A monthly magazine in little devoted GLEN LEVIN SWIGGETT, Editor Associate Editors 'T is planned to be the meeting-place for those who care for the beautiful and permanent things in art and literature; where one may find, selected carefully from the writings of the master-minds of the past, their best thoughts and appreciations of these things; and where the man of to-day, whether scholar, poet, or artist, may give expression to his love for and abiding faith in those personalities, institutions, and things that reflect a serious purpose and lofty ideal. The journal must needs be brief. It will contain a series of short essays, a connected run of pithy paragraphs, original poems, selections or translations from the great poets or prose writers, and other available matter of a similar character. In the course of the year special numbers will be given to those men and movements that merit such treatment. It is our desire to gain in this simple undertaking the interest and support of all who may feel the need of such a publication, and who understand that we shall not be adding another to a list of "periodicals of individuality and protest" which is probably large enough already. May we not beg your cordial co-operation and secure your promise to subscribe and to influence as many of your friends as possible to do the same? CUT OFF HERE SUBSCRIPTION FORM To THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF SEWANEE, TENNESSEE Enclosed please find Fifty Cents for one year's subscription to THE PATHFINDER, beginning with the ....number. Contributions are invited from all lovers of good books Sewanee Review Quarterly Issued in January, April, July and October Each number consists of 128 large octavo pages, handsomely printed on heavy paper Subscription, $2 a year; Single numbers, 50c HE REVIEW is now in its fifteenth year. It has well proved its value in School, College and University Reading Rooms, and in Public Libraries. It is devoted to reviews of leading books and to papers on such topics of general literature as require fuller treatment than they receive in popular magazines and less technical treatment than they receive in specialist publications. It conforms more nearly to the type of the English Reviews than is usual with American periodicals. Among papers that have appeared in THE REVIEW and have attracted wide attention, the following may be mentioned: National Life and Character, by Hon. Theodore Roosevelt; What Becomes of Our Trade Balances? by W. H. Al len; An Academic Sermon, by Professor W. P Trent, etc., etc. Address THE SEWANEE REVIEW Vol. II] JULY, 1907 [No. I ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER (Reprinted from the Poems of JOHN KEATS) Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Silent, upon a peak in Darien. THE BALLAD OF THE SWINEHERD By BASIL L. GILDERSLEEVE In one of his little sketches, Twenty Minutes for Refreshments, Owen Wister, after describing a scene in which a Southern woman figures, winds up by saying: "What a pity we shall have no more Mrs. Brewtons! The causes that have produced her, slavery, isolation, literary tendencies, adversity, game blood-that combination is broken forever;" and with that combination, I may add, will be lost the key to many of the secrets of antique life, certain sides of which are best understood by the rapidly thinning ranks of the survivors of the old Southern régime. No wonder then that when I was lecturing on the Odyssey, now more than twenty years ago, before a Sewanee audience, I dwelt with a half-melancholy pleasure on the character of Eumaios, the divine swineherd, and made him a manner of centre for my Homeric disquisitions. I used Eumaios as a stalking horse for bringing down the Solar Myth and the story he tells in the Fifteenth Book as a text for an onslaught on the Ballad Theory. To-day, perhaps, these are |