The two fanciful stories of Echo and Narcissus, and Alpheus and Arethusa, which form the sixth and ninth in this series, are among the prettiest of Nature myths, and are characteristic Greek inventions. The chase of Arethusa under the sea by the river-god Alpheus was to a Greek the most natural of fancies, for to him all water was protected by, or identified with, some god, nymph, or spirit; and the fancy was especially easy to a dweller in the limestone district of Arcadia, where streams may run underground for long distances, and reappear as full-grown rivers from a cavern at the foot of the hills. The tale of Echo in its present form comes only from Latin poetry (Ovid); but the fancy that Echo was a spirit or nymph, which is the heart of the story, may well be of unknown antiquity, especially among the most imaginative of races, living in a land of rocky hills, the native home of echoes. Of the remaining stories (Pygmalion, Orpheus, and OEnone), the briefest comment will suffice. The beautiful and pathetic tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, which is best known to us from the incomparable version of it at the close of Vergil's fourth "Georgic," we know on good evidence to have been extant at least as early as Æschylus (fifth century B.C.), and possibly much earlier. The touching story of OEnone is post-Homeric, and is known to us only from Ovid and Apollodorus. It is familiar to all Englishmen from the two beautiful poems of Tennyson, which are respectively among the earliest and latest of his works. The strange yet striking tale of Pygmalion also comes to us from Apollodorus; and though it may be much older, it is perhaps not likely to belong to an earlier time than the fourth century B.C., a date which seems to be suggested both by the character of the story, and the development of the art of sculpture implied in it. It only remains to commend these beautiful old stories, in their English dress, to the favour of those for whom they are intended. A. SIDGWICK. OXFORD, _September 9, 1908_. CONTENTS THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX EROS AND PSYCHE HERO AND LEANDER THE SACRIFICE OF ALCESTIS HUNTING THE CALYDONIAN BOAR THE CURSE OF ECHO THE SCULPTOR AND THE IMAGE THE DIVINE MUSICIAN THE FLIGHT OF ARETHUSA THE WINNING OF ATALANTA PARIS AND OENONE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.