This is a definitive work on a most important subject and career a well regarded and honored work by the premier translation expert of the times, still widely appreciated. At the time of original publication in 1901, Herbert Cushing Tolman, Ph.D., was Professor of Greek in Vanderbilt University. Contents: Reading the Original The Work of the Translator Translation Not Explanation The Choice of Words Primitive Signification Synonyms The Order of Words Figures of Speech The Greek Particles