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...Horace? The greater the author, the more he suffers, because power of expression is always a chief part of the outfit of a great author. Certain phrases may be translated, like the famous: "They make a solitude and call it peace" of Tacitus, but who ever saw a satisfactory version of the concluding paragraphs of the Life of Agricola...
Prof. C. H. Toy is translating and annotating the book of Ezekiel for the prospective version of the Old Testament under the editorship of Prof. Haupt...
...Does the evidence offered by the two cycles justify Dr. Hohfeld in his statement that the Tameley Miracle Plays were taken from an early version of the York cycle...
...said Professor Kittredge, that Tennyson has given to Gawain such a frivolous and even tricky character. It is certainly annoying to anyone who knows the old romance to see the noblest knight of the Round Table thus insulted. Tennyson could have been acquainted only with Malory's later prose version of the story, for his characterization of Gawain is identical with Malory's. But Malory's tale is entirely unlike the original romance. In all the early stories of Gawain, he is not the man that Malory and Tennyson have pictured him. He is an ideal knight, a champion...
...play this year is an exceedingly witty and amusing one. It is called "Antony and Cleopatra," or "The Sinner, the Siren, and the Snake," and is still another version of the oft repeated tale of love of the Roman and the Egyptian. Following is the cast of characters...