DR. WALTER HEADLAM. rro THE EDITOR OR TUN "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—On
June 20th last the world of British scholarship lost by the sudden death of Dr. Walter Headlam one of its brightest ornaments. Dr. Headlam, who had been since 1890 a Fellow of king's College, Cambridge, had done much for classical learn- ing, and gave promise of doing much more. He was great as a critic—his last published work was a pamphlet giving con- jectures for restoring the lately discovered fragments of Menander—as a translator from the Greek—he published versions of the Supplices, the Agamemnon, the Choephoroe, the Eumenides, and the Prometheus—and as a writer of Greek verse. Professor W. von Wilamowitz•bliillendorf. who made his acquaintance on the occasion of his recent visit to Cam• bridge, has written some beautiful Greek elegiacs in his memory, and of these I venture to send a translation.—
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