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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 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.’
Boston, Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1892.
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