Item 368 - Letter from Sir George Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan

Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Thanks Robert for sending [Richard Winn Livingstone's] "The Greek Genius and its Meaning to Us"; Sir George's current reading of Herodotus has brought that home, with 'the description of the barbarous cruelties, and personal bloody despotism, of the Orientals - and the degraded and irrational superstitions and worship of Egypt' emphasising what the Greek victory over Persia 'saved the world from'. Thinks Walter Leaf, who visited last week, is probably right that the last five books of Herodotus were written first. They have had a 'perfectly delightful "Collins"' from Julian, who uses the word 'enjoyment' or enjoying' five times; it is a 'first-rate thing' not to be afraid of repeating a word if it is sincerely meant.