| + + | Spec. 95: 468. S. 30, ‘05. 1330w. |
Luccock, Rev. Naphtali. Royalty of Jesus and other sermons. [*]50c. Meth. bk.
Beauty of thought and simplicity of language mark these sermons which apply the teachings of Christ to the conditions of to-day under the titles: The royalty of Jesus; The fullness of Christ; The power of a surrendered life; The face of Jesus Christ; The brook in the way; The gospel for an opulent civilization; The cry of the disinherited; The song of Moses and of the Lamb.
Lucian (Lucianus Samosatensis). [Work of Lucian of Samosata]; trans, by H. W. Fowler, and F. G. Fowler. 4v. [*]$4. Oxford.
Four handy volumes in which the translators have happily rendered idiom by idiom and “literary allusions, quotations, and technicalities of law, philosophy, or art are neatly turned to apt analogues. They sound every note in Lucian’s compass, from the mock-heroic serio-satiric eloquence of the Nigrinus, the angry contempt of the False prophet and the Death of Peregrine ... to the solemn trifling of the Fly ... and the demonstration by Socratic induction in the ‘Parasite’ that dining out is better than dining.” (Dial.) The fourth volume contains a list of notes which explain all allusions to classical biography and mythology.
[*] “The renderings of Messrs. Fowler have all the ease and ‘élan’ of a work originally written in English.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
| + + | Acad. 68: 846. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1680w. |
“Their translation is decidedly good; they have ventured on some daring modernisms, but these we can tolerate if only lightness is secured.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 294. S. 2. 2420w. |
“The translation is admirably executed in the freer manner of Jowett’s ‘Plato.’” Paul Shorey.