HOMERIC LITERATURE.

J. Rendel Harris, of Cambridge, is announced as the editor of "The Homeric Centones," a volume to be published in the "Text and Studies" series; being contributions to biblical and patristic literature. Cambridge, Eng.

Biblia, for April, 1900, Meriden, Conn., contains an article on the adventures, excavations, and discoveries of Dr. Heinrich Schliemann, at Ithaca, Troy, and Mycenæ, accompanied with a portrait as frontispiece to this number.

The Conservative Review, Washington, D. C., for June and September, 1900, contains an article on the "Elements of Unity in the Homeric Poems," by Edward Farquhar, Ph.D. The two parks mate 46 pages.

Biblia, for January, 1901, contains an article on "Discoveries in Crete," and quotes some five pages on the "Home of the Homeric Kings."

"The Rivalry of Ajax and Ulysses" is the title of a poem of six pages, by Anson G. Osgood, of Manchester, N. H. The arguments of the chieftains are drawn from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

The Bookman, for December, 1899, New York, contains a nine stanza poem on 66 Homer," by Walter Malone. A fine production, which will be reprinted.

The Library of Old Authors has published a new edition of the Rev. R. Hooper's edition of George Chapman's translalion of Homer, in five volumes, square 12mo.

"Homer 2nd's Bulliad" is a Satire on the South African

Campaign. It is a poem by John Gwynne. Milwaukee, 1901.

"The Homeric Palace" is a quite recent work by Norman Morrison Isham, Architect, Providence, R. I.

"The Mycenaean Age" is a work by Chrestos Tsountas and J. Irving Manatt. Boston and New York.

A new translation of the Odyssey, by Samuel Butler, from the press of Longman, Green & Co., London, will have more than usual interest and comment for the reason that Mr. Butler first gained his reputation among Greek scholars, through the publication of a recent volume entitled "The Authoress of the Odyssey," in which he attempts to show that Homer as such was not the author of the Odyessy, but that its author was the character, Nausicaa of Sicily, daughter of Alcinous. It is intensely entertaining to a Homeric student.

The Papisseconewa Grant.

In 1662 Passaconnaway petitioned to the General Court of Massachusetts for a grant of land along the Merrimack for himself and people, the following being a copy of the document that is still sacredly preserved in the archives of that state: "To the hond Endicott John Esq' Gov: together with the rest of the honrd Generall court now assembled in Boston. the petition of Papisseconnewa in the behalfe of him selfe, as also of many other indians who were for a longe time themselves and their progenitors seated upon a tract of land named Noticot,' and is now in possession of Mr. William Brenton of Rode Iland marchante; and is now confirmed to the said Mr. Brenton to him his heirs & assigns according to the lawes of this Jurisdicdiction, by reason of which tract of land being taken as aforesaide, & throwing your poor petitioner with many others in an unsettled condition, & must be forced in a short time to remove to some other place. the humble request of yr poor petitioner is that this honrd Court would please to grant unto us a parcel of land for our comfortable situation, to be stated for our en joyment, as also for the comfort of those after us: as also that this honrd court would please to take into your serious and pious consideration the condition and also the request of your poor suppliantes, & to appoint two or three persons as a committee to assist the same sum one or two indians to view & determine on some place and to lay out ye same. Not further to trouble this honrd assembly, humbly craving an expected answer this present session, I shall still remain ye Humble Servant whom ye shall commande.

Boston: 9 3 mo. 1662.

Papisseconewa.

In ans" to this petition the magistrates' judge meete to Graunt unto Papisseconneway and his men or Associates about Natticott above Mr. Brentons land where it is free a mile & a halfe on either side in length provided he nor they doe not alienate any part of this Graunt without leave and license from this court first obtained if their brethren the deputys consent thereto. 9 may, 1662.

consented to by the deputyes.

Edward Rawson.

William Torrey, clerc.

1 The intervale portions of Litchfield (Indian Naticook - first grant, 1656, Brenton's Farm.) Merrimack, Hudson, Nashua were inhabited and cultivated by a branch or family of the Penacooks called sometimes Naticooks. (Fox's History of Dunstable, p. 220.

According to the order of the Honrd Generall Court, ther is laid-out unto the indians, papisse coneway & his Associates, the inhabitants of Naticott, three miles square, or so much (rather) as contains it in the figure of a romboide upon merrimack rivr beginning at the head of Mr. Brintons land at Naticott, on the east side of the rivr, & then it joyneth to his line, which lines runnes half against North-ward of the East, it lyeth one mile & a halfe wide on each side of ye Rivr and some what better, and runnes three miles up the Rivr; the Northern line on the east side of the Rivr is bounded by a brook (called by ye indians) Suskayquetuck, right against the falls in the rivr Pokehuous. the end lines on both side of the rivr are paralelle; the side line on the east side of the rivr runnes halfe a pointe eastward of the No: No: east and the side line on the west side of the rivr runnes Northeast and by North, all of which is sufficiently bounded and marked with. also ther is two smale islands in the Rivr part of which, the lower end line cuts crosse, one of which Papisseconeway have lived upon & planted a long time & a smale patch of intervaile land, on the west side of the Rivr anent and a little below ye Islands, by estemation about forty acres, which joyneth to their land and to Sauhegon Rivr which the indians have planted (much of it) a long time, & considering there is very little good land in that which is Now laid ont unto them, the indians do earnestly request this Honrd Court to grant these two smale islands & ye patch of intervaile, as it is bounded by ye Hills. This land was laid out 27. 3 mo. 1663. By John Parks & Jonathan Danforth Surveyors.

This was done by us and at our chrge wholly, at the request of the indians. It was important, and as we are informed by the order of this Honrd Generall court (if our services be acceptable) that that they should take order we made be compensted for the same. So shall we remain your humble servants as Before."

The bill for the expenses of surveying amounted to almost eleven pounds, which was allowed. That closed the record of the first grant of land made in what now constitutes the territory of Manchester, and it was made to one whose people had possessed it as their fishing, hunting and planting grounds for unnumbered years. Naticott was one of the forms of the Indian name of the land now embraced in Litchfield, the southern boundary of this grant being near the northern line of that town even to the present day, and extended three miles up the river. There are no records to show that this grant was of any benefit to Papisseconeway and his associates.

PHRENOLOGICAL ANNUAL FOR 1901.

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A Key to the Chronology of the Hindus. bers of Oriental Nations. Two vols; 8vo.

Protracted Num-
Cambridge, 1820.

Book of Esdras. Translated by Richard Laurence. or London, 1820.

Oxford

Book of the Conversation of God with Moses on Mount Sinai. Translated by W. Cureton from Arabic MS. of fifteen century. Philobiblon Society. London.

Book of Job. Arranged by Richard Laurence. Dublin, 1828 Cabbala Algebraica. By C. L. Christmann. London, 1827. Causes of the Circulation of the Blood. True Nature of the Planetary System. New Discovery. London, 1848.

David and Goliath. By William Lauter. London, 1861. Dissertation on the Logos of St John. By Richard Laurence. Oxford, 1808.

Domed Comet and the World's End. Scientific Solution of the Problem. London. Wyman & Sons. Great Queen Street, Man and his Many Changes. By George Corfe. London. Matter and Ether. The Secret Laws of Physical Change. By T. R. Birks. London, 1862.

Mystery of Being. Are Ultimate Atoms Inabitable Worlds? By Nicholas Odgers. London, 1862.

Names of the Stars and Constellations. Compiled from Latin. Greek and Arabic.

By W. H. Higgins. London, 1882.

New Principia. or the Astronomy of the Future. Essay on a Rational System of the Universe. By Newton Crosland. London. Trübner & Co.

Song of Moses with Historical and Critical Commentary. By Christian D. Ginsburg. London, 1863.

Sun Spot Cycle in Its Relation to the Earth An Inquiry into Phenomena. London. Wyman & Sons.

Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs. Attempt to estimate the historic and dogmatic worth. Appendix. Cambridge, 1869.