“So with the poets, legends and exaggeration obtain and in all transcend belief; but in rhetorical figures the best is always the practicable and the true.” Footnote 191: De Pictura Vet. lib. i. cap. 4, p. 33. Footnote 192: Von der Nachahmung der griech. Werke, &c., 23. Footnote 193: Τμῆμα, β. “Next to this is a third form of faultiness in pathos, which Theodorus calls _parenthyrsus_; it is a pathos unseasonable and empty, where pathos is not necessary; or immoderate, where it should be moderate.” Footnote 194: Geschichte der Kunst, part i. p. 136. Footnote 195: Herodotus de Vita Homeri, p. 756 (edit. Wessel). Footnote 196: Iliad, vii. Footnote 197: Geschichte der Kunst, part i. p. 176. Plinius, lib. xxxv. sect. 36. Athenæus, lib. xii. p. 543. Footnote 198: Geschichte der Kunst, part ii. p. 353. Plinius, lib. xxxvi. sect. 4. Footnote 199: See Appendix, note 57. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _Messrs. Roberts Brothers’ Publications._ GOETHE’S HERMANN AND DOROTHEA TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY ELLEN FROTHINGHAM. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. _Thin 8vo, cloth, gilt, bevelled boards. Price $2.00. A cheaper edition, 16mo, cloth. Price $1.00._ “Miss Frothingham’s translation is something to be glad of: it lends itself kindly to perusal, and it presents Goethe’s charming poem in the metre of the original.... It is not a poem which could be profitably used in an argument for the enlargement of the sphere of woman: it teaches her subjection, indeed, from the lips of a beautiful girl, which are always so fatally convincing; but it has its charm, nevertheless, and will serve at least for an agreeable picture of an age when the ideal woman was a creature around which grew the beauty and comfort and security of home.”—_Atlantic Monthly._ “The poem itself is bewitching. Of the same metre as Longfellow’s ‘Evangeline,’ its sweet and measured cadences carry the reader onward with a real pleasure as he becomes more and more absorbed in this descriptive wooing song. It is a sweet volume to read aloud in a select circle of intelligent friends.”—_Providence Press._