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tolerably perfect examples had been purchased, parts of which 
were exhibited. In their stomachs were found whelks, crabs, 
and a considerable number of pebbles; and in one a conger eel. 
He drew attention to the fact that the teeth were not universally 
blunted as it had been stated. . 
On certain alleged misrepresentations and discrepan- 
cies in Plato's Theetetus. (Grorsz’s Plato, oh 
u. c, xxvi.) By HE. M. Corr, M.A. 
Tur Author commences by expressing the obligation which he, 
in common with all scholars, feels toward Mz Grote for the light 
which, by his extensive learning and independent criticism, he 
has thrown, in general, upon the Platonic doctrines and writings. 
Plato stood in especial need of an impartial statement and 
thorough sifting of the doctrines attributed to him; owing to the 
preconceived notions which had so influenced those who had un- 
dertaken the task of interpreting him, that students were too 
often led to look for what Plato might have said or ought to 
have said rather than what he did say. 
Mr Cope gives two instances of these bars to the mght un- 
derstanding of Plato. 
(1) The theory held by Schleiermacher, that Plato’s dia- 
logues are not only all pervaded by one spirit and tone of feeling, 
but also can be fitted together so as to form essential parts of 
one complete system. 
(2) A tendency to unduly harmonize and interpret by 
inference rather than by the direct statements of the author, 
and so to represent the miscellaneous collection of the Platonic 
