is translated “If my husband had died, I could have married another, if he had failed to get me children, I could have committed adultery.” The “main motive of the Iliad,” we are informed, (p. 76), “is the love of Achilles for Patroclus.” The interest of the _Ajax_ “is meant to centre on Teucer, the _amasius_ of the dead Ajax.” That the _Alcestis_ may not be pressed into the service of those who would maintain that the Greeks knew how to respect women, the key to it is to be found “in the relation existing between Admetus and Apollo”(!) The revolting coarseness and flippant vulgarity which mark the book, and, which do very little credit to Oxford training, are illustrated by the remarks employed to disparage these types of womanhood which the writer well knows would refute his theory. Thus of Nausicaa, “she is always regarded as a charming type of woman; but, after all, how one naturally thinks of her is (_sic_) as a charming type of washerwoman”; of Penelope, “she longs for the return of her husband, no doubt; but what really grieves her about the suitors is not their suggestions as to his death, but the quantity of pork they eat.” On a par with this sort of thing is the remark about a play of Sophocles, which, by the way, is not extant, that “it merely drew the usual picture of the gods playing shove-halfpenny with human souls” (p. 47); or flippant vulgarity like the following--Admetus expresses “his deep regret that he cannot accompany Alcestis, as Charon does not issue return tickets.” If this is the humour of young Oxford, the progress of which we hear so much has been purchased at a heavy price.