30 MARCH 1867, Page 22

The Fasti of Ovid. The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil.

By John Benson Rose. (Derrell and Son.)—Mr. Rose has translated The Fasti and The Eclogues and Georgics into English verse, with a laudable wish to be faithfuL But he never rises above mediocrity, and he sometimes skips over particles which affect the sense of Virgil. Thus, in the passage about the sun at the end of the first book, he passes over the iterum and his which give such force to the introduction of Philippi and the plains of Haunts. In another place he makes "power" rhyme with "Jupiter," and gives us for an English line,—" Though Calliope with Aonian tire."