Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XVII, page 144

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the English-speaking race has a strong instinct for translation, extending through both its branches. Miss Mitford says of one of her heroes in a country town, ‘He translated Horace, as all gentlemen do;’ and Mrs. Austin speaks of Goethe's ‘Faust’ as ‘that untranslatable poem which every Englishman translates.’ Americans are not behind their British cousins in these labors; and Professor Boyesen —who, as a Norseman by birth and an American by adoption, is free of all languages—has written an agreeable paper in Book News¹ on the general subject of translations. In this he says that America has produced three of the greatest translators of modern times; a statement which every patriotic American would perhaps indorse, were he himself only allowed to make the selection. To two out of three of Mr. Boyesen's favorites I should certainly take

1 1 August, 1888.

Boston, Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1892.

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