Whether the twentieth century will carry on the width of interest of the nineteenth is hard to say. Until the war broke out the present century bid fair to equal its predecessor. With the coming of the war, however, translation from the Greek has been forced into the background and how long it will remain there, is, at this time, a matter of conjecture.
If this table has done no more, it has at least furnished an interesting thermometer of public taste through the centuries that are past. In all generations where the public has had the opportunity of choosing what it would have from Greek literature, the choice has been along lines very similar in taste to the prevailing literary interest. What lies in the future is hard to say, for practically everything of importance has been translated. Probably we shall see repeated what we are witnessing to-day: the retranslation of Greek literature for each succeeding generation into terms of its own conception. Bohn's _Classical Library_ is now in the process of being replaced by the _Loeb Classical Library_ and I dare say sixty years hence some other "library" will replace this one. Greek literature is no longer a hidden pearl, and, although the interest in the language may vary with the generations, the people of England and America have evidently found in it a worth which they desire to keep. If they had not, the following list of translations would never have been possible.
A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TRANSLATIONS
NOTE.--In all cases where no place of publication is mentioned London is to be understood.
1. The most delectable and pleasant historye of Clitophon and Leucippe, written in Greeke, by Achilles Stacius an Alexandrian and nowe newlie translated into Englishe by W. B[urton]. [1597?] 4o
2. The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe. A most elegant History, written in Greek by Achilles Tatius. And now Englished [by Anthony Hodges]. Oxford. 1638. 4o
3. The loves of Clitophon and Leucippe ... translated from the Greek, with notes, by ... R. Smith. 1848. 8o [Bohn]
4. Achilles Tatius. With an English translation by S. Gasalee. 1917. 18o [Loeb Classical Library]
_American Reprint_: [_Loeb_] _New York, 1917_.
1. A Registre of Hystories, containing Martiall exploites of worthy warriours, Politique practises of Ciuil Magistrates, wise Sentences of famous Philosophers, and other matters manifolde and memorable. Written in Greeke, by Aelianus a Romane: and deliuered in Englishe (as well, according to the truth of the greeke text, as of the Latine) by Abraham Fleming. 1576. 4o BL