the
inventor of the Locrian mode of music; a considerable piece of the
"Kolax" of Menander, one of the two plays upon which the "Eunuchus" of
Terence was based; part of a rhetorical treatise in Doric dialect, which
is undoubtedly a work of the Pythagorean school; the conclusion of the
eighteenth Keo-Tcfe of Julius Africanus, dealing with a question of
Homeric criticism; and part of a biography of Alcibiades. A new light
is thrown upon some of the less-known departments of Greek literature by
a well-preserved papyrus, which contains on one side a prose mime in two
scenes, a work of the school of Sophron, having points of resemblance to
the fifth mime of Herondas; while on the other side is an amusing farce,
partly in prose, partly in verse. The scene is laid on the shores of the
Indian Ocean, and the plot turns upon the rescue of a Greek maiden from
the hands of barbarians, who speak a non-Greek language with elements
apparently derived from Prakrit.*

* This is a peculiarly interesting suggestion in view of the
fact that there is in the British Museum an unpublished
fragment which for some time was considered by Doctor Budge
to be a species of Egyptian stenography, but which has also
been suggested to be in Pehlevi characters.

The new Homeric fragments include one of Iliad VI., with critical
signs and interesting textual notes. Sappho, Euripides (Andromache,
"Archelaus," and "Medea"), Antiphanes, Thucydides, Plato ("Gorgias" and
"Republic"), AEschines, Demosthenes, and Xenophon are also represented.
Among the theological texts are fragments of the lost Greek original of
the "Apocalypse of Baruch" and of the missing Greek conclusion of the
"Shepherd" of Hennas.

In the winter of 1898-99, Doctors Grenfell and Hunt conducted
excavations for the Graeco-Roman Branch in the Fayum. In 1899-1900, they
excavated at Tebtunis, in the Fayum, on behalf of the University of
California; and by an arrangement between that university and the Egypt
Exploration Fund an important section of the Tebtunis papyri, consisting
of second-century B.C. papyri from crocodile mummies, was issued jointly
by the two bodies, forming the annual volumes of the Graeco-Roman Branch
for 1900-01 and 1901-02. Since 1900 Doctors Grenfell and Hunt have
excavated each winter on behalf of the Graeco-Roman Branch,--in 1900-01
in the Fayum, and in 1901-02 both there and at Hibeh, with the result
that a very large collection of Ptolemai