HE who is within two paces of the ninetieth year may sit down and make no excuses; he must be unpopular, he never tried to be much otherwise. He never contended with a contemporary, but walked alone on the far eastern uplands, meditating and remembering. To the Idyls a few slight matters have been appended, as tassels are to a purse. The Greek proper names have Greek terminations, not Latin, or French, or English.