The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-05
Recent Publications.

nv" "Si'ate the nations OF Europe.
Recent Publications.
SchooDoys who have never been ahla 20
see the joke" OF reading Virgil in the original
would no doubt see that of reading a lstle
brochure just published at the office of ths
Winsted Herald, Conn. 1t is "a free ard easy
translation of the first and fourth books of the
Aneid, designed especially, the author says,
for students in Virgil, into whose hands it may
be put without the least danger of its being
used as pony" The translation will not
compare with Mr.. Longfellow's Dante, Bry-
ants Homer or Bayard Taylors forthcoming
Goethe's Faust in point of being close, but it
is a deal more funny. The humor is not quite
so delicate as might be, it must be confessed,
the whole effect ,being produced by illustra-
tions exhibiting Eneas, Juno, Venus, Dido,
and the other dramatis personae in semi-mod-
dern attire, and putting modern slang into
their antique mouths instead OF the classic sem
tences of the original. For example: when
Jupiter reassures Venus in regard to the des-
tiny of her son, beginning, OH su5ndens homi-
natna, &C., our translator's version runs thus:
First helping himself to choice lot of os:ua plum
And smacking his lips till the clouds palptated like
thunder,
Thus Jupiter answered; ."Pray don't get your back
I'm sorry that you and my wife mus. forever be
quar'lng.
Your Eneas that long promised country shall FINAL.
There shall he clean out the natives, and be the
Head Center"
Aneas, pressed for an explanation, takes
leave of Dido with these touching and respect.
full words:
Says Enias; 81 am your most obe iiept,-
Bat to stay here don't seem to be expedient:
Where'er wander on this earthly ball,
always to'H say, you're gay old gal.
Inc Illustrations are by Thomas Worth. If
you want the pamphlet send 25 cents to the
Winsted Herald, Winsted, Conn.
The Choice Of Paris, a Romance of the Troad
+, by 5. &. w. Benjamin, author of the Turk and
me CREEKS charming classic study 1The story
OF Paris, eliminated from the mass of legen-
Diary lore respecting the other personages
prominent in the seige of Troy which obscures
it, and leaves it imperfect in Homer, in Euri-
pidss and in Virgil, is followed from beginning
toend. It a prose tale, and an additional
relish Is given to it by the singularity of read
ing OF Paris, Gnone Menelaus, Helen, Iphi-
genia, Hector, Achilles, Priam, Ulysses, Cas-
sandra, and the great people of Olympus, with
out rhyme or poetic measure. From the earli-
est fathers of poetry down to Tennyson, the
poets have had monopoly of the story of
Troy. The style of this little volume is as
pure as a mountain brook, but so animated
as to keep the readers attention firmly en-
chained to the solemn close, where Helen, old,
unhappy, deserted, dies by violence in a foreign
land. There is little departure in the details
of the story from the ancient authors, but the
incidents are rearranged, and made to bear
more directly on the life of the hero. For boy
with taste for reading, there could be no bet
ter present than the 'sChoce of Paris" while
the learned classic scholar would read it with
equal interest. Published by Hurd and
Houghton, and for sale by Bailey and Noyes.
Disiael will never have SO many hundred
readers in the United States as Dickens has
thousands no, not if he were ten times pre-
mier, and wrote fifty Lothairs. The interest
excited by the publication of Lothair has
brought back to the memory of this generation
Vivian Grey" Henrietta Temple Miriam
Alroy," and all the rest of the authors earlier
novels, among them 'The Young Duke" which
lies before u.s. Nothing Common or unclean"
about this-nobody of less consequences than
baronet, actual or prospective, mentioned in it
at all. He who in his later years, as the fore
most man in the British government, created
peers, loved them in his youth and ever since
o. SO dearly! Tommy Moore was tuft-huu-
ter, but Disraeli loves Lord better than even
the poet. By the way-there are two or three
inconsiderable plebeians N entioned incidental
| ly in "The Young Duke" after all, but they
are introduced for moment, to be laughed at
L ovr1 IL Al.
ct Immediately after to sweeten his imagina-
ton. Yet the book is not without interest, ex-
cept in the dialogues, which, being made
| up OF the inanities of high society, are
simply nauseating. Published by d. Apple
ton & Co., New York, and for sale by Bailey
| & Noyes.
The Life of Arthur Tappaa, the Philanthro-
pist who was merchant in this city from 1906
to 1908, has already been noticed in thes. col
umns. 1t is published by Hurd & Houghtou
and for sale by Bailey s. Noyes
Loring, Short & Hermon have received from
Oakley, Mason & Co., New York, the !Story of
a Workingman's Life, by Francis Mason, D. d.
Our Boston letter few days since spoke at
some length of this work and further review is
unnecessary.
The Harpers have published cheap edition
OF the Mystery of Edrin brood
The presence of Thomas Hughes in this
country will render the popular edition Of his
Tom Broom at Oxford, published by the same
house, quite acceptable, and enlarge its circle
of delighted readers
Dangerous Guest, by the author OF Gilbert
Rugg, also comes from .he same house; also
the Fifth Reader of Marcus Wilson's series
really excellent school book, in our judg-
ment A complete Inde1 to Harpers' Magazine
from its commencement to May, 1S7O-forty
volumes-has been published in an elegant
octave volume. Not only areehe titles Of the
articles given, but the name of each author is
appended, so far as it conld be ascertai ned
The articles and topics have been grouped un-
der appropriate heads; illustrated articles have
a full list OF them appended to the title; and
the Historical Record has been indexed in
chronological order, placing under the hand a
key to the complete history of remarkable
for twenty years. Each alternate page is left
blank, so that any person can continue the In
dex for a large number of volumes to come.
Loring, Short & Harmon have all of Harpers'
p Ons.
D..wx NTo I...Is Al. u.