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Volume I of “Lyra Graeca” (Loeb Classical Series), 1922, edited by Mr. Edmonds. This book supplies the latest and most complete text of the poetess that can be offered to the classical scholar, but the emendations to some of the most recently discovered fragments are very extensive, tentative, and conjectural. Sappho and the Sapphic metre have always had an interest and an attraction for English adventurers in verse, and in most collections from the pens of the greatest and the least are to be found specimens of such imitations or paraphrase. A description of these, however, does not belong to a bibliographical account of the works of Sappho in English.