themselves groping in the dim light of the most remote antiquity. How readily the Roman satirists ran into caricature all their readers know, except those who take the amusing exaggerations of Juvenal and Horace as statements of fact. During the heat of our antislavery contest, Dryden's translation of the passage in Juvenal which pictures the luxurious Roman lady ordering her slave to be put to death was used by the late Mr. W. H. Fry, in the New York _Tribune_, with thrilling effect: "Go drag that slave to death! You reason, Why Should the poor innocent be doomed to die? What proofs? For, when man's life is in debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate. Call'st thou that slave a man? the wife replies. Proved or unproved the crime, the villain dies. I have the sovereign power to save or kill, And give no other reason but my will." This is evidently caricature. Not only is the whole of Juvenal's sixth satire a series of the broadest exaggerations, but with regard to this particular passage we have evidence of its burlesque character in Horace (Satire III., Book I.), where, wishing to give an example of impossible folly, he says, "If a man should crucify a slave for eating some of the fish which he had been ordered to take away, people in their senses would call him a madman." Juvenal exhibits the Roman matron of his period undergoing the dressing of her hair, giving the scene the same unmistakable character of caricature: "She hurries all her handmaids to the task; Her head alone will twenty dressers ask. Psecas, the chief, with breast and shoulders bare, Trembling, considers every sacred hair: If any straggler from his rank be found, A pinch must for the mortal sin compound. "With curls on curls they build her head, before, And mount it with a formidable tower. A giantess she seems; but look behind, And then she dwindles to the Pigmy kind. Duck-legged, short-waisted, such a dwarf she is That she must rise on tiptoe for a kiss. Meanwhile her husband's whole estate is spent; He may go bare, while she receives his rent."