WE must now return from Thebes to Cambridge, and resume the narrative at the point where it was left at the close of the Introduction.

As soon as a decision was reached, the professors of the Greek department of the University undertook the work of arrangement and direction. To describe the services of each of these gentlemen Avould be to introduce matter of too personal a nature; it must suffice to place their names upon record as those of the persons to whom the success of the play was mainly due. Professor W. W. Goodwin, Professor J. W. White, and Professor Louis Dyer were untiring in their labors, and Professor Charles Eliot Norton lent encouragement and suggestion.

From the first the necessity of original music for the play had been evident, and the work of composing it was undertaken by Professor J. K. Paine. The task of writing music to the choruses of Sophocles — music which should preserve the original metres and embody the Greek sentiment expressed in them — was a very hard one. Little is known about the music of the Greeks; it is not probable, however, that a race which exhibited the ultimate application of the principles of several of the arts would remain contented with a barbaric music.