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 Reviews. 109 in the same dipodia. Nor are our ears quite accustomed to the rhythm of lines like these, ipbv oc toS' epvos depOev, rfv HokvKkavTtjv y I(piyeve[av ; aXX' (v. 1438). On the whole we must say that among the numberless cor- rections of the text of iEschylus which this volume presents, there is not one which strikes us as true : a few however may deserve the praise of ingenuity, e. g. cvirorfiov naiSva s erlpa (v. 218), 7rovavbpov 8e (pepdcnnbes Kvvayoi (v. 641), Kaiovaa ap.7rrr)- povxlas (v. 819), veoyvbv av (3pe(pos p.a8oi (v. 1084), tov xP V0V /3pa/3ev- erat, v. 1221 (though this use of the middle has yet to be sup- ported), Kpdros v l<r6tyri<pov (v. 1389). We have been speaking throughout, of course, of the editor's own suggestions, not of those which he has adopted from other critics, though it would not be difficult to shew that his judgment has frequently been at fault in borrowing a reading as well as in inventing one. We earnestly hope that nothing which we have said may be construed into a general reflection on German scholarship. No nation has done, or is doing, so much to enable us to understand the Greek drama. But we have long felt that the text of iEschylus has for some time past suffered at least as much as it has gained from their hands ; and though we do not believe that Hartung's book would be thought more highly of in Germany than in England, our recollection of the way in which others have dealt with their author will not allow us to regard it altogether as an isolated phenomenon. Why will not some German scholar edit iEschylus as Schneidewin is now editing Sophocles? Such a work would doubtless have its blemishes; but it would be sure to command lasting respect for its poetical feeling, its critical sagacity, and its terseness and general good sense. J. CONINGTON. Hyperides. We have perhaps no more remarkable instance of the seem- ing caprice, which has ruled the destinies of ancient records, than in the preservation of writings of all the orators included in the Alexandrian canon with the single exception of Hyperides. If the thunders of Olympian Pericles have rolled away, leaving