rhythmically, and prevented violent motion, or unseemly attitude.
We, the civilised, need physiologists to remind us of these simple
facts, and even then do not act on them. Those old half-barbarous
Greeks had found them out for themselves, and, moreover, acted on
them.

But fair Nausicaa must have been--some will say--surely a mere
child of nature, and an uncultivated person?

So far from it, that her whole demeanour and speech show culture
of the very highest sort, full of "sweetness and light."--
Intelligent and fearless, quick to perceive the bearings of her
strange and sudden adventure, quick to perceive the character of
Ulysses, quick to answer his lofty and refined pleading by words
as lofty and refined, and pious withal;--for it is she who speaks
to her handmaids the once so famous words:


Strangers and poor men all are sent from Zeus;
And alms, though small, are sweet.


Clear of intellect, prompt of action, modest of demeanour,
shrinking from the slightest breath of scandal; while she is not
ashamed, when Ulysses, bathed and dressed, looks himself again, to
whisper to her maidens her wish that the Gods might send her such
a spouse.--This is Nausicaa as Homer draws her; and as many a
scholar and poet since Homer has accepted her for the ideal of
noble maidenhood. I ask my readers to study for themselves her
interview with Ulysses, in Mr. Worsley's translation, or rather in