I procured the magnificent edition of Chrysostom, by Montfaucon, from a public library here, and turned over the eleven huge folios, reading wherever the subject was of peculiar interest.

As to reading him through, the thing is impossible.

These volumes contain matter at least equal to the whole extant literature of the best times of Greece, from Homer to Aristotle inclusive.

There are certainly some very brilliant passages in his homilies.

It seems curious that, though the Greek literature began to flourish so much earlier than the Latin, it continued to flourish so much later.