a paper on Musaeus, in which he conclusively proved that the author of Hero and Leander was, in metre, prosody, accentuation and phraseology, an imitator of Nonnus (1876). The poem, which the elder Scaliger regarded as the work of the ancient Athenian bard, was thus finally placed among the latest products of Greek literature. Boissier Brilliancy of style, combined with a sympathetic insight into Latin literature and a genuine interest in Roman archaeology, was the leading characteristic of Gaston Boissier (1823-1908). Born amid the memorials of Roman civilisation at Nîmes, he became a classical professor in 1847 at his native place, and ten years later in Paris, where he rose to the distinguished position of professor of Latin literature at the Collège de France (1865), and Member of the French Academy and the Academy of Inscriptions in 1876 and 1886 respectively. His early writings on Attius and Varro (1857-61) were surpassed in fame by those on Cicero's Letters, and in particular by that on 'Cicero and his friends' (1865, 1892"), with its accurate and life-like portraits of the orator and his great contemporaries. His subsequent works dealt with 'Roman religion from Augustus to the Antonines' and 'the Opposition under the Caesars' (1874-5). His work on Tacitus, with an appendix on Martial (ed. 2, 1904), was exceeded in importance by his admirable volumes entitled La Fin du Paganisme (1891). As a felicitous restorer of the old Roman world, he attained the highest degree of success in his Promenades archéologiques on Rome and Pompeii (1880), followed by Horace and Virgil (1886), and L'Afrique Romaine (1895). The present writer vividly remembers being part of the large audience at the Collège de France, during one of Boissier's lectures on the Letters of St Augustine, and also being accompanied by the Nouvelles Promenades during a solitary ramble near the site of Horace's Sabine farm in the valley of the Digentia. Greek literature was well represented by Amédée Hauvette (1856-1908), in his early days a skilful writer of original 1 Cp. La Grande Encycl. s.v.; Athenaeum, 13 June, 1908; and Salomon Reinach, in Revue archéologique, Mai-Juin. The Mélanges Boissier (with a portrait) were published in his honour in 1903. Latin verse, who entered the School of Athens in 1878, visited Ionia and Caria, Lesbos and Cos, and took part Hauvette in the archaeological exploration of Delos. He was the first to write a paper on the small copy of the Athena Parthenos discovered near the Varvakeion'. In 1885 he published his valuable constitutional treatises on the Athenian Strategi' and on the King-Archon. The literature of Greece was, however, the main theme of his lectures in Paris. A second visit to Hellenic lands was followed by his attractive volume on 'Herodotus, as the historian of the Medic wars'. He also published learned and interesting monographs on Simonides, Archilochus, and Callimachus, which can be studied with advantage by the side of the comprehensive volumes on Greek Literature by the brothers Croiset❜. Walter Headlam verse. We turn in conclusion to our latest loss in our own land. Walter George Headlam, of Harrow and of King's College, Cambridge (1866-1908), gave early promise of his distinction as a composer of Greek As Fellow and Lecturer of King's, he devoted not a few years of his brief life to emending and translating Aeschylus, and a brilliant passage from this translation was quoted in his memorable praelection of January, 1906. He also collected a large inass of materials for the illustration of the Mimes of Herondas. On the death of Sir Richard Jebb, he was entrusted with the revision and completion of that scholar's edition of the Fragments of Sophocles. His aptitude for emendation was exercised from time to time on the text of Greek authors of all ages, whether writers of prose or of verse. He had a special gift for the elucidation of Greek lyrical metres, while his volume of versetranslations from Greek into English, and from English into. Greek, gave signal proof of his exquisite taste as a sympathetic interpreter and a felicitous imitator of the Greek poets'. Only 2 Bibl. des Écoles françaises, no. 41. 1 B. C. H. v 54-63. S. Reinach in Rev. Arch. 1908, 282-4; cp. Rev. Int. de l'Enseignement, 170 f, and Rev. des Études grecques, 1—12. Journal of Philology, xx 294 f, xxi 75 f, xxiii 260 f, xxvi 233, xxx 290f; Class. Rev. xiii 3 f, etc.; Restorations of Menander (1908). A Book of Greek Verse (1907); cp. Meleager (1900) and contributions to Cambridge Compositions (1899). nine days before his death, he had the pleasure of meeting Wilamowitz, who, in the course of his brief visit to Cambridge, said of some of Walter Headlam's Greek verses that, if they had been discovered in an Egyptian papyrus, they would immediately have been recognised by all scholars as true Greek poetry1. Many of his happiest renderings were inspired by the poets of the Greek Anthology. In the words of one of those poets, we may say of him, as of few besides, that, so long as he survived the Cambridge composer of the Pindaric ode to Bologna, some echoes of the old Greek music could still be heard: ἦν γὰρ ἔτι προτέρων μελέων ὀλίγη τις ἀπορρώξ, ἐν σαῖς σωζομένη καὶ φρεσὶ καὶ παλάμαις. 'Some little spark of ancient song, Some fragment still Was left us, lingering in thy soul : 1 The Times, 22 June, 1908; cp. Athenaeum, June 27. A Book of Greek Verse, 147, from Leontius in Anth. Pal. vii (Epigran · mata Sepulcralia) 571. INDEX Abbott, Evelyn, 441 Aelian (Cl. Aelianus); Iercher (1858, Aelianus Tacticus, in Köchly-Rüstow's 17; Bekker, Dobson, Baiter-Sauppe, Aeschylus, Laur. MS, Merkel (1871), 194, facsimile (1896); ed. Schütz (1809-15), 398; Wellauer ('23 f), Prom., Septem, Persae, Agam., Halm on, 196; M. Schmitz, 153; Engl. tr. Plumptre, Swanwick, Aesop, ed. Koraës (1810), 362; Halm Aesthetics, 22 INDEX. Aetna, ed. Jacob (1828), 127; Munro Agathias, ed. Niebuhr, 81 Ahlwardt, Christian Wilhelm, 97 n. 2 Alberti, Johann, ed. Hesychius, 15 Alciphron, ed. Bergler (1715), 3; Allatius, Leo, 356; ii 361 America, United States of, 450-470; Ammianus Marcellinus, Hertz on, univ. 291 Anacreon, J. F. Fischer (1754 clc.), 14; V. Rose (1868); Bergk in Pöet. Andocides, in Reiske's Or. Gr.; Sauppe, Or. Att.; K. C. Schiller Andreas Lopadiotes, 152; (2) Val. Reiske (1754), 17; Brunck's Ana- Anthologia Latina, Bücheler-Riese Anthon, Charles, 466 Antiphon, in Reiske's Or. Gr., and Sauppe's Or. Att.; Maetzner (1838), 431; |