24 AUGUST 1895, Page 24

The Mad of Homer. Edited by Arthur Platt. (Cambridge University

Press.)—This volume is a sequel to the same editor's volume of the Odyssey. His work has been purely critical, a conscientious and laborious effort to present a correct text. We

may notice in the first seven lines of it the following variations from the text as Mr. Walter Leaf has it, a text itself an advance:—

PLATT. Leer.

n7)AT/lCi3EW

1. lInXntrIba' 2. Axadig' 'Ax 3. 'Afial ateit balra b. naai

7. favat

The most important is the insertion of the digamma,—a long desiderated reform. Mr. Platt has taken great pains to restore the various corrections of the text to their true authors. Heyne seems to have got the credit for not a few which do not properly belong to him.