MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF JOHN CONINGTON, LATE CORPUS PROFESSOR OF LATIN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. EDITED BY J. A. SYMONDS, M. A. LATE FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD. WITH A MEMOIR BY H. J. S. SMITH, M.A. LL.D. F.R.S. FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE; SAVILIAN PROFESSOR OF GEOMETRY, OXFORD. EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE REPUTATION of Professor CONINGTON as a scholar will rest upon his editions of the Choephoroe and of the works of Virgil and of Persius. As a translator he will continue to be known by his verse renderings of Horace, of the Æneid, and of the Agamemnon. In the Miscellanies now offered to the public he appears both as a scholar and a translator; but their distinctive mark is what, for want of a better phrase, may be styled literary versatility. Professor Conington approached scholarship from the point of view of literature, rather than of philology. As a scholar he was drawn to literature; as a man of letters he inclined to scholarship. Throughout the Miscellanies we trace this blending of his two main interests. By the arrangement I have adopted in this book, the articles on English literature are followed by what will appear the most important section of the work, the Lectures on the History of Latin Poetry. To these succeed a few papers of pure scholarship. The first volume is completed by two essays on Liturgical questions, which during the last years of his life greatly occupied Mr. Conington's mind. In making this collection I have availed myself of nearly everything in print or MS., with the exception of |