. The Varsity war supplement 1916. s of collection, too, the Germans have thelead. The work of Diels, von Arnim, Usener, Sudhaus, KarlMuller, the Teubners, and Lietzmann is of great in periodical literature and the small dissertations theGerman lead is enormous. I should judge that the bulk ofspecialist journals and magazines must be fully ten times asgreat in Germany as in England, and that of tracts and dis-sertations even more disproportionate. This being the case—all this credit being given to Germanscholarship—it nevertheless remains that there is somethingto be said for En
. The Varsity war supplement 1916. s of collection, too, the Germans have thelead. The work of Diels, von Arnim, Usener, Sudhaus, KarlMuller, the Teubners, and Lietzmann is of great in periodical literature and the small dissertations theGerman lead is enormous. I should judge that the bulk ofspecialist journals and magazines must be fully ten times asgreat in Germany as in England, and that of tracts and dis-sertations even more disproportionate. This being the case—all this credit being given to Germanscholarship—it nevertheless remains that there is somethingto be said for English scholarship, and for a certain kind ofsuperiority in English scholarship over German point which I wish to make is this, that if instead oflooking merely at the effectiveness of a book we try to estimatesome quality in the mind of the writer, the comparison willcome out in a very different way. The quality in questionmay be some form of what in England is called scholarship,it may be something much 117 THE VARSITY MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT For instance, I have said that the best Greek grammaris that of Kuhner-Blass-Gerth. But if one wanted guidanceon some very delicate point of Greek usage, and was lookingfor some one with a subtle flair and feeling for the language,there are at least two Americans and certain English peoplewhom I would consult in preference to any German scholar. Where a thing can be ascertained and proved, and theinstances counted, I go to the Germans; where it is a questionof feeling, I do not go to the Germans. This differencegoes along with agreat difference inmethod. In Eng-land we write Greekand Latin, bothprose and verse. InGermany the bestscholars have agreat command offluent Latin, andoften can speak itwithout otherwise theyare not good atcomposition. Ihave had under-graduate pupilswho wrote betterGreek prose and in-comparably betterGreek verse thanany German knownto me, with perhapstwo exceptions. Germans do
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