SAPPHO.

A NEW POEM FOUND. The directors of the Egypt Exploration Fund, Dr. B. P. Grenfell and Mr. A. S. Hunt, have discovered a new poem by Sappho at Oxyrhynchns, in Egypt, which- has been translated by Mr. J. M. Esmonds and published in The Times:— "The fairest thing in all the world some say is a host of horsemen, arid some a host of foot, and some again a 'navy of ships, but to me 'tis the heart's beloved. And 'tis easy to make this understood by any. When Ilelen surveyed much mortal beauty she chose for best the destroyer of all the honour of Troy, and thought not so much either of child or parent dear, but was led astray by Love to bestow her heart afar ; fol" woman is ever easy to be bent when she thinks lightly of -what is near and ideal 1 . Even so you to-day, my Anactoria, remember not, it seems, when she is with you. one of whom I wouM rather the sweet sound of her footfall and the sight of the brightness of her

beaming face than all the chariots and armoured footmen of Lydia. I know that in this world man cannot have the best ; yet to pray for a share in what was once shared is better than to forget it." Perhaps no writer of antiquity, whose works have come down to us so fragmentarily, is so well known to us, at any rate by name, s.s Sappho, the seventhcsntui'y poetess of Lesbos. Until recently she was represented by only two short but exquisite odes, together with a few fragments which had been preserved by other writers ; but these pieces, one of which is also known in its Latin version by Catullus, were perhaps enough to justify in modern eyes the poetess's great reputation in the ancient world. hJince, however,- Egypt, the classical hunting-ground for lost texts, began during the present generation to reveal its treasures, a good many fresh fragments of Sappho have been recovered, and her fame, as well as that of her contemporaries, now rests on a firmer basis.

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