Copy extracts from North American newspapers relating to John Frederick William Herschel and astronomy Brief notice from the 'The Daily Globe', Toronto, West Canada, of Herschel's translation of 'The Iliad'. With a longer article from the 'New York Times', on popular interest in an [unnamed in the text] astronomical event: the Leonid meteor shower of 13-14 November 1866. 14-22 November 1866