The poems of which some renderings are here offered to those who cannot read the originals cover a period of about a thousand years. The poets of the _elegy_ and the _melos_ appear in due succession after those of the _epic_. A little gem from Mimnermus (seventh century B.C.) is the first in the collection, and some lines from Macedonius (sixth century A.D.) mark the close. The interpretation of these lyrics has been the author’s sole and grateful distraction during a period of ceaseless work and intense anxiety in the tragic years of 1914 and 1915—“yet another proof,” says a review in the _Morning Post_, “of the worth of true poetry as manna for the soul in these dread and inexorable days.... The little book is like a vase of rose-leaves, faded yet fragrant, which, as you pour them out, whisper sympathy from the dead to the living.” BY THE SAME AUTHOR. BALLADS OF THE FLEET. By SIR RENNELL RODD. _A New Popular Edition. Crown 8vo._ =2s. 6d. net.= In this edition a new poem, entitled “Inter Arma Silent,” is printed as an introduction, and all matter has been eliminated which has not strictly to do with the sea. The volume appears during a struggle even more stern and momentous than that recorded in the Ballads. But the chivalries of the sea and the test of high endurance are the same as in the days of our fathers, and while the Island race endures the spirit of Drake, who sleeps “’neath some great wave,” will never call to them in vain. THE SOUL AND ITS STORY. By NORMAN PEARSON, AUTHOR OF “SOME PROBLEMS OF EXISTENCE,” ETC. _One Volume. Demy 8vo. Cloth._ =10s. 6d. net.=