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QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. XXXIV.

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JUNE & SEPTEMBER, 1826.

RED

SETON HALL JUNVERTY 27.5.

Marshall Library So. Orange,

LONDON:

STO

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1826.

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
MCLAUGHLIN LIBRARY

SO. ORANGE, N.J.

VIII.-1. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
vol. i.

2. Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of
Manchester. 2d Series. vol. iv.

3. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Corn-
wall, instituted February 11. vol. i. and ii.

4. Report of the Liverpool Royal Institution.

5. Bristol Institution. Proceedings of the Second Annual
Meeting, held February 10, 1825, &c.

6. Annual Report of the Council of the Yorkshire Philo-
sophical Society for 1824.

IX.-1. A Letter to the Earl of Liverpool, proposing to finish
the East Wing of Somerset House for National Galle-
-ries. By J. W. Croker, Esq.

2. Observations on the Buildings, Improvements, and
Extension of the Metropolis, of late Years; with some
Suggestions, &c,

3. Sketch of the North Bank of the Thames, showing
the proposed Quay, and some other Improvements,
suggested by Lieutenant-Colonel Trench.

4. Considerations upon the Expediency of Building a
Metropolitan Palace. By a Member of Parliament.
5. A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir Charles Long,
on the Improvements proposed and now carrying on in
the Western part of London.

6. Short Remarks and Suggestions upon the Improve-
ments now carrying on or under consideration.

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- 179 X.-1. Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble, Esquire, including a History of the Stage from the time of Garrick to the present period. By James Boaden, Esquire. 2. Reminiscences of Michael Kelly, of the King's Theatre, and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, including a period of nearly half a Century; with Original Anecdotes of many distinguished Personages, Political, Literary, and Musical.

XI. The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius
Cæsar to the Revolution of 1688. By David Hume,
Esq.

List of New Publications

196

248

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NEW

CONTENTS

OF

No. LXVIII.

ART. 1.-1. Britton's Cathedral Antiquities.

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2. A Brief Memoir of the Life and Writings of John
Britton, F.S.A. F.R.S.L. &c.

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II.-Lives of the Novelists. By Sir Walter Scott.

III.—]. Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a
North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific;
performed in the Years 1824, 25, in His Majesty's
Ships Hecla and Fury, under the orders of Captain
William Edward Parry, R.N. F.R.S., and Commander
of the Expedition.

2. A Voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the
years 1822-24. Containing an Examination of the
Antarctic Sea, to the Seventy-fourth degree of Latitude:
and a Visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular Ac-
count of the Inhabitants. To which is added, much
useful Information on the coasting Navigation of Cape
Horn, and the Adjacent Lands, with Charts of Har-
bours, &c. By James Weddell, Esq., Master in the
Royal Navy.

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349

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IV.-Philippe-Auguste; Poëme Héroïque, en Douze Chants.
Par F. A. Parseval, Membre de l'Académie Française. 399
V.-1. The Subaltern.

2. The Adventures of a Young Rifleman in the French
and English Armies during the War in Spain and Por-
tugal, from 1806 to 1816. Written by himself.
3. Adventures of a French Serjeant, during his Cam-
paigns in Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia, &c. from
1805 to 1823. Written by himself.

VI.-Mémoires de Madame la Comtesse de Genlis.

406

421

VII.-Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke; with Specimens of his Poetry and Letters ; and an Estimate of his Genius and Talents, compared with those of his great Contemporaries. By James Prior, Esq. Second Edition; enlarged to two volumes by a variety of Original Letters, Anecdotes, Papers, and other Additional Matter.

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VIII.-Sandoval; or the Freemason. By the Author of Don

Esteban.

IX.-Transactions of the Geological Society of London. Vol. i. 2d Series.

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X.-Observations on the actual State of the English Laws of
Real Property; with the Outline of a Code. By James
Humphreys, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister. -

507

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XI.-1. Correspondence with the British Commissioners, re-
lating to the Slave-Trade. 1825, 1826. Class A.
2. Correspondence with Foreign Powers, relating to the
Slave-Trade. 1825, 1826. Class B. Presented to
both Houses of Parliament.

3. British and Foreign State Papers. 1824, 1825.

4. Nineteenth and Twentieth Reports of the Directors of
the African Institution, 1825, 1826.

List of New Publications.

Index.

579

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ART. I.-Jerusalem Delivered; an Epic Poem, in Twenty Cantos; translated into English Spenserian Verse from the Italian of Tasso, &c. &c. By J. H. Wiffen. 8vo. London and Edinburgh.

MUCH didactic prose and poetry has been written upon the subject of translation: the substance of which may be comp ised in an exhortation to translate rather by equivalents than by literal version of the author's words. If we try the merit of this precept, however, by its fruits, we shall find that, though its adoption may have produced good poetry, it has not often produced the thing required. With the exception of

'Mittitur in disco mihi piscis ab archiepisco

-Po non ponatur quia potus non mihi datur.'

“I had sent me a fish in a great dish by the archbish-
-Hop is not here for he gave me no beer'

we do not know of above one good translation executed upon this system in more than a century from the time in which it was most popular. On the other hand, we have many, among the best in the language, and not despicable even as poetry, for which we are indebted to that severe style of version, which was in fashion before the doctrine of equivalents was broached. Among these, many of Ben Jonson's essays rank foremost, and Sandys' Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses may be deemed a happy. specimen of the school.

Yet it must be allowed, that the free. is the noble style of translation; that the only versions in our language, which rank as poems, are boldly executed; and that even the closest copyist must at times resort to equivalents, if he would give the real meaning of his original. This, however, is a daring and hazardous course; full of shoals so irregularly scattered, and often seen in such false lights, that there are few who have a sufficient perception of their dangers, or dexterity to avoid them. The most obvious of these dangers are modern and vulgar associations; of which we have spoken at large in a former Number: but there is another, which we do not remember to have seen laid down in any chart of criticism: this is, the resorting to some equivalent, which appears to convey the exact sense of the author, without observing the effect of that equivalent upon other parts of the text, under translation; a risk almost as perilous in its ultimate, though not

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