7 DECEMBER 1907, Page 9
Stories from Greek History, by Ethelwyn Lemon (T. C. and
E. C. Jack, ls. net), are well told in simple language. Solon, Themistocles, Epaminondas, and Timoleon are among the great men commemorated. But why so strange a picture of Thermopylae ? The Greek position was not on a cliff overhanging the sea.