FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

The Speeches of Aeschines, with an English translation, by CHARLES DARWIN ADAMS '77, Ph.D. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919. Pp xxiii+528

This addition to the "Loeb Classical Library", together with several issues since August, 1919, when it appeared, brings the number of volumes already published up to onehalf of the two hundred originally projected, — a "Series that is to include all that is of value and of interest in Greek and Latin literature, from the time of Homer to the Fall of Constantinople." The volume here noticed includes the three speeches, '"Against Timarchus", "On the Embassy", and "Against Ctesiphon", — all that is preserved of Aeschines, and all preserved, apparently, because each was spoken in opposition to Demosthenes.

Conforming to the plan of the Series, book presents a compact introduction, "the original text on one page and the best obtainable English translation facing it on the opposite page", and a serviceable index to the translation.

It was consistent for the discriminatingEditors of the Series to commit the edition of Aeschines to the Lawrence Professor of Greek in Dartmouth College because of his recognized mastery of Greek Oratory in its political as well as its finer linguistic and literary attributes. There were no adequate English translations. Translation, the best obtainable, — was the task. Professor Adams has used his mastery of English and of Greek in making these translations not only "accurate and idiomatic" but also sustainedly alive and adequate, without defilement in reproducing the unmistakable meaning of the nasty social pathology of the Timarchus, and without debasement by resort to colloquial flippancy in putting over the exuberant vituperations of boundless personal hate that doubtless gave momentary theatrical thrills to an audience which would show its disapproval! when it came to vote.

The purpose of this book by Professor Adams and of its companions in the Classical Library is best expressed by the projector and generous sponsor, Mr. James Loeb. Writing in 1912 at the beginning of publication, Mr. Loeb said in part; — " These books will appeal not only to scholars who care for a uniform series of the best texts, and to college graduates who wish to renew and enlarge their knowledge with the help of text and translation, but also to those who know neither Greek nor Latin, and yet desire to reap the fruits of ancient genius and wisdom. Some readers, too, may be enticed by the text printed opposite the translation to gather an elementary knowledge of Greek and Latin, thus greatly enhancing the interest of their reading; while the teacher of modern literature will, I trust, find these books useful in the effort to make his students acquainted with the prototypes of practically every style of modern literary composition."

"Plane Trigonometry and Numerical Computation", by Professors J. W. Young and F. M. Morgan, has been published by the Macmillan Company.

"The Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, N. H.: Its First Quarter Century", by Professor Emeritus John King Lord, has been published by the Trustees of the hospital in a pamphlet of thirty-nine pages.