1939-12-16 — Page 11

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1939.

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Professor Murray's 'Persians'

The Persians of Aeschylus. Translated into ¦ likely has been; but it could not English rhyming verso by Gilbert Mur-read ns it does if it had been put in Fay, New York: Oxford University print sooner. 11 1s by no means contemporary with his "Electra" of Euripides, for example, which was published 30 or more years ago.

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PRANSLATION of classic works

grows freer all the time, though It may be sald to have been fairly free always. For turning a plece of writing from one language into on- other can scarcely ever be literal and at the same time interesting Probably no translator ever doubted that he gave the meaning of the original near enough, even when he

From a quick glance, a render would adjudge the "Persions" as Just another Murray rentlering of a Greek play into English rhymes; tha old- school poetic style oguin standing in evidence, the highly coloured diction of yesteryear, the same romantle handling of scene, and the same chivalric treatment of character. over-stepped the borders and added Pronouns and verb forms of the secand person singular reappeor, par-

다

fancy of his own, bis intention

being to tell what this or that pnstleipial-adjectived with the not "ed"

sage means to him now and here, rather than to repent what it meani to some pedantic« predecessor.

separately articulated; not to men- tion "I wot," "* 'mid,” and “ah me.”

Nevertheless, " remarkable dif- Now in Gilbert Murray's version ference shows. Professor Murray of the "Persians" of Aeschylus, we

has studied and mastered rhythms have a works that belongs not only to

In degree that gives him a place the front Ile of modern verse Fifth-Century Athens but also to the present

moment. The book moymakers. His "Persians" overi- have been in the Oxford scholar's table schoolbook of prosody. thought for a long time, and most

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Notes on Insomnia

INSOMMA HOTE: COUNDS MADE BY

LEAVING THE MOUTH AJAR AND FORCING

AR TO AND FRO ACROSS INTERVENING ORIFICES OFTEN CAUSE LOSS OF SLEEP....TO OTHERS.

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VIGNETTES OF LIFE

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(HIS MANIFESTATION OF NO-SHUT-EYE **

IS ALMOST ALWAYS" TRACEABLE TO OVER- GENEROUS INDULGENCE IN DEVILIDCOAR OR WELSH DAREBIT...... OR TOOY MUCH WELL OILED CONVERSATION.

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"CONVALESCENTS INSOMNIA, GENERALLY CAUSED BY CLOSE PROXIMITY OF FEMALE WHO STUFFS GLASS TUBE INTO THE FACE AT FREQUENT INTERVALS AND HOLDING WRIST AT SAME TIME, NOTE:" PULSE VERY RAPID.

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SUDDEN AND PROLONGED ATTACKS OF INSOMNIA SOMETIMES OCCUR WHEN DORMITORY INHABITANTS DECIDE TO GIVE THE WELKIN A GOOD GOING OVER ........ INCLUDING YOU.

EARLY MORNING INSOMNIA OFTEN CAUSED, ON SCHOOL DAYS, BY SEVERE EAR ACHE.

IT IS NOTED THAT VERY LITTLE SLEEP IS POSSIBLE JUST AFTER ACQUIRING NEW PUP WHICH SEEMS TO RESENT ABSENCE OF ITS MOST" | IMMEDIATE RELATIVES AND REFERS TO SAME AT FREQUENT INTER- VALS. LOUDLY.

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ACTIVE INSOMNIA, ALSO KNOWN AS GALLOPING JITTERS. MOST SEVERE ATTACKS OCCUR AFTER READING NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS OF GOVERN- MENT PROSECUTION OF INCOME

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CONSIDERABLE LOSS OF SLEEP NOTED AFTER EVENING AT THE CLUB OR IN OTHER STRICTLY MALE ENVIRONMENT: THIS IS SOME- TIMES TERMED RAISING-THE-ROOF AND MOUTH DISEASE.