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"Close, spirited, swift in movement, and simple. . . The merits are such as to place Mr. Way's performance in the front rank of Homeric translations. . . Mr. Way's version is never bald, frigid, or pompous. In the point of metrical form it has advanced on all its predecessors ; his metre comes very near, in length, volume, and movement, to being a genuine English equivalent for the Greek Hexameter." — Saturday Review.

"He is a trustworthy scholar; he has fire and speed enough and to spare. He holds our attention ; we read him for his own sake. . . A work which we heartily admire." — Athentziun.

" Mr. Way has accomplished a remarkable feat. A Iine-for-line trans- lation . . rendered with absolute conscientiousness, with scholarlike accuracy, and with unflagging vigour, is a success of which the author may weil be proud." — Oxford Magazine.

" Really a great success. . . There is a sonorous roll in it, and a variety of pause, a flexibility, a richness, and a dignity about it that make it approach nearer to the splendid music of the Greek than any- thing else that has been produced in the same line. The diction, too, of the translation is Homeric, while Pope has smoothed and polished away all character out of his original, and its fidelity is really remark- able.'' — Pall Mall Gazette.

" We feel confident that this spirited and powerful translation will grow in popularity and favour. Turn wherever we may, we read Mr. Way's verses with a different kind of pleasure from that which is derived from the ordinary run of translators." — Westminster Review.

"So accurate and forcible is this brilliant version of Homer's poem, that it will not only recommend itself to cultured readers, but it should also tend to popularise the study of the grand Greek poet's entire work." — Morning Post.

"A faithful line-for-line rendering of Homer. . . A swing and energy which leave most translators far behind. A very high level is maintained from first to last in the Iliad, as if the grandeur of the theme, the sense of noble action, had constrained him." — British Quarterly Review.

"Where the poetry of simple action reaches sublimity, this suits Mr. Way." — Academy.