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 PROPER PRONUNCIATION OF GREEK. 69 poet, is Dimitrius Bikelas. His " Loukis Larras" is one of the best novels of our time, and has been printed in elegant editions and translated in- to many languages. Next to this masterpiece are his stories, known and translated into several lan- guages. D. Bikelas translated several of Shake- speare's dramas into Greek in a masterly man- ner. His translation of Andersen ' s Fairy Tales is so beautiful that we are in doubt in which form we like it better — in the original or in this Greek translation. The glory and prosperity of Greece are things of the future, not alone of the past. They are to come in the ordinary course of events, and not by the vain attempt of a return to the past. The beautiful, like the Greek language, is like sunshine upon this world: the beautiful lives forever ! REMARKS AT THE LECTURE OF DR. A. ROSE. BY PROF. S. STANHOPE ORRIS, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY A few years ago, a vigorous attack was made upon the required study of the Greek language as a condition of an academic degree. The at- tack was made presumably on the ground that