LUCIANUS, b. Samosata in Syria, 'flourished' in the reign of M. Aurelius

A twentieth-century Englishman, a second-century Greek or Roman, would be much more at home in each other's country, if they had the gift of tongues, than in most of those which have intervened,' and this translation by the authors of the King's English and the Concise English Dictionary is in English of the day.

The Works of Lucian, complete except for some works considered spurious and some omissions by way of expurgation, translated into English by H. W. and F. G. FOWLER. Four volumes. 1905. 16s. net, or separately:

Vol. I: Introduction, pp. i-xxxviii, Life, Order of writings, Circumstances of the time, Lucian as a writer. The Vision, A Literary Prometheus, Nigrinus, Trial in the court of Vowels, Timon, Prometheus on Caucasus, DIALOGUES of the Gods, of the Sea Gods, of the Dead, Menippus, Charon, Sacrifice, Sale of Creeds, the Fisher and Voyage to the Lower World, pp. 248.

Vol. II: The Dependent Scholar and Apology, Slip of the Tongue, Hermotimus or the Rival Philosophers, Herodotus and Aetion, Zeuxis and Antiochus, Harmonides, The Scythian, The Way to write History, The True History, The Tyrannicide, The Disinherited, Phalaris I, II, Alexander the Oracle-monger, of Pantomime, Lexiphanes, pp. 1–276.

Vol. III: Demonax, Portrait Study and Defence, Toxaris a dialogue of Friendship, Zeus cross-examined, Zeus Tragoedus, The Cock, Icaromenippus an aerial expedition, The Double Indictment, The Parasite, Anacharsis or Physical Training, Mourning, The Rhetorician's Vade-mecum, The Liar, Dionysus, Heracles, Swans and Amber, The Fly (an appreciation), To an Illiterate Book Fancier, pp. 1–280.

Vol. IV: Slander, The Hall, Patriotism, Dipsas, A Word with Hesiod, The_Ship, Dialogues of the Hetaerae, The Death of Peregrine, The Runaways, Saturnalia, Cronosolon, Saturnalian Letters 1-4, A Feast of Lapithae, Demosthenes an encomium, The Gods in Council, The Cynic, The Purist purized, pp. 1-190. Notes explanatory of allusions to persons, &c., pp. 191-244. Alphabetical table of contents of the four volumes (English, Greek, and Latin titles), pp. 245-248.

FLAVIUS PHILOSTRATUS of Lemnos, flourished in the third century A.D.

What labour took Philostratus to make a book full of lies whereby he would have had Apollonius Tyaneus in miracles match with Christ? And when he had all done, he never found one old wife so fond to believe him.'Sir T. MORE.

Philostratus' Apollonius of Tyana, translated by J. S. PHILLIMORE. Two

volumes, 1912. 10s. net, or separately: Vol. I, Preface and Introduction, pp. i-cxxviii, Apollonius, the Philostrati, Apollonius before Philostratus, the Author, Apollonius after Philostratus, the Age of Apollonius; Books I-III, pp. 1-142. Vol. II, Books IV-VIII, pp. 256, Notes and Index, pp. 257–296.

LONGINUS, put to death in 273

'Could you ever discover anything sublime in our sense of the word in classical Greek literature? I never could. Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.'-COLERIDGE.

Longinus on the Sublime, translated by A. O. PRICKARD. 1906. Introduction, pp. i-xxviii, translation, pp. 82, appendixes-Specimens from Greek literary critics, Latin critics, Bishop Lowth-Index of Proper Names, pp. 83-128.

ST. PORPHYRY (b. 347, d. 420) is commemorated on Feb. 26

The Life of Porphyry of Gaza, by Mark the Deacon, translated by G. F. HILL from the Greek text first printed in 1874. 1913. Preface and Introduction, pp. xliv, translation, pp. 1-112, notes and indexes, pp. 113–152.

SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS, b. Lugdunum 431, d. 489

'In the civil world' (of the fifth century) we find no real government; the imperial aristocracy is fallen, the senatorial aristocracy fallen, the municipal aristocracy fallen as well. It is a tale of dissolution everywhere. Authority and freedom are attacked by the same sterility. In the religious world, on the other hand, we see an active government, an animated and interested people. If Sidonius failed of greatness as a writer, he surely attained it as a man.'-GUIZOT.

The Letters of Sidonius, translated (into English for the first time), with Introduction and Notes by O. M. DALTON. Two volumes, 1915. 10s. net, or separately: Vol. I, Introduction, pp. clxxxiv, Life and times of Sidonius, his works and style, bibliography and list of correspondence; Translation of Books I-III, pp. 1–86. Vol. II, Translation of Books IV-IX, pp. 3–214, Notes and Index, pp. 215-268.

Two Modern Versions from Old English

The Deeds of Beowulf, an English epic of the eighth century done into modern prose by JOHN EARLE. Reprinted (1910) from the edition of 1892, pp. 104. (Also in cheaper binding, 4s. 6d. net.)

ALFRED, b. Wantage 849, d. 901

'It has ever been my desire to live honourably while I was alive, and after my death to leave to them that should come after me my memory in good works.'-From CHAP. XVII.

King Alfred's Version of the Consolations of Boethius; the Anglo-Saxon text (see

p. 300) done into modern English, with an Introduction, by W. J. SEDGEFIELD. 1900. Introduction, pp. Ivi, the translation, prose, pp. 176, the verse, pp. 177-240, notes and index, pp. 241-254.

ST. BERNARD, b. near Dijon 1091, d. Clairvaux 1153

'I will accordingly admonish you, not as a schoolmaster, but as a mother, at all events as one who loves you. -ST. BERNARD to Pope Eugenius III.

St. Bernard on Consideration, translated by GEORGE LEWIS. 1908. Historical Introduction, pp. 3-10, translation of Prologue and Book I (the claims of business, ‘consideration' and contemplation), II-V, 'Yourself, the things under you, around you, above you, pp. 11-172.

DANTE ALIGHIERI, b. Florence 1265, d. Ravenna 1321

'The task which Dante sets before himself in the Convivio is undertaken in order to gratify that universal desire for knowledge of which Aristotle speaks in the beginning of the METAPHYSICS.'-From the SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.

Dante's Convivio, translated into English (from the text of the Oxford Dante) by W. W. JACKSON. 1909. Introductory Essay, pp. 7-26. 'Some knowledge of the Convivio is indispensable for every one who desires to trace the development of Dante's genius or to understand his relation to the thought and literature of his age. It fills the central space in his history, and is the link between the Vita Nuova and the Divina Commedia. First-Fourth tractates with summaries of contents, pp. 27-300, Notes and index of subject-matter, pp. 301-318.

'Midway in the course of our life I found myself within a dark wood where the right way was lost. And a hard task it is to describe that wood-so wild was it, and rude and stern-which at the mere thought of it renews my fears.'

Dante's Divina Commedia, translated into English prose (from the Oxford text of 1900) by H. F. TOZER, primarily for readers who are not acquainted with Italian, and it is for their sake that brief notes have been added.' 1904. Pp. 448.

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, b. Florence 1469, d. Florence 1527

'Be it known, then, that there are two ways of contending, one in accordance with the laws, the other by force; the first of which is proper to men, the second to beasts. But since the first method is often ineffectual, it becomes necessary to resort to the second.'-From CHAP. 18.

Machiavelli's Prince, translated from the Italian by NINIAN H. THOMSON. Third edition, revised and corrected, 1913.

HEINRICH HEINE, b.

I wandered on and as I went

The Heavens were all a-ringing;

It was the Nightingale, of love
And of love's torment singing.

With an index of persons and places, pp. x, 204.

Düsseldorf 1799, d. Paris 1856

The song of love and love's despair,

Of laughter and of weeping,

With warbling so woeful, such rapturous moan,
Old dreams awoke from their sleeping.

Heine's Book of Songs, translated into English verse by JOHN TODHUNTER.

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