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History of Ancient Greek Litera-
ture. By Harold n. Fowler. Phi. D., pro-
lessor in the College for Women Of Wes-
tern Reserve University. New York: D.
Appleton & Co. Twentieth Century Text
Books. Price, 81. 40 net.
The author has properly devoted the greater
portion OF this book to the literature OF Greece
before the rise OF Alexander and the Mace
DOMAIN empire, for it was then that the lit
crazy product OF the wonderfully flexible and
expressive language was in the high tide of
its glory and dominated the intellectual world.
The decadence of Greek literature dates from
the beginning Of the third century B. C. to o29
A. D., when the Emperor Justinian ordered
the schools Of the Greek philosophers to be
closed. The Alexandrne period extended
from about 300 b. c. to the Roman conquest
OF Greece in 146 B. C. The author gives
prominence to the early period from the tenth
to the end OF the sixth century B. c., and to
the following Attic period in the fifth and
four centuries B. c., when Athens was the
great center of literary activity and original
creative genius produced masterworks in his
tory, philosophy and oratory. There was
vast literary product OF which we have but
comparatively small surviving percentage,
and We may console ourselves with the theory
OF the survival OF the httest. and may be
very thankful that we have the Had and the
Odyssey, Plato Aristotle, Xenophon, Thucy-,
dides. the great tragic poets, and Aristoph-
anes. Demosthenes, sappho, Anacreon, Pin
dar, Hesiod and others Of that caltber.
The author devotes much space to the Ho-
merlo poems, and the various kinds OF Greek
poetry, and to the various schools Of philoso-
ply, and his account Of Greek literature in
the later period up to Justinian's time, is
valuable. The volume is we'll illustrated.
Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth
Century. By Estelle NJ. Hurll. Boston !:
Mn Co. the
Is cents net: SO cents postpaid
The Riverside Art Series Is effecting the
laudable purpose Of the publishers in popu-
larizing the best productions Of the genius of
art and art criticism. Miss Hurll has made
the books of this series, which have been
favored with her fine descriptive and critical
comment, eninently useful well as attrac-
tive. In the Tuscan Sculpture there are
sixteen pictures reproducing works by Dona-
tello, the greatest name in Italian sculpture
previous to Mchelangelo. In the interval
between these two came Luca della Robbia.
whose special subjects were women and chill
dren. Art was still religion in the fifteenth
century, and the expression of the new art
as contrasted with that Of Greek sculpture
aspred to the saints and martyrs and angelic
beings Donatello's Musical Angels is il
the selection. with his "St. John the Baptist
and ''St. George" There are several exam
pies from I4uca and Andrea della Robbia
notably madonna and child of the former
and The Annunciation' Of the latter, repro.
duced from the altar piece at La Verna. There
is, too, beautiful example Of Mino da Fie
sole's work in photo of the shrine in the
church of Santa Croce, Florence.
Drewitt's Dream. BY W. l.. Alden. New
York: d. Appleton & Co.
This is capital story, beginning with wha
would seem to be the climax Of a love episode
Drewitt, an Englishman, taking observation
afeld during the last GraecoTurklsh war, Il
borne along on his horse by the Greek arm,
in a panic, fleeing from the Turks. beau
tiful woman appeals to him from the fugutiv
crowd to save and protect her and he take
her on his horse and they escaped from tn
mob to encounter the Turks and he
seriously wounded and left for dead Mean
time, while in flight he and the woman fal
in love with each other and pledge them
selves to love eternaly. When ne RECEIVERS
in hospital, the woman has disappeared, blu
the vision is imbedded in his brain and h
regards the incident as real. The cream c
the story is found in ,Drewitt's patient efforts
under manifold discouragements, to find tn