...en's, Remorse, Reboul's, The Angel and Child, and Malherbe's, Consolation. It is to be remembered that Longfellow's standard of translation was very high and that he always maintained, according to Mrs. Fields , that Americans, French, and Germans had a greater natural gift for it than the English on account of the greater insularity of the latter's natures. It is also to be noted that he sometimes failed ...