...t have taken place on Staten Island. Mr. Bryant undoubtedly had, in his youth, something of Longfellow's gift for translation; his early Spanish ballads had in them much promise; they were as good as Lockhart 's, perhaps better. But his Iliad and Odyssey were an old man's work, done with mechanical regularity, so many lines a day; and while they are grave and dignified, as his critic says, they are Homer...