I have read Arrian's expedition of Alexander, together with Quintus Curtius.

I have at stray hours read Longus's Romance and Xenophon's Ephesiaca; and I mean to go through Heliodorus, and Achilles Tatius, in the same way.

Longus is prodigiously absurd; but there is often an exquisite prettiness in the style.

Xenophon's Novel is the basest thing to be found in Greek.

[Xenophon the Ephesian lived in the third or fourth century of the Christian era.