From: The Dial, Vol. IV, No. II (Oct. 1843)
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Published: James Munroe and Company 1843 Boston
We notice in London a new edition of Chapman’s Translation of the Iliads of Homer, illustrated with wood-engravings after Flaxman. Charles Lamb says, “Chapman would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not shown himself to be one; for his Homer is not so properly a translation, as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses rewritten.” We trust this new edition will find its way here, the older one being very rare.
Orion, an Epic Poem, in Three Books, 137 pp. By R.H. Horne, Author of “Cosmo de Medici,” &c. Price one farthing.—From certain extracts from this Epic, it is better than some of the late Epics, but incomparable in its price.
It is grateful to notice a second edition of Tennyson’s Poems.
A new work of Manzoni is announced,—Storia della Colonna Infame di Alessandro Manzoni.
The translations of Mary Howitt from the Swedish having succeeded, a work from the Danish,—King Eric and the Outlaws: or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century; translated by Jane Chapman,—has been published.
In France the monstrous undertaking of the reprint of the “Moniteur” from 1789 to 1799, is nearly complete, since of thirty-two volumes, of which it will consist, already twenty-nine have appeared. Twenty-five volumes contain the history of three great revolutionary Assemblies, the Notables, the States General, and the Convention. Four volumes are devoted to the Directory.
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