WHEELER liked what Mr. Clarke said, and added that there was meaning in the Irish phrase, “_Lower me up_.” MARGARET said that all the punishments of Tartarus expressed baffled effort, the penalty least endurable to the active Greek. MR. MACK thought it singular that in every nation where the belief in Tartarus had prevailed, an exact locality had always been assigned to it. WILLIAM WHITE said that, so long as anybody could point out the locality of the garden of Eden, we had no need to smile at the locality of a Tartarus or an Elysium. I do not think these “myths” belong to the same class. CHARLES WHEELER quoted Champollion to the effect that the Styx was only a small river flowing between the Temple at Thebes and a neighboring “place of tombs.” The ferryman was named Charon, and the Egyptian habit of judging the dead probably gave rise to the rest of the fable. MARGARET said, “This was very natural.” She asked Mr. Wheeler the meaning of certain names. Phlegethon, he answered, meant burning fire; Acheron, anguish. Why did not somebody say that the lifeless current of the Styx first tempted Homer to give it to the Infernals? It is in reality a river of Epeiros. The Styx, WHEELER said, was a cold unhealthy stream, like that which caused the death of Alexander. It flowed slowly through Acadia, but was supposed to take its rise in Hades. Lethe is a river near the Syrtus in Africa. It disappears in the sand, but rises again. Hence its name. MR. WHEELER had some difficulty in explaining certain inconsistencies in the poets. MR. CLARKE quoted the remark of Achilles (?) concerning Elysium,—that a day of hard labor on earth was preferable to an eternity of pleasure in Elysian fields! MARGARET said that in Elysium, as in Tartarus, souls waited. These restless Greeks could do nothing. They were cut off from action, which was their delight. All their punishments seem to consist of frustrated effort,—the consequence of some presumption. Tantalus was ever thirsty and ever famished because he had aspired to nectar and ambrosia. Ixion, who would have scaled the heavens, was condemned to incessant revolution upon a wheel, which never paused yet never accomplished anything. The Danaides, who murdered the love which wooed them, were doomed to fill a broken vessel with water which as constantly escaped. Sisyphus, who had never labored except for a selfish end, was to roll a stone up hill, which as constantly rolled down,—fit emblem of all selfish labor. As for Tityrus, who sought to violate the secrets of Nature, the vulture fed always upon his entrails. WHEELER said this did not represent frustrated effort.