This book is a sequel to the author's well-known ' Homer' 1903 (Italian translation 1910; the author announces a second German edition) and deals with Homer himself and the secrets of his art. Pp. 5-34 give a sketch, interesting if rather depressing, of the present state of 'Homerforschung,' pp. 34-71 lay down the Gri•ndidee (in Belzner's words) that 'Der Dichter giebt uns die Regeln fiir sein Schaffen, nicht wir ihn.' Pp. 76-346 are devoted to a very minute analysis of Book 5, the longest and perhaps the least interesting of the books of the Iliad (rb 7ro~' Los ro7 vol OL" Kov (ipEL remarks the scribe of Laur. 32.3). Herr Drerup is a convinced unitarian, and his method is in essence the same as that of Blass, Rothe and Belzner, viz. to shew by means of a detailed consideration of the text that the discrepancies, weaknesses and contradictions which have caught the eye of critics from time to time all proceed from the hand of the Master, and are part of his art and his mental outlook. On the whole the results appear solid, and indeed it is a facile if tedious task to refute line by line the blind wild assertions of nineteenth century critics. At the same time the method, like any method, can be pushed to excess, and the reviewer does not feel entirely easy that every line of E came direct from Homer or was his deliberate intentional composition.The demonstration seems to import too much reasonableness into trifles, Homer never nods, and we seem on the way to a devotional Bible-exegesis.It is better to admit imperfect assimilation of material, and the limitation exercised on the artist by tradition and even vested interests. Moreover the pure psychological method is inevitably subjective, and requires keeping in control by external evidence, when there is any, and by the essential question 'what has Homer in such and such a passage done to his source ?' I cannot believe for instance that Homer invented the lists of minor personages, or that their names were chosen for their meanings and that Adpi7 is connected with ipwc (either really or in the poet's belief). I note that Herr Drerup puts Homer late, as late as the Cycle, and that the Tlepolemosepisode, the most valuable thing in the book, is called 'Dorian.' How a son of the Hercules who sacked Troy under Laomedon can be Dorian does not appear, nor why Hercules semper et ubique need connote Dorian. The remains which prove a Mycenaean settlement of Rhodes, Cos, etc. are ignored. But these are rather questions for ' Homer zweite Aufl.' T. WV. A. Tendenz, Aufbau und Quellen der Schrift vom Erhabenen. Von HERMANN MUTSCHMANN. Pp. vi + 114. Berlin : Weidmann, 1913.