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Another re-issue in cheap form, to be published shortly by Mr. Murray, is “The Aeneid of Virgil,” translated with an introductory essay by Frank Richards. The translation is in blank verse, limited to the number of the. Latin lines, and it aims at being a readable as well as a faithfill representation of the original. The new price is six shillings. After having been out-of-print for five years “The Lone Shieling” is shortly to be re-issued by Mr. Murray in a second edition at three-and-six pence. This boat song of Highlander exiles was transcribed from “Blackwood” of September, 1829, by Walter G. F. Dewar. A musical setting was composed by Alan Burr, and renderings in Greek verse were supplied by Harold A- Perry and in Latin by Lord Francis Hervey—the latter adding, a critical enquiry into the authorship of the poem. ’ To this second edition. Mr. Harold Perry has written a new preface.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 13, 16 January 1932, Page 14 (Supplement)
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156DOWN GRUB STREET Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 13, 16 January 1932, Page 14 (Supplement)
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