21 FEBRUARY 1880, Page 25
Miss Keith tells some nine of the old stories from
the Greek mytho-
logy, and draws out the moral from them. It is a thing that has been often done, in one way or another, before. But it has to be
done over again for new generations, which soon find the moralising which pleased or instructed their elders tedious and unprofitable. The stories are not of equal merit,—" Hercules," for instance, which stands first, is not as good as "Midas."