Books and Authors.
Reading edition
Among the articles of virtue recently purchased by our esteemed fellow-townsman, Mr. Townley J. Morris, is one of the first English translations of Virgil’s Æneid. This translation was made, we understand, under the personal supervision of the eminent poet himself.
There is a current rumor that Judge Thomas M. Cooley, chairman of the interstate Comus commission, has written a poem entitled “Trunk Lines to a Railroad System.”
Capt. Ben Wingate has named his new barge the “Felicia Hemans,” and the same departed for Saginaw last evening for a cargo of shingles.
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