18 JANUARY 1862, page 22

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......

Intellectual Instincts.*

THE valuable portion of this little book is the first,—on what we may call the Intellectual Instincts. The second, on Reason, could not be discussed to much purpose, even......