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The Trireme. By E. H. W. Meyeretein. (Basil BlackwelL 3s.)—A

fantasy describing drinking bouts and competitive lying between an Athenian and some Sicilians. It is amusingly written and resembles in parts an expurgated translation of the Supper of Trimakhio. The spirit of a classic romance is well caught.