18 JANUARY 1862, page 21

Mr. Dirt's Hexameter Iliad *

THERE happens, more or less, to Homer's translators—as we think Goethe or Schiller long ago remarked in the "Xenien"—what Homer himself represents as certain to happen to all......

Reminiscences Of T. C. Grattan.*

CONNECTED by birth with some of the best families of Ireland, a man about town, a conversationist, an author of some note and success, a traveller and a diplomatist, Mr. Grattan......