d^ THE CAMBRIDGE BULLETIN ^*? 



No. XXX 



October 191 3 



Collected Literary) Essayis. Classical and Modern. By A. JV. Verrall^ 

 Litt.D., King Edward Fll Professor of English Literature and Fellow 

 of Trinity College, Cambridge, Hon. Litt.D. Dublin. Edited by M. A. 

 Bayfield, M.A., and J. D. Duff, M.A. 



Demy 8vo. pp. cxiv + 292. With a memoir and a portrait. Price lOJ. (>d. net 



Collected Studies in Greek and Latin Scholarship. By the same author and 

 editors. 



Demy 8vo. pp. viii + 372. Price loi. 61/. net 



Not the least interesting portion of the first of the abo-\'e volumes 

 is the Memoir, in which the following 

 passages illustrate two of Verrall's char- 

 acteristics — his Liberalism and his love 

 of nonsense: "And such a Liberal was 

 Verrall, as he himself used to say. 

 Miss Jane Harrison tells a confirmatory 

 story : — 



I remember saying to him apropos of some 

 scholar from whom I differed, 'It is intolerable 

 that people should be allowed to go on talking 

 and teaching such nonsense!' He screwed up 

 a whimsical eye at me and said, ' All right, 

 let's have back the Inquisition.' " 



" But the joy of joys was his manner 

 of reciting humorous verse or pure non- 

 sense, and to find (if it was your first 

 experience of him in this vein) that he 

 took as intimate a delight in it as you 

 did yourself. 'Tragedy!' he once 

 said to me suddenly in the early days ; 

 ' Did you ever hear this .' ' And he 

 proceeded to chant slowly, in rolling, melancholy tones, a once famous 

 song of Toole's (metre strictly dactylic) — 



'A norrible tale I 'ave to tell 



Of the sad di-sasters that befell 

 A noble family as once re-sided 



In the very same thoroughfare as I did.' " 



The Literary Essays include amongst others : The Feast of Saturn, 

 A Villa at Tivoli, The Birth of Virgil, Aristophanes on Tennyson, The Prose 

 of Walter Scott, and '■'■Diana of the Crossways." Of the two last-named 

 The Times says that " they are not only the best essays in the collection, 

 which is saying much, but they are also, beyond comparison, the best 

 essays on their subjects." 



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The late Dr Verrall 



