Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings and a Literal Translation

A rectangular woodcut headpiece features a bird perched among intricate floral designs, including lilies and leaves, set against a dark, hatched background.

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.

A decorative drop cap initial 'T' inside a square border with a floral background pattern.The cordial reception which the first edition of my little book met with has encouraged me to make many improvements in this re-issue. Unforeseen delays in its production have also helped me to advance upon my first essay. Among other changes, I have been able to obtain a new fount of Greek type, which has to me a peculiar beauty. Unfamiliar though some of the letters may appear at first sight, they reproduce the calligraphy of the manuscripts of the most artistic period of the Middle Ages. This type has been specially cast in Berlin, by favour of the Imperial Government. In a larger size it is not unknown to English scholars, but such as I am now enabled to present has never been used before.

Last Spring a telegram from the Vienna correspondent of the Times announced that some

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