GENIUS IN TRANSLATION.
From Florio’s version of Montaigne to Carlyle’s Wilhelm Mcister, England, lias had many examples, of the transplantation of foreign masterpieces, so successful as to become integral pasts of English literature. Everyone is familiar with Keate’s splendid ronnet on Chapman’s version of Homer, and the greatest of our poet-, from Pope onwards, have vied with each other in rendering the clauses of other tongues into our own. The art is not dead, as the Butcher and Lang translations of Homer and Jowett’s translations of Thucydides suffice amply to demonstrate. One of the most exquisite examples of all is Andrew Lang’s English Version of the old story of “ Aucassin and Nicolette.” Whoso has not read this beautiful tale will have missed one of the most delightful things in literature. Examples from Mr Lang's translation, as of all other translations here noted, are to bo found in the “ Library of Famous Literature.” This, indeed, may bo said to be one of the Library’s most notable features.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 20 August 1901, Page 4
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166GENIUS IN TRANSLATION. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 20 August 1901, Page 4
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