Writing in his journal under date of October 2, 1847, Longfellow says: "Why does not Ticknor publish Evangeline? I am going to town to ask him that very question. And his answer was that he should do so without further delay." An entry, dated October 30, says, "Evangeline published." On November 8, he says: "Evangeline goes on bravely. I have received greater and warmer commendations than on any previous volume. The public takes more kindly to hexameters than I could have imagined." On November 13, a third thousand is recorded, and on April 8 of the following year we learn: "Next week Ticknor prints the sixth thousand of Evangeline, making one thousand a month since its publication." In 1857 the following entry sums up the successful career of the poem: "Allibone wants to get from the publishers the number of copies of my book sold up to date, the editions in this country only," and _Evangeline_ is set down as 35,850 copies. The poem was translated into German, Swedish, Danish, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, and French, and was made a school-book in Italy. Sextodecimo. COLLATION: _163 pp._ ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861) 85. Sonnets. | By | E. B. B. | Reading: | [Not For Publication.] 1847. This is the first appearance in print of the _Sonnets from the Portuguese_ which were not published until 1850, when they were issued under the title _Sonnets from the Portuguese_, as a part of the _Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning_. Mr. Browning told the story of the Portuguese Sonnets to Mr. Edmund Gosse, who printed the account in _Critical Kit-Kats_, 1896: "The Sonnets were intended for her husband's eyes alone; in the first instance, not even for his.... Fortunately for all those who love true poetry, Mr. Browning judged rightly of the obligation laid upon him by the possession of these poems. 'I dared not,' he said, 'reserve to myself the finest sonnets written in any language since Shakespeare's.' Accordingly he persuaded his wife to commit the printing of them to her friend Miss Mitford; and in the course of the year they appeared in a slender volume entitled 'Sonnets, by E. B. B.,' with the imprint 'Reading, 1847,' and marked 'Not for publication.'" Duodecimo. COLLATION: _47 pp._ JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891) 86. Melib[oe]us-Hipponax. | The | Biglow Papers, | Edited, | With An Introduction, Notes, Glossary, | And Copious Index, | By | Homer Wilbur, A.M., | [Three lines] [Quotations] Cambridge: | Published By George Nichols. | 1848.