One drama, at least, was acted in Athens in that year440 B.C. which you, I doubt not, know well"Antigone," that of Sophocles, which Mendelssohn has resuscitated in our own generation, by setting it to music, divine indeed, though very different from the music to which it was set, probably by Sophocles himself, at its first, and for aught we know, its only representation; for pieces had not then, as now, a run of a hundred nights and more.

This right of separation is simply the liberum veto resuscitated for the benefit of federal institutions.

Which God was pleased to do in his mercy, for presently he showed them land, at which it seemed that all were resuscitated from the death which they looked upon as certain if the ships were not repaired.

'L'Homme à l'Oreille Cassée' (The Man with the Broken Ear)the story of a mummy resuscitated to a world of new conditions after many years of apparent deathshows his freakish delight in oddity.