If any girl with an average amount of intelligence can get Butcher and Lang’s translation of the _Odyssey_, she will doubtless be charmed, and any such ideas of repulsion as we have mentioned will be swept quite out of her mind. This translation reads like a romance or fairy tale of old. Jebb’s _Primer of Greek Literature_, published at one shilling, will be a help to its full comprehension, and a Greek History may also be useful. Smith’s _Smaller History of Greece_ is very good. The _Iliad_ and the _Odyssey_ are probably at least twenty-seven centuries old; and they still appeal to the human heart. Mr. Gladstone said he felt himself “in heaven when he was breathing the pure atmosphere of Homer.” And a child also can delight in their pages. The present writer will never forget the charm to her, as a little girl, of Pope’s version of the _Odyssey_, with outline illustrations by Flaxman. Although the _Iliad_ and the _Odyssey_ are poems, the translations that will appeal most strongly to English girl-readers, we think, are the prose versions by Andrew Lang and his colleagues. These are written in an exquisitely simple style, nearer to the original than the sonorous lines of Pope, Chapman, Lord Derby, Worsley, and many others. Besides the _Iliad_ and _Odyssey_, which treat of the very dawn of history, there are other works of which you should know something. One might write a volume on the subject of Greek literature, but it is inopportune here to mention more than a few books. The _Apology_, _Crito_ and _Phædo_ of Plato, are translated in Dean Church’s _Trial and Death of Socrates_. They are dialogues telling that immortal story. The plays of Æschylus are issued in English in Morley’s Universal Library, published by Routledge at a shilling. The _Alcestis_ of Euripides has been beautifully translated by Robert Browning in _Balaustion’s Adventure_, which tells the fascinating story of the capture of a Rhodian girl by the Syracusans, and the way in which she won her liberty by reciting the play _Alcestis_. The plays of Euripides as a whole are well translated by Arthur S. Way, M.A. (Macmillan); and the plays of Æschylus by Dean Plumptre. Miss Anna Swanwick has rendered the _Agamemnon_ of Æschylus into charming English. The student of this literature will find the same names recur again and again. She will soon come to understand its scope, and live in a world of her own—not a forlorn, dry-as-dust world of ruins and ashes, but a bright glad world, which recalls Browning’s words: “Never morn broke clear as those On the dim clustered isles in the blue sea, The deep groves and white temples and wet caves.” This world is peopled with noble men and fair women, and all they do and say is chronicled with a sweet, majestic simplicity that appeals to the heart. Sin there is, and its resulting sorrow and doom; but the lesson is that which echoes from the recurrent words in the chorus of the _Agamemnon_: “Ah, may the Good prevail!”