never had any prospect of being remunerative. Like the Dictionary of National Biography it owed its creation to the munificence of its founder. Some volumes, of course, sell well ; others do not and never will ; but Mr. Locb was determined that his library should be comprehensive.
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