Classical Greek Poetry.

Houghton, Mifflin, and Co. have just published from the Riverside Press a volume entitled "Classical Greek Poetry," by R. C. Jebb. Professor Jebb was a member of the class of '84 at Harvard, and is now Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge.

The book is made up of a series of lectures delivered in 1892 on the Percy Turnbull Memorial Foundation in the Johns Hopkins University. They are printed as they were delivered, with the exception of a few slight changes. The subjects taken up are the distinctive qualities of the Greek race as expressed by Homer, Greek poetry, both epic and lyric, the Attic drama, and the permanent power of Greek poetry. A separate lecture is also devoted to a discussion of Pindar's style and his relation to epic and lyric poetry.

The author says in the preface: "I should like the book to be considered as a member of a series, to which other volumes, by other writers, will doubtless in due course be added; a seris deriving unity from the Turnbull foundation, and associated with the university, whose place among elder sisters is already one of such peculiar distinction.