Show A HOMER of TODAY th the newiel to in receipt of a muni mun catlon leation from william ciego F enjoys benjoya sonie local repute ail 1 pae in in which he aih V t a W ork in which Ai gaeA tar to OZ it te ZU 83 ot a in nyela a ab e to martn fuJi III ilK beg abt kac I 1 the bength h at least the iliad of homer the dintleman int J leman doth protest too little we think he would scarcely spend an average lifetime on a production which exceeded the one spoken or only in the matter of quantity As much could be wd for many of the reports which issue arrom em the government departments only oat at they do not take so much time wy fy little in fact the the titles it will be observed are dot dissimilar the iliad relates chiefly tb a man a fighting man ot or troy who rejoiced in the name of achilles and the wrathful mood in which he found adm himself elf at a particular time to is the foundation of the poem homer was blind and used to meander about the green fields of his native greece pouring out wo itis soul in rhythmic chants to the birds and other natural objects in the lt was all one to him bigit was many many hundreds of years ago when there were no newspapers or printing offices and the young grecian tan wrote on an a flat rock or a piece aw f sheepskin or anything he could get llad would contain characters now J r degg clegg is in not handicapped in that fay or at all it is a pleasure to know hat he can see quite well that he be has aper r pens and pencils galore and here is a printing house in any place mere r e e the muse takes a notion to alight J be iliad contained something like i etwo it pit lines a figure which homers prin evilie successor raises to st P being of equal length and the lat at OF be being 1 ng attempted in the same style wd d measure as aa the other epic As sady macbeth says the attempt with aut mt the deed confounds us and con that our correspondent has at equaled his grecian prototype in I 1 veness ot of thought in symmetry of depression mp in forcefulness of diction agran in grandeur deur of outline in perspicuity of te tail and in tunefulness of song we UI let the matter rest until this thou thought 1 or we are convinced to the ont |