16 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 21

English-Greek Dictionary of Idioms, Words, and Phrases. By A. Kyriakides.

(Nicosia : Petrides and Nioolaon. 15s. not.)—This book by a Cypriote lawyer is not meant to help a boy to do his Greek prose, but its design is to promote better relations between Englishmen and Greeks, many of whom, as he says, live in different parts of the Empire and in America. The modern literary language of the Greeks is of course deceptively close to the language that we learned at school, but a rendering of "the piano is out of tune," with " kleido- kumbalon" for piano, shows us that this book does not relate to ancient Greece. Mr. Kyriakides is to be commended for his industry and for the ingenuity of many of his versions of English phrases.