Books: New Odyssey

THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER—Translated by George Herbert Palmer; illustrated by N. C. Wyeth—Houghton Mifflin ($5.00).

As fewer and fewer people read Greek, translations of the Greek classics become more valuable. This latest Englishing of what is generally considered Homer's better half should win the Odyssey many new readers, should remind many old acquaintances to read it again. Professor Emeritus (Harvard) George Herbert Palmer's translation of the wandering of Odysseus is in prose, but faithful to the letter and spirit of Homer's rolling pentameters.

Sixteen full-page illustrations in color by Artist Newell Convers Wyeth add...