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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 7 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 6 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XVII (search)
dealing with the oft-translated First Part that the higher poetic qualities come in; and in this Taylor has been easily surpassed, I should say, by the late Charles T. Brooks. And while Brooks, it is true, stopped short of the longer and more laborious Second Part, yet he made up for that by his remarkable series of versions of Brooks, it is true, stopped short of the longer and more laborious Second Part, yet he made up for that by his remarkable series of versions of the yet more difficult work of Jean Paul Richter. These he handled, especially the Hesperus and Titan, with a felicity and success unequalled among Richter's translators; and it is an illustration of the ignorance in England of the successes achieved by Americans in this direction, that Mr. Brooks's works of this series are thereMr. Brooks's works of this series are there so little recognized. Another remarkable American translator from the German is Charles G. Leland, whose version of Heine's Reisebilder under the name of Pictures of Travel is so extraordinarily graphic and at the same time so literal that it ought of itself to achieve a permanent fame for the author of Hans Breitmann.