, 1879-03-29
Lcfevro's Philosophy...Spiritu-
al Songs---Lifo Of DR..
Eddy.
Lo COnte's Elements OF Geology
Brief N0ticcs...Literary
Notes.
The Inertia Of the Retina- Nation
r. ality in France and Germany
---Soienoe Notes.
LITERATURE


, IN = ~ 20 N ..a.s,.,io,, a, III.
Butcher ant! l.ahe's prose ttanslatlo'. " u'e
= Odyssey, recently published by Macmillan &
Co., Is an attempt to give "the simple truth
sso' t.,aa 80 ..on.,.r nnt iii 4hc trnth. h,t ,hc
aVc tt's" " a., ao1 ~ ."e rs,,.,,
historical truth, OF tue odysaeg INTO EnRi'a"'
onlv half trutn about Homer cou be- told,''
nv. ,.,,,. .,.r ,h,t ,toro oar ho m f,nal En-.
aes osAo,S ",no % ~, 49,. ttT o,nt, ,,oro
Glssh Translation Of the eples' IN eael ''1ess
must be, in addition to what is Greek mud
eternal, tic element Of what Is modern, pcrsou.
~ "u1 dnot,ng a nrosc Translation cannot
a,n, I'm n,o~"n,ort a,1 tha IRA y, n s,,rccssful
t.su I ~ wors". n on,v "atbnrs M # wcrc
the crumbs which fall from the richer table, only
Yo,Is ,ho story wItho,tk the song, Yet to prose
,"., .sns :, as,at,to1 ,,ornnns thnt ctosa ad.
herenee to the aretalsms OF the eple
Wheh IN Yetae become mere Oddities" Inc
traps,atdrs nave chosen somoHhAt anl[1uatcl
English nrose. tho words bsInp, ns a rule. such
US are found In the King james, version Of the
Bible. They havo cndcavorcd also to preserve
the saga elements Of the poem, md sysn t.; to
utu l,o poe1or'sv on,os nro snaseM afo,d viii
ao.ne'e sP'es "su 7hEne, ~ ~, thn
Nortbern NJ as Ts noea Mr. III LAM. It Is uudcrstood;
lhs ~ lug "osk pocs ~ ,rnnu Ian.
teal KnoW!Gaee ot eaIlS DOLLY ~ ,hy 'a. ~
Tnaass; ws ~ s. IT, a.s mr1 torm,eh
his capital ~ i!e lolnt enterprise 'noloue"
kn0Wledgs u tie Vreek !angISEei, t!ia i., .-.
Inc rcsuit o. tege eoho'nca 'nools ~ ~ enlnf Ga
iatoM Mn'cn y moa i.a W ar " ILL., ahats ~
Tg% eIain io ,rhir ntn 70 90 ei,araetesistie nf It.
mud Yet 10 difficult to reproduce III poetry, ayo
beea brought out IN this version with sper!al de,
trctnces, and the rcpctllOns 11aye beeE adhered
TO- Odysseus "rIcn in counsel" md Telcma-
cl.us F." tllc higt.spokcn always appear Us such
III illesc pages whenever they ure 80 deaer1bed
III tiIe corresponding line Of the original SO
tlc full meaning Ut oarh word ia pressed out OF
It even when. as frequently happens, n1oro than
onu word III Enalsh Is necessary for the purpose.
Thus Tclcmnchus is nlade 70 apehk o. hss kino
with thrilling fect ana sllambl'ng slal Eait,n
whole Of the descriptive phrase.
In this passagc. BY tho WY, an odd and
awkward coliocatton of phrases makes the trat,s'
earelessness which crops out o. several places,
ami is this onIy serious blcmtsh III the trnnsla-
ton, We quote:
Then w'sc To'cmachns answered him snd said:
leader of ths host, / baye CONC II perehanec thoa
mayrat tell mo some tldings Of my fathct. Ny
house ia being aesonred and my iat lands are
klru with ttailIu0 feet ana shamblIr4 tnlt. even
ars.S s4s S0''f' u A' ''''A''' '''''S ' '''sA'
Not only aess this ssrange"Snt , m, make the king =
meseaH fo no. .ims,, Mns ,rr.,
tso sG ~ IT, alot rGc,c fhe siffn.s. ~
Gccufs ou ta9 utat pakGt MHcso l1o sItaooss u
the translation Is rcmarRabiu; /:
Now all tho rcst, as many es fed from sheer de-.
lid hIs returning, tic ady.nymph Calypso held,
thai fair Roidcss, in hor hollow cavcy longing to
htnr t. is @ e .arscos LIT trans3a
ei ,nh ~ Fniin,r,,,ts -, ,o."l,, t,,a nr1a.
non, thouEn !lot loluW!HH ~ c!u5e!9 l!lc GCu6E