Westminster Versions

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Excerpt from Westminster Versions: Renderings Into Greek And Latin Verse, Reprinted From The 'Westminster Gazette' It was perhaps a hazardous experiment to start a competition in Latin and Greek verse-making in an ordinary London newspaper. But the experiment has proved successful and interesting beyond the Editor's hopes. This little volume in which have been collected the prize copies, almost as they were written, will show how high the standard of the competition has always been, and what distinguished scholars have been attracted to take part in it. Many evidences, moreover, have reached the Editor that the accomplishment of writing Greek and Latin verses is greatly appreciated by a considerable circle of readers, even in these days when so much is heard of the uselessness of engaging the young in such exercises. The thanks of the Editor are due to the competitors who have allowed him to reprint their versions in this volume, and to Mr. F. W. Hall, Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, who has read the proofs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.