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The First Printed
Translations into English
of the
Great Foreign Classics
_A SUPPLEMENT TO TEXT-BOOKS
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE_
By
WILLIAM J. HARRIS, A.R.S.I.
BOROUGH LIBRARIAN, BROMLEY
LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LIMITED
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO
To my Wife
THE
FIRST PRINTED TRANSLATIONS
INTO ENGLISH
PREFACE
This bibliography has been compiled with the view of supplementing
existing text books on English literary history, and assisting
students in preparing for examinations in Bibliography and
Literature. It will also be found of service to those who are working
for the professional examinations of the Library Association.
Students of literature, more particularly of English literature,
experience much difficulty in tracing the outside influences which
at various periods, or, perhaps, speaking more correctly, at all
periods, have affected or moulded our literature. The great foreign
classics have exercised a direct and decided influence upon English
literature and the object of this bibliography is to give in concise
form the authors and titles, translations and dates of the first
English translations of the chief foreign authors, and incidentally
to enable students to note the effect of such translations on the
works of many of our great imaginative writers.
So far as it has been possible to discover, no work of this kind
exists in this country. Students are frequently reminded of the
special need for such a bibliography as this, and to all interested
in the subject it should serve a useful purpose, and perhaps help to
fill a gap in literary bibliography.
Students have been asked such questions as--give the date of the
first translation into English of _Don Quixote_, of _The Arabian
Nights_, Boccaccio's _Decameron_, or of Homer. Such questions as
these naturally involve some inquiry and research on the part of the
student, and occupy a larger amount of time than is necessary for the
purpose. Hence the necessity for a brief bibliography of this nature,
which will show at a glance the first translations into English of
the most important foreign classics, and save inquirers the fatigue
of searching catalogues, bibliographies and similar works.
The dictionary form of arrangement has been adopted with the authors
in alphabetical order. In some instances a work has been noticed
twice, in which case the first entry will generally be found to be
an edition, either issued in an incomplete form, or with a doubtful
date. It has also been found necessary to enumerate in nearly all
cases the separate works of each author; the complete works not
appearing till a much later time. The date of original publication
has occasionally been given in brackets, and where a date is seen in
square brackets [ ], it denotes the approximate date of publication.
The anthologies, collections, folk and fairy tales, poetical and
traditional literature have been placed in their national order under
French, German, etc., many important minor works have been published
in these forms, and many important poems have been first translated
in these anthologies, often long before they have appeared in the
author's translated works.
The most important of the Anglo-Saxon, etc., romances have been
included in this Bibliography and appear generally under their
titles. These have played a very important part in the development of
our literature, and many may be considered as foreign, having derived
their origin from foreign sources.
No one is more conscious than the compiler of the difficulties
this little work has entailed, and no one is more conscious of its
imperfections. As far as possible each entry has been verified at
least three times, and from different sources, yet inaccuracies may
have crept in, and any corrections, additions or suggestions will be
thankfully acknowledged.
This bibliography could have been much enlarged, but the endeavour
has been to include only those authors whose work has gone to the
making of English literature, or who stand pre-eminent as introducing
a special school, class or form.
I desire to offer to Mr. James D. Brown my best thanks for his
suggestions in the early stages of this compilation, and to Dr. Baker
for his kindly criticism, and also for going through the proofs.
WILLIAM JAMES HARRIS.
_April, 1909._
FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
=ABOUT, EDMOND.= _b_. 1828, _d_. 1885. =French Writer.=
COLONEL FOUGAS' MISTAKE. _Tr_. J. E. Maitland. 2 v. 1878.
FELLAH, THE: Story of an Honest Man. _Tr_. Sir R. Roberts, 1870.
KING OF THE MOUNTAINS. _Tr_. L. Wraxall. 1862.
LAWYER'S NOSE. _Tr_. J. E. Maitland, 1878.
MAN WITH THE BROKEN EAR. _Tr_. H. Holt, 1867.
NEW LEASE OF LIFE AND SAVING A DAUGHTER'S DOWRY. _Tr_. 1860.
ROMAN QUESTION. _Tr_. H. C. Coape, 1859.
ROUND OF WRONG. _Tr_. L. Wraxall, 1861.
SOLDIER LOVER. _Tr_. Elton Locke, 1886.
TOLLA: a Tale of Modern Rome. _Tr_. L. C. C. Constable's Miscellany
of For. Lit., 1854.
=ACHILLES TATIUS. Fourth Century. Greek writer.=
CLEITOPHON AND LEUCIPPE. _Tr_. by Rev. R. Smith, 1855.
One of the decadent Greek novelists. An erotic novel of a
conventional type.
=ÆLFRIC=. _c_. 1006.
THE CATHOLIC HOMILIES. _Ed_. with _tr_. B. Thorpe, Ælfric Soc.,
1844-46.
LIVES OF SAINTS. _Ed. Text_ and _Tr_. W. W. Skeat, E.E.T.S., 1881.
Eminent Saxon prelate, one of the most learned of his time. His
works, upwards of eighty in number, have been republished by
the Ælfric Soc. (London, 1844-46).
=ÆSCHINES.= B.C. _b._ 389, _d._ 314. =Greek orator=.
THE ORATIONS OF ÆSCHINES AGAINST CTESIPHON AND DEMOSTHENES DE CORONA.
_Tr._ with notes, Andrew Portal, 1755.
Only three orations of A. are extant, and they relate to
charges of 'malversation and corruption against Demosthenes'.
The 'De Corona of D.' (330 B.C.) is in reply to Æschines.
=ÆSCHYLUS.= _b._ 525, _d._ 456 B.C. =The first of the three great
tragic poets of Greece.=
THE TRAGEDIES. _Tr._ by R. Potter, 1777-8.
The tragedies of Æschylus have affected English drama chiefly
through French and Italian dramatists. 'Samson Agonistes,' by
Milton, and 'Prometheus Unbound,' by Shelley, are unmistakable
echoes, and the latter was intended to be a sequel to Æschylus'
'Prometheus Bound'. 'Manfred' and 'Cain', by Byron, are
modelled upon A. Influenced also Racine and Corneille. The
most famous speech in Swinburne's 'Atalanta in Calydon' is a
translation from A.
=ÆSOP.= 6th century B.C. =Fabulist.=
Here begynneth the book of the Subtyl Historyes and Fables of
Esope.... Translated out of the French into Englysshe by William
Caxton, 1484.
The fables of Æsop are among the very earliest of their kind,
and probably have never been surpassed for point and brevity.
Nearly all subsequent fables are based upon Æsop. Has affected
all European literature. All educated or even intelligent Greeks
were supposed to know Æsop, hence their important influence.
=ALAMANNI, LUIGI=, _The Elder_. _b._ 1495, _d._ 1556. =Italian poet.=
LA COLTIVAZIONE (1546). [Didactic poem on agriculture.]
_See 'Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of the Century'._
=ALCAEUS.= _b._ 610 B.C., _d._ 580 B.C. =Greek lyric poet.=
The purest text of this poet will be found in the 'Museum
Criticum', vol. i. pp. 421-44. Edited by Bishop Blomfield.
'Museum Criticum, or Cambridge Classical Researches,' 1814-25,
2v.
Said to have invented the metre called 'Alcaic'. The style has
been much imitated.
=ALCORAN.= See =Koran=.
=ALEMAN, MATEO.= _b._ 1550 (?) _d._ 1610. S=panish Writer.=
THE LIFE OF GUZMAN D'ALFARACHE, or THE SPANISH ROGUE (1599), to which
is added the celebrated tragi-comedy Celestina. Done into English
... By several hands. 2 v., 1708. 1_st_ _Tr._ 1623.
THE ROGUE; or, THE LIFE OF GUZMAN DE ALFARACHE. [_Tr._ I. Mabbe].
1623.
=ALEMBERT, JEAN D'.= _b._ 1717, _d._ 1783. =French philosopher,
litterateur and mathematician.=
ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JESUITS IN FRANCE. _Tr._ 1766.
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES IN LIT. HIST., AND PHILOSOPHY. 1746.
SPIRIT OF LAWS. _Tr._ 1846.
=ALEXANDER.= For a summary of the growth of the saga of Alexander,
see Ten Brink, Hist. of Eng. Lit. v.i. In England, the adaptation by
Thomas or Eustace of Kent (Roman de toute chevalerie) led the way to
the alliterative romance of King Alisaunder.
_See also_ ALEXANDER AND DINDIMUS. _Ed._ W. W. Skeat. E.E.T.S.
WARS OF A. _Ed._ Stevenson, 1849.
THE BUIK OF THE MOST NOBLE AND VAILZEAND CONQUEROUR, A. THE GREAT.
Bannatyne Club, 1834.
KING ALEXANDER. A Greek romance upon him had been written in 1060
by Simon Seth. This romance was _tr._ into Latin and became the
groundwork of many French and English poems. In 1200 Gaultier de
Chatillon turned it into an 'Alexandreis' which was one of the best
Latin poems of the Middle Ages.
At about the beginning of the reign of John the great French
romance was composed in nine books, containing altogether about
20,000 of the twelve-syllabled lines since known, from their
use in that poem, as 'Alexandrines'.
=ALEXANDER=, Wars of. _Ed._ Prof. W. W. Skeat. E.E.T.S., 1886.
=ALISAUNDER.= _Ed._ Skeat. E.E.T.S.
ALEXANDER AND DINDIMUS. Letters of A. to D., King of the Brahmans,
and his replies. _Tr._ from Latin, cir. 1340-50. (Skeat). _Ed._
Stevenson, 1849.
=ALEXANDER.=
LIFE OF ALISAUNDER.
_Ed._ Weber. METRICAL ROMANCES, 1810.
=ALFIERI, VITTORIO, COUNT.= _b._ 1749, _d._ 1803. =Italian Poet.=
TRAGEDIES. _Tr._ by Charles Lloyd, 1815.
_Contents_: 'Cleopatra', 'Phillipo II', 'Virginia', 'Orestes',
'Mary Stuart', 'Octavia', 'Merope', 'Saul'.
=ALFRED.= _b._ 849, _d._ 901. =King.=
GREGORY'S CURA PASTORALIS. _Ed. Text_ and _Tr._ H. Sweet, E.E.T.S.,
1871-72.
BAEDA'S HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA. _Ed._ Miller, E.E.T.S., 1890.
OROSII HISTORIA. A History of the World to 410. _Ed._ H. Sweet,
E.E.T.S., 1883.
BOETHIUS. DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIÆ. _Ed. Text_ and _Tr._ Fox, 1864.
LAWS. _Ed._ 'Legal Code of Alfred the Great', Milton Haigh Turk, 1893.
_Works ascribed to Alfred._
PROSE VERSION OF PSALMS. _Ed._ Thorpe, 1835.
A MARTYROLOGY. _Ed._ J. Herzfeld, E.E.T.S., 1900.
=AMADIS DE GAULA.= (End of 14th century.) =The hero of the famous
romance of chivalry.=
THE FIRST BOOK OF A. OF GAULE [By V. de Lobeira. Translated from the
French version, by A. Munday.] MS. note [by Dr. Farmer]. [1590?]
THE SECOND BOOKE OF A. DE GAULE [By V. de Lobeira. Englished by
L(azarus) P(yote).] [Pseud. i.e. Anthony Munday.] 1595.
THE ANCIENT ... AND HONOURABLE HISTORY OF A. DE GAULE. (The
First-fourth Booke.) _Tr._ from the Spanish ... by Lord of Essaro, N.
de Herberay, etc. _Tr._ into English by (Anthony Munday), 1619.
AMADIS OF GAUL. _Tr._ R. Southey, 1872. An imitation of the Arthurian
romances.
These extravagant chivalric romances, with their even more
phantastic descendants dating from thirteenth century, had a
great vogue for about 300 years, but were ridiculed out of
existence by Cervantes.
'Like the Arthurian and Carlovingian romances, portrays the
manners, the religion, and the ideas of love, honour and
morality that prevailed when it was written. The "Amadis", says
Ticknor, is admitted by general consent to be the best of all
the old romances of chivalry'.
=AMBROGINI, ANGELO.= _See_ =Poliziana=.
=AMIEL, H. F.= =French Writer.=
JOURNAL IN TIME. _Tr._ Mrs. H. Ward. 2 v. 1885.
=AMIS AND AMILOUN.= =Thirteenth century.=
_Ed._ Weber. METRICAL ROMANCES, vol. 2. 1810.
OF THE FRIENDSHIP OF AMIS AND AMILE. _Tr._ Wm. Morris, 1894.
[Kelmscott Pr.].
=AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS.= _b._ 320, _d._ 390. =Greek-Latin historian.=
THE ROMAN HISTORIE. _Tr._ Philemon Holland, 1609.
=ANACREON, BION, MOSCHUS.= ... _Tr._ T. Stanley, 1651.
ANACRAEON DONE INTO ENGLISH OUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK. By T. Wood, A.
Cowley, J. Oldham and Francis Willis, 1683.
The influence of Anacreon on English literature was chiefly
through Horace; Waller, Lovelace, Herrick and Suckling imitated
the lyrics of A. to a great extent.
=ANCREN RIWLE.= =Assigned to Richard le Poor.= _d._ 1237.
_Ed._ J. Morton, Camden Soc., 1853.
=ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN=, _b._ 1805, _d._ 1875.
FAIRY TALES. DANISH FAIRY LEGENDS AND TALES. _Tr._ 1846. ONLY A
FIDDLER, and O. T., OR LIFE IN DENMARK. _Tr._ by Howitt, 1845.
=ANDERSEN, HANS C.=
DANISH FAIRY LEGENDS AND TALES. _Tr._ 1846.
IMPROVISATORE: or LIFE IN ITALY. _Tr._ M. Howitt, 1845.
NIGHTINGALE AND OTHER TALES. _Tr._ C. Boner, 1846.
PICTURES OF TRAVEL IN SWEDEN.... _Tr._ 1871.
SHOES OF FORTUNE. _Tr._ 1847.
TALES. Selected. _Tr._ 1875.
TRUE STORY OF MY LIFE. _Tr._ M. Howitt, 1847.
THE TWO BARONESSES. 2 v. _Tr._ 1848.
TO BE, or NOT TO BE? _Tr._ Mrs. Bushby, 1857.
THE UGLY DUCK. _Tr._ 1851.
THE WHITE SWANS. _Tr._ [1863].
WILL O' THE WISP, etc. _Tr._ H. W. DULCKEN [1867].
WONDERFUL STORIES FOR CHILDREN. _Tr._ M. Howitt, 1846.
One of the great story-tellers of the world.
His original genius is most conspicuous in his fairy tales. His
numerous works have been translated into most of the European
languages.
=ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE.=
A national record of events, which is said to have been begun
at the instance of King Alfred the Great (849-901). Its last
record is of the accession of Henry II, 1154. It is the oldest
historical work written in any Germanic language, and is the
basis of most of our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon History.
THE SAXON CHRONICLE, with an English translation. _Ed._ by James
Ingram, 1823.
THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, with a translation. _Ed._ by Benjamin
Thorpe. _Rolls Series_, 1861.
THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE. _Tr._ by J. A. Giles, 1847, and by J.
Stevenson, 1853.
=ANGLO-SAXON ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.= _See_ =Anthologies, etc.=
=ANTHOLOGIES: ANGLO-SAXON, AND GENERAL COLLECTIONS. Poetical, Fairy
Tales, Folk-Tales and Traditional Literature.=
ASHTON, JOHN. THE ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY, TOLD AND ILLUSTRATED IN
FACSIMILE. 1886-89.
[Sir Isumbras, Sir Degore, Sir Bevis, Squyr of Lowe Degre,
Valentyne and Orson, Guy of Warwick, etc.]
BOWRING, SIR J. _Tr._ SERVIAN POETRY. 1827.
CHILD, F. J. ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS. 5 v. 1882.
CLOUSTON, W. A. POPULAR TALES AND FICTIONS. 2 v. 1887.
COX, SIR G. W. _and_ E. H. JONES. POPULAR ROMANCES OF THE MIDDLE
AGES. 1871-72.
[Arthur, Merlin, Sir Tristram, Bevis, Guy, Roland, Beowulf,
Volsungs, Nibelungs, Walter of Aquitaine, Godrun, Fritheof,
Burnt Njal, etc.]
CROXALL, S. A SELECT COLLECTION OF NOVELS, written by the most
celebrated authors in several languages ... and all now translated
from the originals by several eminent hands. 6 v. 1720-2.
[Contains: Cervantes's Exemplary Novels; La Fayette's 'Princess
of Cleves', and 'Zaide'; Machiavelli's 'Marriage of Belphegor';
Scarron's 'Innocent Adultery'; 'Historical Tales of the Abbé
Réal'; and various anonymous tales from the French.]
ELLIS, G. _Ed._ SPECIMENS OF EARLY ENGLISH METRICAL ROMANCES. _Ed._
J. O. Halliwell [Phillips]. 1805. Revised by Halliwell, J. O., 1848.
Contains analysis of the following: Peter Alphonsus, Marie's Lays,
Merlin, Guy of Warwick, Morte Arthur, Sir Bevis, Richard C. de
L., Roland and Ferragus, Sir Otuel, Sir Ferumbras, The Seven Wise
Masters, Florice and Blancheflour. Robert of Cysille, Sir Isumbras,
Sir Triamour, Ipomydon, Sir Eglamour, Lay le Fraine, Sir Eger, Sir
Grahame and Sir Graysteel, Sir Degoré, Roswal and Lillian, and Amys
and Amylion.
GIBB, J. GUDRUN, BEOWULF, THE SONG OF ROLAND AND OTHER MEDIEVAL
TALES. 1881.
GOULART, SIMON. ADMIRABLE AND MEMORABLE HISTORIES, CONTAINING
THE WONDERS OF OUR TIME. Collected into French out of the best
authors.... _Tr._ by Edw. Grimstone. 1607.
[To this work our early dramatists were much indebted.]
GROUP OF EASTERN ROMANCES AND STORIES. 1889.
HALLIWELL, J. O. THORNTON ROMANCES. Camden Soc., 1844.
Percival, Isumbras, Eglamour, Degravant.
HARTSHORNE, C. H. ANCIENT METRICAL TALES. 1829.
Athelston, King Edward and Shepherd, Floris, William the
Werwolf, etc.
JOYCE, P. W. _Tr._ OLD CELTIC ROMANCES. [Eng. _tr._ from Celtic
MSS.]. 1879.
KEMBLE, J. M. _Ed._ CODEX VERCELLENSIS, ANGLO-SAXON POETRY OF THE.
_Aelfric Soc._ 1843-56.
[1. Legend of St. Andrew. 2. Cynewulf's Elene, and Minor Poems.]
LABOULAYE, EDWARD R. L.
1. FAIRY TALES OF ALL NATIONS. _Tr._ 1867.
2. LAST FAIRY TALES. _Tr._ by M. L. Booth,
1884.
3. OLD WIVES FABLES. _Tr._ [1883].
4. MORE OLD WIVES FABLES. _Tr._ [1884].
LONGFELLOW, HENRY W. _Ed._ and _tr._ POETS AND POETRY OF EUROPE. With
Intro. and Biographical notes. 1838.
LUDLOW, JOHN MALCOLM. POPULAR EPICS OF THE MIDDLE AGES OF THE
NORSE-GERMAN AND CARLOVINGIAN CYCLES. 2 v. 1865.
MARRIOTT, DR. W. _Ed._ COLLECTION OF ENGLISH MIRACLE PLAYS. 1838.
Ten dramas from the Chester, Coventry, and Towneley series,
with two of later date.
'MEREDITH, OWEN'. [Ld. Lytton]. _Tr._
SERBSKI PESME: the National Songs of Servia. 1861.
MORLEY, Prof. H. _Ed._ EARLY PROSE ROMANCES. 1889.
Specimens of 1. Reynard, 2. Fryer Bacon, 3. Robert the Devil,
4. Guy of Warwick, 5. Hamlet, 6. Virgilius, 7. Friar Rush.
MORRIS, Dr. H. _Ed._ EARLY ENGLISH
METRICAL POEMS, _c._ 1360. E.E.T.S., 1864.
MORRIS, DR. R. OLD ENGLISH MISCELLANY. [A Bestiary, Kentish sermons,
'Prov. of Alfred', Relig. Poem, 13th century]. E.E.T.S., 1872.
MULOCK, D. M. _Tr._ THE FAIRY BOOK. 1863.
PABKE, MARIE _and_ M. J. PITMAN. WONDER-WORLD STORIES FROM THE
CHINESE, FRENCH, GERMAN, HEBREW, HINDOOSTANI, HUNGARIAN, IRISH,
ITALIAN, RUSSIAN, SWEDISH AND TURKISH. 1877.
PAINTER, WILLIAM. PALACE OF PLEASURE. Beautified, adorned and well
furnished with pleasant histories and excellent novels, selected out
of divers good and commendable authors. 1566-69.
[A collection of tales, chiefly by Boccaccio and Bandello, on
which many of the Elizabethan writers founded their plots.]
RITCHIE, LEITCH. Editor of the Library of Romance. 15 v. 1833-35.
[Contains stories by Galt, Banim, Victor Hugo, Pichler, etc.]
THORPE, BENJ., _Ed._ CODEX EXONIENSIS. Collection of Anglo-Saxon
Poetry, with _Tr._ in par. cols. 1842.
[Another edition by I. Gollancz has been issued by the _Early
English Text Soc._]
RITSON, J. ANCIENT ENGLISH METRICAL ROMANCES. 3 v. 1802. The Wedding
of Sir Gawain, Ywaine and Gawin, Launfal, Lybeaus Disconus, The Geste
of King Horn, The Kyng of Tars and the Sudan of Damas, Emare, Sir
Orpheo, Chronicle of Engleland, Le bone Florence of Rome, The Erle
of Tolous, The Squyer of Lowe Degree, The Knight of Curtesy, and the
Fair Lady of Faguell, (Appendix) Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild.
ROBSON, J. THREE EARLY ENGLISH METRICAL ROMANCES. Camden Soc. No. 18.
1842.
Anturs of Arther, Sir Amadace, The Avowynge of King Arther, Sir
Gowan, Sir Kaye and Sir Bawdewyn of Bretan.
SKENE, W. F. _Ed._ THE FOUR ANCIENT BOOKS OF WALES. 2 v. 1868.
Contains the Cymric poems attributed to the bards of the sixth
century.
SWEET, H. _Ed._ THE OLDEST ENGLISH TEXTS. E.E.T.Soc. 1885.
Including all the extant oldest English texts up to about 900,
which are preserved in contemporary MSS., with the exception of
the 'Chronicle' and the works of Alfred.
THOMS, WM. J. _Ed._ EARLY PROSE ROMANCES. 3 v. 1828.
Vol. 1. 'Robert the Devyll'; Deloney's 'Thomas of Reading'; 'The
History of Friar Bacon'; 'The Pleasant History of Friar Rush'; 'The
Lyfe of Virgilius'; vol. 2. 'Robin Hood'; 'George à Green'; 'Tom à
Lincolne'; vol. 3. The History of Helyas, Knight of the Swan. The
History of the Life and Death of Dr. John Faustus. The second Report
of Dr. John Faustus.
UTTERSON, R. SELECT PIECES OF EARLY POPULAR POETRY. 2 v. 1817.
Syr Tryamoure, Syr Isenbras, Syr Degore, Syr Gowghter.
WAGNER, WILHELM. EPICS AND ROMANCES OF THE MIDDLE AGES. _Tr._ from
the German by M. W. Macdonald and _Ed._ by W. S. W. Anson 1882.
WEBER, HENRY W. ILLUSTRATIONS OF NORTHERN ANTIQUITIES FROM THE
EARLIEST TEUTONIC AND SCANDINAVIAN ROMANCES. With Translations of
Metrical Tales, notes and illustrations by H. W. Jamieson and Sir W.
Scott. 1811.
METRICAL ROMANCES OF THE 13TH, 14TH AND 15TH CENTURIES, published
from original MSS. With an Introduction, 3 v. 1810.
TALES OF THE EAST. 3 v. 1811.
_See also_ under various countries as =Spanish=, etc.
=APOLLONIUS OF TYRE. Greek Romance.=
KYNGE APPOLYN OF THYRE. _Tr._ by Rob. Copland, 1510.
This romance forms the 153rd chapter of an edition of the
'Gesta Romanorum', printed in 1488, and is considered as the
probable original of the play of 'Pericles'. It was rendered
into Anglo-Saxon. [_Tr._ by Thorpe.]
=APOLLONIUS RHODIUS.= B.C. _b_. 235. =Greek poet.=
ARGONAUTICS, in four books, by Francis Fawkes, 1780.
=APPIAN.= _b._ 138, _d._ 161. =Greek historian.=
THE ANCIENT HISTORIE AND EXQUISITE CHRONICLE OF THE ROMAN WARRES....
1578.
The history is a compilation. Of the twenty-four books only
eleven are extant.
=APULEIUS.= _b._ 125. =Latin writer and Pagan Philosopher of the
Platonic School.=
FABLE OF CUPID AND PSYCHE. (Verse translation) by Thos. Taylor. 1795.
THE XI. BOOKES OF THE GOLDEN ASSE, CONTEININGE THE METAMORPHOSIE OF
L. A. _Tr._ by W. Adlington. 1566.
[Supposed by some to be a satire on magicians, priests and
debauchees. Has often been imitated.]
=AQUINAS, THOMAS.= _Saint_, _b._ 1226, _d._ 1274. =Eminent scholastic
teacher. The greatest of the 'Schoolmen'.=
MEDITATIONS OF ST. THOMAS ON THE PURGATIVE, ILLUMINATIVE AND UNITIVE
WAYS FOR A RETREAT OF TEN DAYS. _Tr._ 1869.
MEMORANDA OF ANGELICAL DOCTRINE, FROM LADY DAY TO THE ASCENTION:
digested and done into English ... by W. Humphrey. 1866.
SUMMA THEOLOGIA. Compendium. _Tr._ by E. O'Donnell. 2 v. 1859.
=ARABIAN ANTHOLOGY: COLLECTIONS.=
CARLYLE, J. D. _Tr._ SPECIMENS OF ARABIAN POETRY, FROM THE EARLIEST
TIMES TO THE EXTINCTION OF THE KALIFAT. 1796.
CLOUSTON, W. A. ARABIAN POETRY FOR ENGLISH READERS. 1881.
LYALL, SIR C. J. TRANSLATIONS OF ANCIENT ARABIAN POETRY, with an
introduction and notes. 1885.
PRIDEAUX, W. F. THE LAY OF THE HIMYARITES. 1879.
=ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT:= consisting of one thousand and one
stories.... Translated into French from the Arabian MSS. by M.
Galland (1704) ... and now done into English [1710]. 2nd edition,
1712; 4th edition, 1713-15. 6 vols.
'The most famous product of Arabian literature: a large
collection of entertaining tales of unknown origin. The stories
of Aladdin, of Sindbad the Sailor, of Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves, and many others, are as well known to English people
of every age as any stories from their native literature.'
The influence of these stories on English literature is
incalculable.
=ARANY, JOHN.= _b._ 1819, _d._ 1882. =Hungarian poet.=
LEGEND OF THE WONDROUS HUNT. _Tr._ E. D. Butler, 1881.
=ARETINO, PIETRO.= _b._ 1492, _d._ 1557. =Satirical Italian Writer,
surnamed 'The Scourge of Princes'.=
DIALOGUES, COMEDIES, LETTERS. 1538-57.
SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS. (No translation given).
Imitated largely by Nash, ('The English Aretino',) and the
Elizabethan pamphleteers.
=ARIOSTO, LODOVICO.= _b._ 1474, _d._ 1533. =Italian poet.=
ORLANDO FURIOSO IN ENGLISH HEROICAL VERSE. By J. Harrington. (1516).
[Allegorie of Orlando Furioso,--Life of Ariosto]. 1591.
ORLANDO FURIOSO. _Tr._ by Thos. Carew [1st five books only]. 1594.
SATYRES, IN SEVEN FAMOUS DISCOURSES, shewing the State, (1) of the
Court, and Courtiers. (2) Of Libertie, and the Clergie in generall.
(3) Of the Romance Clergie. (4) Of Marriage. (5) Of Soldiers,
Musitians, and Lovers. (6) Of Schoolmasters and Scholes. (7) Of
Honour, and the Happiest Life. _Tr._ In English by Gervase Markham
[or rather by R. T.(ofte)]. 1608.
THE SUPPOSES (I Suppositi): A comedie written in the Italian Tongue
by A. and Englisshed by G. Gascoygne. In. ('A Hundreth Sundrie
Flowers, etc.') [1572].
TWO TALES. _Tr._ by R[obert] T[ofte]. 1597.
'Ariosto', says Hallam, 'has been, after Homer, the favourite
poet of Europe.'
A. based his epics on the writings of Virgil. He was Spenser's
favourite poet, who suggested the style and form used in the
'Faerie Queene'.
'Orlando Furioso' is closely imitated from Boiardo's 'Orlando
Innamorato.' His 'Satyres' are written in the Horatian manner.
=ARISTOPHANES=, _b._ 448, _d._ 380 B.C. =The most famous comic poet
of Greece.=
THE BIRDS OF A. From the Text of Dindorf. With notes by H. P.
Cookesley, 1834.
THE CLOUDS: a comedy (423) _Tr._ by Mr. Theobald, 1715.
COMEDIES (5). _Tr._ by T. Mitchell, 1820-3.
THE FROGS: a comedy. _Tr._ by C. Dunster, [1780].
A PLEASANT COMEDY ENTITLED HEY FOR HONESTY, DOWN WITH KNAVERY. Tr. by
Thos. Randorph, 1651.
THE WORLD'S IDOL; or, PLUTUS THE GOD OF WEALTH. From the Greek by H.
H. B. 1659.
The comedies of A. bear a close resemblance to the work of our
comic playwriters to-day.
=ARISTOTLE=, _b._ 384, _d._ 322 B.C. =Greek philosopher.=
ARISTOTLE'S RHETORIC ... MADE ENGLISH ... [with a preface subscribed
H. C.] In four books. 1656.
THE ART OF LOGIC.... _Tr._ from the Latin of the Dialectica of P. de
La Ramée, 1626.
THE ART OF POETRY. With Dacier's notes. 1705.
DE ANIMA. The History of Animals and Treatise on Physiognomy. _Tr._
1809.
_The Same._ With notes and _tr._ by E. Wallace, 1882.
ARISTOTLE ON THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION. _Tr._ F. G. Kenyon, 1891.
THE ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE, THAT IS TO SAYE, PRECEPTS OF GOOD
BEHAVIOURE, AND PERFIGHTE HONESTIE. _Tr._ [by J. Wilkinson]. 1547.
TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT. _Tr._ by W. Ellis, 1776.
POLITIQUES, translated out of Greek into French, with Expositions, by
Loys le Roy, called Regius. _Tr._ out of French into English, 1597.
THE PROBLEMS OF ARISTOTLE, WITH OTHER PHILOSOPHERS AND PHISITIONS....
1597.
WORKS OF ARISTOTLE, translated and illustrated with copious
Elucidations. By Thomas Taylor, 10 v. 1806-12.
'In the history of Western civilization there is no example of
any other philosopher having exerted so great an influence on
the minds of men as Aristotle'.
'A. dominated the thinking of the Middle Ages' (Schoolmen).
Puttenham's 'Art of English Poesie', Sidney's 'Defence of
Poesie', and Dryden's 'Of Dramatic Poesie', all influenced by A.
=ARRIAN.= _b._ 146, _d._ 170. =Greek historian.=
ARRIAN'S HISTORY OF ALEXANDER'S EXPEDITION.... By John Rooke,
Arrian's Indian-History.... 2 v. 1729.
=ARTHOUR AND MERLIN.= _Ed._ Turnbull, Abbotsford Club, 1838.
_Ed._ Wheatley. E.E.T.S., 1869-99.
=ARTHUR.=
ARTHUR, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN. A Book of the Noble Hystoryes of Kynge
Arthur, and of Certeyn of his knyghtes, reduced into Englysshe by Syr
Thomas Malory, Kynght and by me William Caxton. 1485.
Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King' and Arnold's 'Tristram and
Iseult' are taken from the above legends.
(Also noticed under Anglo-Saxon collections.)
'In 1155 the Jersey Norman, Robert Wace, converts and amplifies
Geoffrey's work into the French romance "Brut d'Engleterre" or
"Geste des Bretons", introducing for the first time the Table
Round. This again is developed in English verse by Layamon in
his "Brut" of 1205. From various sources and by various hands,
the Arthurian legends are increased. Milton for a time was
strongly attached to this subject, and in his "Epitaphium
Damonis" he shows the hold which the Arthurian legends had
taken upon him, and he explicitly proposed to make Arthur and
the British knights the subject of an epic'.
=ARTHUR. 14th century.=
_Ed._ Furnivall, E.E.T.S., 1864.
=ARTHUR OF LITTLE BRITAIN.= THE HYSTORY OF ARTHUR OF LYTELL BRYTAYNE,
translated out of Frensshe in to Englishe, by the noble Johan
Bourghcher, Knyght, Lord Berners. 1493.
Not the Arthurian legend, but irresponsible adventures like the
Amadis. Said to have had a great influence on Spenser's Faerie
Queene.
Arthur and Charlemagne are among the first and original heroes of
romance, in whose chronicles are displayed the characters, the
leading subjects, and the fundamental fictions which have supplied
such ample matter to this form of composition. 'As Geoffrey's history
is the grand repository of the acts of Arthur, so a fabulous history,
ascribed to Archbishop Turpin, is the groundwork of all the legends
told of the conquest of Charlemagne and his twelve peers'.
=AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE=, a love story, edited in old French and
rendered in modern English ... by F. W. Bourdillon. _Fr. and Eng._
1887.
=AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE=: done into English by A. Lang, 1887.
[A quaint and naïve little Provençal chante fable of the 12th
century.]
=AUERBACH, BERTHOLD.= _b._ 1812, _d._ 1882. =German-Jewish writer and
poet.=
BAREFOOTED MAIDEN. _Tr._ E. H. Wehnert. 1857.
BLACK FOREST TALES. (1843). _Tr._ J. E. Taylor, 1849.
A faithful record of German conditions in the early half of
19th century.
BRIGITTA. _Tr._ C. Bell, 1880.
CINDERELLA OF THE BLACK FOREST. _Tr._ 1861.
CHRISTIAN GELLERT, etc. _Tr._ 1858.
COUNTRY HOUSE ON THE RHINE. (1870). 3 v. 1870.
EDELWEISS. _Tr._ 1869.
FLORIAN AND CRESCENY. _Tr._ M. Taylor, 1853.
[GELLERT THE STEPMOTHER]. _Tr._ 1882.
GOOD HOUR, THE. _Tr._ H. W. Dulcken. [1876].
JOSEPH IN THE SNOW AND THE CLOCKMAKER. _Tr._ Lady Wallace. 3 v. 1861.
LITTLE BAREFOOT. _Tr._ 1872.
ON THE HEIGHTS. _Tr._ 1867.
PROFESSOR'S WIFE. _Tr._ 1851.
TALES OF THE BLACK FOREST. _Tr._ 1890.
TWO STORIES. _Tr._ [1869].
VILLAGE TALES, FROM THE BLACK FOREST. _Tr._ M. Taylor. 2 v. 1846-47.
=AUGUSTINE, ST.= _b._ 353, _d._ 430. =The most illustrious Latin
Father of the Church.=
THE CONFESSIONS ... OF S. AUGUSTINE (397). _Tr._ [by Sir. T.
Matthew], together with a large preface, etc. 1620.
THE MYRROUR OF THE CHURCH, MADE BY SAYNT AUSTYN OF ABYNDON. _Tr._
1521.
THE RULE OF ST. AUGUSTINE, BOTH IN LATYN AND ENGLYSSHE, WITH TWO
EXPOSYCYONS. By Rycharde Whytforde, 1525.
ST. AUGUSTINE OF THE CITIE OF GOD: with the learned comments of J. L.
Vives. (413-26) Englished by J. Healey, 1610.
A WORKE OF THE PREDESTINATION OF SAINTS, wrytten by the famous
doctor S. Augustine, and translated ... by N. Lesse, Londoner. Item.
Another worke of the sayde Augustyne, entytuled. OF THE VERTUE OF
PERSEVERANCE TO THE END _Tr._ by N. L[esse]. 1550.
The 'City of God' was influenced by Plato's 'Republic', as also
was Bacon's 'Atlantis' and More's 'Utopia'.
=AURELIUS, MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS.= _See under_ =Marcus Aurelius
Antoninus=.
=AULUS GELLIUS.= _See_ =Gellius, Aulus.=
=AUNGERVYLE, RICHARD.= _See_ =Richard de Bury.=
=AUSTRIAN AND HUNGARIAN ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.=
BOWRING, Sir J. POETRY OF THE MAGYARS. 1830.
BUTLER, E. D. _Tr._ HUNGARIAN POEMS AND FABLES FOR ENGLISH READERS.
1877.
LOEW, W. N. _Editor._ GEMS FROM PETOFI AND OTHER HUNGARIAN POETS.
1881. [Enlarged and revised as Magyar Poetry, 1899].
VERNALAKEN, FRIEDRICH T. _Tr._ IN THE LAND OF MARVELS: Folk Tales of
Austria and Bohemia. _Tr._ by Johnson. 1884-8.
=AVESTA.= _See_ ZEND AVESTA.
=BACON, ROGER=, _b._ 1214, _d._ 1294. =Franciscan Friar, philosopher,
mathematician.=
DISCOVERY OF THE MIRACLES OF ART AND NATURE, AND MAGIC. _Tr._ 1597.
THE CURE OF OLD AGE AND PRESERVATION OF YOUTH. _Tr._ 1683.
MIRROR OF ALCHEMY. _Tr._ 1597.
INEDITED WORKS. _Ed._ by J. S. Brewer. 1859.
THE FAMOUS HISTORIE OF FRYER BACON. 16th Century.
'Containing the Wonderful Things that he did in his life: also the
manner of his death; with the lives and deaths of the two Coniurers,
Bungye and Vandermast. An Elizabethan version of an earlier story of
the great Franciscan (1214-92) and his achievements, which are after
the manner of the time ascribed to necromantic powers. Notable as the
story on which Greene based his finest play'.
=BALBO, CESARE.= _b._ 1789, _d._ 1853. =Italian writer and statesman.=
TONIOTTO AND MARIA; A TALE OF THE CONSCRIPTION. _Tr._ [1872].
LIFE AND TIMES OF DANTE ALIGHIERI.... _Tr._ F. J. Bunbury. 2 v. 1852.
=BALZAC, HONORÉ DE.= _b._ 1799, _d._ 1850. =French novelist.=
AFTER DINNER STORIES. _Tr._ 1885.
BUREAUCRACY. _Tr._ by K. P. Wormeley. 1889.
CESAR BITTOREAU. (1838.) _Tr._ by J. H. Simpson, 1860. [_Vol. 1. of
the Balzac Series_].
CHOUANS, THE. (1829.) _Tr._ 1889.
COMEDY OF HUMAN LIFE. _Tr._ by K. P. Wormeley. 1885.
COUNTRY DOCTOR. (1833.) _Tr._ 1887.
COUSIN PONS. (1846.) _Tr._ 1885.
DUCHESSE DE LANGEAIS. (1834). _Tr._ 1885.
EUGENE GRANDET. (1833.) _Tr._ 1886.
GREAT MEN OF THE PROVINCES. _Tr._ 1893.
HOUSE OF CLAES. _Tr._ 1887.
HUMAN COMEDY. _Tr._ E. Sedgwick, etc., 1895.
LOUIS LAMBERT. (1832.) _Tr._ by K. P. Wormeley, 1889.
MAGIC SKIN. _Tr._ 1888.
MODESTE MIGNON. (1844.) _Tr._ 1888.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER: or, LA MARANA. _Tr._ 1842. [1st Series of
'Scènes de la Vie Parisienne'.]
PERE GORIOT: _or_, UNREQUITED AFFECTION. _Tr._ 1860.
SERAPHITA. (1831-3.) _Tr._ by G. F. Parsons, 1889.
TWO BROTHERS. 1888.
His acuteness of observation and brilliant fancy, often
unnatural and extravagant, has largely influenced modern
English romancists.
=BANDELLO, MATTEO.= _b._ 1480, _d._ 1561. =Italian novelist and
Dominican monk.=
CERTAIN DISCOURSES. _Tr._ by Geffrie Fenton, 1567.
THE TRAGICAL HISTORYE OF ROMEUS AND JULIET, written first in Italian
by Bandello, and now in Englishe by Ar.[thur] Br.[oke]. 1562.
A MOST LAMENTABLE AND TRAGICAL HISTORIE, WHICH A SPANISH GENTLEWOMAN
NAMED VIOLENTA EXECUTED UPON HER LOVER DIDACO.... Newly translated
into English meeter by T. A. [Thomas Acheley]. 1576.
'The Bishop of Agen, was the most important of the Italian
_novellieri_. His "Novello" is a popular story, derived from
the French _fabliau_, full of spirited action, and true to the
life of his time'.
Shakespeare, Massinger and other English dramatists derived
some of their plots from B. Thus 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Measure
for Measure', 'Othello', etc., are all from the 'Novello'. The
Elizabethans also imitated B. largely.
The stories of Bandello enjoyed a wide vogue in France and
England, and formed matter for the exploitation of every class
of our Elizabethan dramatists and writers of fiction.
=BARBADILLO, DON ALONSO GERONIMO DE SALAS= _b._ 1580, _d._ 1630.
=Spanish poet and dramatist.=
FORTUNATE FOOL. _Tr._ from the Spanish by Philip Ayres. 1670.
=BARBOUR, JOHN.= _b._ 1316, _d._ 1396.
THE BRUCE. _Ed._ Skeat, E.E.T.S., 1870-77.
The Bruce is a history in verse of the life and deeds of Robert
Bruce.
=BARCLAY, JOHN.= _b._ 1582, _d._ 1621.
ARGENIS; or THE LOVES OF POLIARCHUS AND ARGENIS. 1611.
'A political allegory, written originally in Latin. B.
reconstructs the map of Europe, and, giving classical names
to the important personages of the era of the religious wars,
weaves an elaborate and perplexing romance full of surprises
and of double meanings'.
=BARON MUNCHAUSEN.= (German, 16th century.)
Falsely reputed to be the work of Bürger, the ballad-writer and
author of 'Lenore'. 'Perhaps the most perfectly ridiculous set
of impossible lies ever invented'.
GULLIVER REVIVED; or THE SINGULAR TRAVELS, CAMPAIGNS, VOYAGES, AND
ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNIKHOUSEN, COMMONLY CALLED MUNCKHAUSEN. _Tr._
1785.
=BATTLE OF FINNSBURG.= Fragment only. Text with _Tr._ by Thorpe, 1855.
=BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES P.= _b._ 1821, _d._ 1867. =French poet and
critic.=
ECHOES FROM THE FRENCH POETS. An Anthology from Baudelaire, etc.
_Tr._ 1870.
TRANSLATIONS FROM C. B. _Tr._ R. H. Shepherd, 1869.
=BAUMBACH, RUDOLPH.= _b._ 1841. =German poet.=
SUMMER LEGENDS. _Tr._ 1889.
TALES FROM WONDERLAND. _Tr._ Mrs. H. B. Dole. [1890].
=BAYLE, PIERRE.= _b._ 1647, _d._ 1706. =French philosopher and
critic.=
AN HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL DICTIONARY, [1696] by Monsieur Bayle.
Translated with corrections ... by the Author. 4 v. 1710.
This work exerted a great influence over the literature and
philosophy of Europe before the French Revolution.
=BEAUMARCHAIS, PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE.= _b._ 1732, _d._ 1799.
=French dramatist.=
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE; or, THE USELESS PRECAUTION: a comedy in four
acts [in prose] with songs, etc. [1775]. [_Tr._ by E. Griffith] 1776.
THE FOLLIES OF A DAY; or THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO. (1784.) A comedy [in
five acts and in prose]. _Tr._ by T. Holcroft, 1785.
THE SCHOOL FOR RAKES: a comedy [in five acts and in prose]. _Tr._ by
E. Griffiths. 1769.
=BEDE. SURNAMED 'THE VENERABLE'.= _b._ 673, _d._ 735. =English monk
and ecclesiastical writer.=
BEDE'S HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLANDE. _Tr._ by Thomas Stapleton.
1565.
[_King Alfred Tr. this work into Anglo-Saxon._]
COMPLETE WORKS OF BEDE. _Tr._ by J. A. Giles, 12 v. 1843-44. v.
1: Letters, etc. v. 2-3, Historia Ecclesiastica. v. 4, Historical
Tracts. v. 5, Homilies. v. 6, Scientific Tracts. v. 7-12,
Commentaries on Scriptures.
=BENYOVSZKY, MAURICE A.= _b._ 1741, _d._ 1786. =Hungarian writer.=
MEMOIRS AND TRAVELS.... 2 v. _Tr._ [W. Nicholson] 1789.
=BEOWULF.=
_A semi-fabulous hero of Denmark, who forms the subject of a
celebrated epic poem in West Saxon supposed to have been written
in the ninth century._
THE POEM OF BEOWULF. _Tr._ by J. M. Kemble, 1837.
The MS. is in the Cottonian Library in the British Museum
(Codex Vitellius, A. xv.). Grímr Jónsson Thorkelin, an
Icelandic scholar, had two copies made of it in 1815. Through
this edition the poem became known in England, Germany and
Denmark, but Sharon Turner gave the first account of it in
1805. In 1833 (2nd edition, 1835) J. M. Kemble issued a
complete edition of the text of Beowulf, and in 1837 translated
the whole of it into English.
=BERANGER, PIERRE JEAN DE.= _b._ 1780, _d._ 1857. French lyric poet.
ONE HUNDRED SONGS, with translations by W. Young, 1847.
SONGS OF BERANGER, _translated_ by the author of the 'Exile of
Idria', 1837.
=BERGERAC, SAVINIEN CYRANO DE.= _b._ 1620, _d._ 1655. =French
litterateur and dramatic author.=
SATYRICAL CHARACTERS AND HANDSOME DESCRIPTIONS IN LETTERS. _Tr._ from
the French, by a Person of Honour. 1658.
HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN THE SUN AND MOON, done into English by Tho.,
St. Serf, Gent. 1659.
COMICAL HISTORY OF THE STATES AND EMPIRES OF THE WORLD OF THE MOON
AND SUN; newly Englished by A. Lovell, 1687. 1st _Tr._ 1638.
VOYAGE TO THE MOON WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE SOLAR WORLD, done from
the French by S. Derrick. 1753.
To this philosophical romance on the system of Descartes, Swift
is supposed to have been greatly indebted: the journey to the
moon being the origin of Swift's Brobdignag, and that to the
sun suggesting the voyage to Laputa.
=BERGSOL, WILHELM GORGEN.= _b._ 1835. =Danish author.=
BRIDE OF ROERVIG. _Tr._ N. Francis, 1877.
=BERNARD, CHARLES DE.= _Pseud._ (Charles Bernard D. de La Villette).
_b._ 1805, _d._ 1850. =French novelist.=
LION'S SKIN AND THE LOVER HUNT. _Tr._ 1853.
LOVER AND THE HUSBAND. _Tr._ 1841.
=BERNI, FRANCESCO.= _b._ 1610, _d._ 1673. =Italian orator, poet, and
dramatic author.=
THE ORLANDO INNAMORATO. _Tr._ W. S. Rose, 1823.
THE ENCHANTED LAKE OF THE FAIRY MORGANA, from O. I. _Tr._ 1806.
=BEYLE, MARIE-HENRI.= [=H. B. DE STENDHAL.= =L. A. C. BOMBET.=] _b._
1783, _d._ 1842. =Versatile French litterateur.=
THE CHARTREUSE OF PARMA (1839). _Tr._ 1895.
RED AND BLACK: a story of provincial France. (Le Rouge et le Noire
1830). _Tr._ 1898.
=BÈZE, THEODORE.= _b._ 1519, _d._ 1605. =French Calvinistic
theologian and scholar=.
A BOOKE OF CHRISTIAN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Wherein are set forth the
cheefe points of the Christian Religion. _Tr._ by A. Golding, 1574.
A BRIEFE AND PITHIE [_sic_] SUMME OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, MADE IN
FORME OF A CONFESSION.... _Tr._ by R(obert) F(yll), 1565.
A BRIEFE DECLARATION OF THE CHIEFE POYNTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
_Tr._ 1556.
A DISCOURSE by M. T. DE BEZA, CONTAINING THE LIFE AND DEATH OF M.
JOHN CALVIN, ... _Tr._ by I. S., [1570].
AN ORATION MADE BY MASTER T. DE BEZE.... ACCOMPANIED WITH XI OTHER
MINISTERS AND XX DEPUTIES OF THE REFOURMED CHURCHES OF THE REALM OF
FRAUNCE.... 1562.
PROPOSITIONS AND PRINCIPLES OF DEVINITIE.... _Tr._ by John Penry,
1591.
THE TREASURE OF TRUETH.... _Tr._ by J. Stockwood. Whereunto are
added, These Godly Treatyses, etc.... 1576.
[_Note._ Herbert in his edition of Ames's 'Typographical
Antiquities' notices a former edition entitled 'Treatise of
Truth'. _Tr._ by Whittingham, Geneva, about 1556.]
B. was profoundly versed in ancient literature, and contributed
most to the great movement of the renaissance.
=BIBLE, THE.=
The first English translation was made by John Wycliffe in 1383.
The first Protestant translation of the whole Bible is considered as
the joint production of Tyndale and Coverdale.
E.g. BIBLIA. The Bible, that is, the holy Testament of the Olde and
Newe Testament, faithfully and truly translated out of the Douche and
Latyn into English, 1535.
[Ordered by Henry VIII to be laid in the choir of every church
'for every man that will to look and read therein'.]
BIBLE. [MATTHEW]. The Byble, which is all the holy Scripture: in
which are contayned the Olde and Newe Testament truely and purely
translated into Englyssh by Thomas Matthew, 1537.
BIBLE. [THE BISHOP'S]. The Holie Bible conteyning the Olde Testament
and the newe. 1568.
BIBLE. [AUTHORISED VERSION]. The holy Bible, conteyning the old
Testament and the new: newly translated out of the originall Tongues,
and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by
his maiesties speciall commandment. 1611.
'If we were to take our greatest authors and read them through,
pencil in hand; if we were to mark those words and images and
turns of expression which we feel to be derived consciously or
unconsciously from the English version of the Hebrew Bible, we
should be amazed to find how much of purely literary strength
and dignity that one book has added to our tongue'.--T. G.
Tucker.
A TABULAR VIEW OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE.
_The Bible before the invention of Printing._
I. A.D. 597-1382--The Middle Ages: Metrical Paraphrases, Glosses,
and Translations from the Latin Vulgate and from the so-called 'Old
Latin'.
II. A.D. 1382--The Wycliffe-Hereford Bible.
A.D. 1388--A Revision of the above Bible, by Purvey and Others.
_The Printed Bible of the Sixteenth Century._
III. A.D. 1525--Tyndale New Testament.
A.D. 1530--Tyndales (part of the) Old Testament.
The last two are from the Original Greek and Hebrew.
A.D. 1535 and 1537 Coverdale's Bible (the first complete Bible in
English) [_Not_ from the Greek and Hebrew.]
A.D. 1537--Matthew's Bible [mainly from a compilation from Tyndale
and Coverdale.]
A.D. 1539--Taverner's Bible [A private revision of Matthew's, and
comparatively unimportant.]
A.D. 1539 [The first edition of the Great Bible; the second edition
of which (with Cranmer's Preface) is dated 1540.]
A.D. 1560--The Genevan Bible.
A.D. 1568--The Bishop's Bible.
A.D. 1582--The Rheims New Testament (from the Vulgate).
_The Seventeenth Century._
IV. A.D. 1610--The Douai Old Testament (from the Vulgate).
A.D. 1611--The Authorised Version.
_The Nineteenth Century._
V. A.D. 1881--The Revised New Testament.
A.D. 1885--The Revised Old Testament.
A.D. 1895--The Apocrypha.
From 'The Evolution of the English Bible', by H. W. Hoare.
=BIDPAI.= _See_ =PILPAY.=
=BION.= B.C. =Greek poet.= _See_ =Anacreon.=
=BJÖRNSON, B.= _b._ 1832. =Norwegian author.=
ARNE. _Tr._ A. Plesner and S. Rugeley-Powers. 1866.
BRIDAL MARCH, etc. _Tr._ R. B. Anderson, 1882.
CAPTAIN MANSANA. _Tr._ R. B. Anderson, 1882.
FISHER-MAIDEN. _Tr._ M. E. Niles, 1869.
HAPPY BOY. _Tr._ H. R. G., 1870.
HERITAGE OF THE KURTS. _Tr._ C. Fairfax, 1892.
LIFE BY THE FELLS AND FIORDS. _Tr._ 1879.
LOVE AND LIFE IN NORWAY. _Tr._ Hon. A. Bethell and A. Plesner. [1870].
MAGNHILD. _Tr._ R. B. Anderson, 1883.
NEWLY MARRIED COUPLE. _Tr._ S. and E. Hjerleid, 1870.
NORSE TALES. _Tr._ R. B. Anderson, 1883.
OVIND. _Tr._ E. Hjerleid, 1869.
THE RAILROAD AND THE CHURCHYARD, etc. _Tr._ C. Larsen, 1870.
SIGURD SLEMBE. _Tr._ W. M. Payne, 1888.
=BLANCHARDIN AND EGLANTINE.=
THE HISTORYE OF KYNGE BLANCHARDYN AND QUEEN EGLANTYNE. Impr. by Wm.
Caxton, 1485. _Ed._ by Dr. Leon Kellner, E.E.T.S., 1889.
=BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI.= _b._ 1313, _d._ 1375. =The most famous of the
Italian novelists.=
DECAMERON [1358]. The modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and
Conversation. Framed in ten dayes, of an hundred curious pieces by
seven Honourable Ladies and three Noble Gentlemen. Preserved to
posterity by the renowned J. B.... and now _Tr._ in English, 1625.
[Written in 1348-58. First printed in 1470. Vol. 1 only. The Edition
of this translation, published in 1620, was anonymous].
THE BOKE CALLED DE JOHN BOCHAS DESCRIUINGE THE FALLE OF PRINCIS,
PRINCESSIS AND OTHER NOBLES, translated into Englissh, by John
Lydgate, etc., 1494.
NOVELS AND TALES. _Tr._ 1684.
Boccaccio directly borrowed his 'Teseide' from Statius'
'Thebaid', A.D. 70. Introduced the octave stanza. The
'Knight's Tale' and 'Troilus and Cressida' of Chaucer are from
the 'Teseide' of B., as also is Shakespeare's 'Troilus and
Cressida' from the 'Filostrato.' 'All's Well that Ends Well' is
also from B. Chaucer borrowed very freely from him.
The 'Decameron' suggested to Chaucer his plan for the
'Canterbury Tales', and also some of the 'Tales' themselves,
and its influence on the development of the English novel was
enormous.
'The "Decameron" consists of a hundred stories supposed to
be related in ten consecutive days, by a party of ten ladies
and gentlemen, who had retreated to a charming asylum from
plague-stricken Florence in the year 1348. Some of the stories
are tragedies, some are comic, some idylls. B. took most of his
plots from the current fiction of his time, from the popular
French _fabliaux_, from Oriental and classical sources, from
actual history, and from tradition'.
For other copyings from B. it may be enough to mention
Lydgate's 'Falls of Princes' and the 'Mirror for Magistrates'
(1559) based on the 'De Casibus Illustrium Virorum' of the
Italian.
=BODIN, JEAN.= _b._ 1530, _d._ 1596. =French representative and
political writer.=
THE SIX BOOKES OF A COMMONWEALE, OUT OF THE FRENCH AND LATINE COPIES.
Done into English by Richard Knolles, 1606.
This work was once read at our universities.
=BOETHIUS.= _b._ 470, _d._ 525. =Roman philosopher and statesman.=
THE BOKE OF CONSOLACION OF PHILOSOPHIE. _Tr._ by Geoffrey Chaucer.
[1490]. Printed by Caxton.
[This work was first translated by King Alfred into Anglo-Saxon.]
'Boethius stood to the Dark Ages for the exemplar of the
philosopher. His place in mediaeval reading was very high, and
may be gauged from the fact that in England Alfred the Great
translated his "Consolations" into Anglo-Saxon. To Chaucer,
as to all the mediaeval world, "Boece" was part of the staple
library'.
=BOIARDO, MATTIO MARIA.= _b._ 1434, _d._ 1494. =Italian poet.=
ORLANDO INNAMORATO. [Charlemagne Romances]. The three first Bookes
done into English Heroical Verse (1480). _Tr._ by R(obert) T(ofte).
1598.
Milton was influenced by B. in his 'Paradise Regained'.
'Orlando Innamorato' was left unfinished by B., and was
afterwards finished by Ariosto under the title of 'Orlando
Furioso'.
=BOILEAU= (_or_, =BOILEAU DESPRÉAUX=) =NICOLAS= _b._ 1636, _d._ 1711.
=French poet and satirist.=
THE ART OF POETRY (1674). [In verse.] _Tr._ 1683.
A DISCOURSE OF SATIRES ARRAIGNING PERSONS BY NAME. _Tr._ 1730.
LUTRIN. A mock heroic poem. _Tr._ by N. O. 1682.
POSTHUMOUS WORKS. _Tr._ 1713.
A SATIRE [Translation of the Eighth Satire of B. on man]. 1801.
SATIRES. _Tr._ 1808.
THE WORKS OF MONSIEUR BOILEAU MADE ENGLISH BY SEVERAL HANDS. To which
is prefixed his life by Mr. Des Maizeaux. (_Tr._ by J. Ozell) and
some account of this translation by N. Rowe. 1712-13.
Roscommon's 'Essay on Translated Verse' is derived from
Boileau's French 'Art de Poetique'. One of the 'correct'
school. Pope and Addison were largely influenced by B. The
former's 'Essay on Criticism' is inspired by him. Boileau
himself was influenced by the 'De Arte Poetica' of Horace.
=BONNOT DE CONDILLAC (ÉTIENNE).= _See_ =Condillac.=
=BOOK OF THE DEAD. (PER-EM-HRU.)=
'A collection of prayers and exorcisms composed at various
times for the benefit of the pilgrim-soul in his journeys
through Amente (the Egyptian Hades)'.
_See_ Birch, Dr. Egypt's Place in Universal History. Vol. v. 1867.
[Based on Lepsius' imperfect Turin Text. 1842.]
_See also Article_ in Budge, E. A. Wallis. Dwellers on the Nile
(chapter 9) 1885.
This work has been printed in full from MSS. in the British
Museum. _Ed_. by E. A. W. Budge, with facsimiles _trs_. by
Budge.
=BOSSUET, JACQUES BENIGNE.= _b._ 1612, _d._ 1704. =French divine
and eminent pulpit orator.=
A DISCOURSE ON THE HISTORY OF THE WHOLE WORLD ... EXPLICATING THE
CONTINUANCE OF RELIGION WITH THE CHANGES OF STATES AND EMPIRES,
FROM THE CREATION TILL THE REIGN OF CHARLES THE GREAT. Faithfully
Englished (1679). 1686.
AN EXPOSITION OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE CATHOLIQUE CHURCH, IN THE POINTS
OF CONTROVERSIE WITH THOSE OF THE PRETENDED REFORMATION. _Tr_. by W.
M.(ontague). 1672.
HISTORY OF FRANCE, FROM PHARAMOND TO CHARLES IX. _Tr_. 1762.
THE HISTORY OF THE VARIATIONS OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCHES.... _Tr_. 2
v. 1742.
QUAKERISM A-LA-MODE: or HISTORY OF QUIETISM.... _Tr_. 1698.
VIEW OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY. _Tr_. by James Elphinston, 1778.
=BOTTA, CARLO=. b. 1766, d. 1837. =Italian poet and historian.=
HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA. _Tr_. G. A. Otis. 3 v. 1820-21.
HISTORY OF ITALY DURING THE CONSULATE AND EMPIRE OF NAPOLEON
BUONAPARTE. 2 v. _Tr_. 1828.
=BOURDEILLES (PIERRE DE) SEIGNEUR DE BRANTÔME.= _See_ =Brantôme.=
=BOURGET, PAUL C. J.= _b._ 1852. =French novelist.=
LAND OF PROMISE. _Tr_. 1895.
A LOVE CRIME. _Tr_. [1887].
A CRUEL ENIGMA. _Tr_. J. Cray, 1887.
A TRAGIC IDYLL. _Tr_. 1896.
A LIVING LIE. _Tr_. J. de Villiers, 1896.
OUTRE-MER. Impressions of America. _Tr_. 1895.
A SAINT AND OTHERS. _Tr_. J. Gray, 1892.
=BRANDES, GEORGE MAURICE COHEN.= _b._ 1842. =One of the most
brilliant of modern writers.=
EMINENT AUTHORS OF THE 19TH CENTURY. _Tr_. by R. B. Anderson, 1886.
IMPRESSIONS OF RUSSIA. _Tr_. by S. C. Eastman, 1889.
LORD BEACONSFIELD. A Study.... Authorised _translation_ by Mrs. G.
Sturge, 1880.
MAIN CURRENTS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE. 6 v. _Tr_. 1890, etc.
SHAKESPEARE: A critical study. _Tr_. by Wm. Archer, M. Morison and D.
White, 1898.
His thorough criticism has given rise to what may be called a
new school of criticism in the North of Europe.
=BRANDT, SEBASTIAN.= _b._ 1458, _d._ 1521. =German satirist.=
SHYP OF FOLYS OF THE WORLDE (Narrenschiff, 1494). _Tr_. out of Laten,
French and Doche into the Englysshe Tonge. By Alexander B. Preste
[Barclay]. 1509.
'"The Narrenschiff" or "Ship of Fools" was imitated in the
sixteenth century by the English Barclay, and was the parent of
a considerable satirical progeny during the century.'
=BRANTÔME, PIERRE DE BOURDEILLES, SEIGNEUR DE.= _b._ 1540, _d._ 1614.
=French historian and litterateur.=
SPANISH RHODOMONTADES, AS ALSO ... PROOFS OF A TRUE HEROISM. _Tr._ M.
Ozell, 1741.
=BREMER, FREDERIKA.= _b._ 1801, _d._ 1865. =Swedish novelist.=
BROTHERS AND SISTERS: a tale of Domestic Life. _Tr._ 1848.
THE H-- FAMILY, ETC. (1831.) _Tr._ 1844.
THE NEIGHBOURS, ETC. (1837.) _Tr._ 1842.
THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTERS. _Tr._ 1843.
=BRENTANO, CLEMENS.= _b._ 1778, _d._ 1842. =German novelist and poet.=
HONOR ... _Tr._ 1847.
THE WONDROUS TALE OF COCKY, CLUCKY, AND CACKLE. _Tr._ C. W.
Heckethorn. [1889].
FAIRY TALES FROM B. _Tr._ K. F. Kroeker. [1884].
=BRUNETIÈRE, FERDINAND.= _b._ 1849. =French critic.=
MANUAL OF THE HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE. _Tr._ R. Derechef, 1898.
=BRUNO, GIORDANO.= _b._ 1548, _d._ 1600. =Eminent Italian
philosopher.=
THE EXPULSION OF THE TRIUMPHANT BEAST. (Spaccio della Bestia
Trionfante.) _Tr._ by Wm. Morehead, 1713.
=BUFFON, GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE.= _b._ 1707, _d._ 1788.
=French naturalist and philosopher.=
NATURAL HISTORY, GENERAL AND PARTICULAR, illustrated, and with
occasional notes and observations by the Translator William Smellie.
(1749-67) 1781. (The Edition of 1812 is the only complete English
Translation.)
An extraordinary impulse was given by Buffon to the study of
natural history in his own country, and his work had a great
influence upon English naturalists.
=BURGER, GOTTFRIED AUGUST.= _b._ 1747, _d._ 1794. =German poet.=
THE CHASE, AND WILLIAM AND HELEN: two ballads from the German of G.
A. B. [By Sir W. Scott.] 1796.
LEONORA (with the Text). _Tr._ by W. R. Spencer, 1796.
SPECIMENS OF GERMAN LYRICS: consisting of translations from ...
Burger, 1823.
_B. is the reputed author of 'Baron Munchausen.'_
'=CABALLERO, FERNAN='. _b._ 1800, _d._ 1876. =Spanish statesman and
journalist.=
SEA GULL. _Tr._ A. Bethell, 1867.
ELIA; or SPAIN FIFTY YEARS AGO. _Tr._ 1868.
AIR BUILT CASTLES, etc. _Tr._ 1887.
BIRD OF TRUTH. _Tr._ 1881.
SILENCE IN LIFE, AND FORGIVENESS IN DEATH. _Tr._ J. J. Kelly, 1883.
CASTLE AND THE COTTAGE IN SPAIN. _Tr._ Lady Wallace. 2 v. 1861.
THE ALVAREDA FAMILY. _Tr._ Viscount Pollington, 1872.
=CAEDMON.= _d._ 680. ='The father of English song'=.
DREAM OF THE HOLY ROOD. [With _Trs._ in parallel columns.] _Ed._ by
J. M. Kemble. In Codex Vercellensis. _Aelfric Soc. 1843-56._
HYMN IN PRAISE OF THE CREATOR. _Ed._ Napier, 'mod. lang. notes', 1889.
POETICAL PARAPHRASE OF PARTS OF SCRIPTURE. _Ed._ Thorpe (with Eng.
_tr._), 1832.
JUDITH. _Ed._ Prf. A. S. Cook. _Tr._ Lib. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. 1888.
RUTHWELL CROSS. _Ed._ H. Sweet. In the Oldest Eng. Texts. 1885.
HOLY ROOD, DREAM OF THE. _Ed._ J. M. Kemble, with _tr._ _In_ Cod.
Vercell. 1843-56.
METRICAL PARAPHRASE OF SCRIPTURE. _Tr._ by B. Thorpe, 1832.
=CÆSAR, CAIUS JULIUS.= _b._ 100, _d._ 44 B.C. =Roman general,
statesman and historian.=
COMMENTARIES, NEWLY TRANSLATYD OWTE OF LATIN IN TO ENGLYSHE AS MUCH
AS CONCERNED THYS REALME OF ENGLAND SUMTYME CALLYD BRYTAYNE. By J.
Tiptoft, 1530.
THE EYGHT BOOKES OF CAIUS JULIUS CÆSAR, CONTEYNING HIS MARTIALL
EXPLOYTES IN THE REALME OF GALLIA AND THE COUNTRIES BORDERING UPON
THE SAME. _Tr._ by A. Goldinge. [With an Epistle Dedicatory] ... 1565.
=CALDERON, DE LA BARCA, PEDRO.= _b._ 1600, _d._ 1681. =Spanish
dramatist.=
DRAMAS OF CALDERON: Tragic, Comic, and Legendary.... _Tr._ by D. F.
McCarthy, 2 v. 1853.
THE FAIRY LADY ... KEEP YOUR OWN SECRET. _Tr._ by Lord Holland, 1807.
FORTUNE MENDS: a comedy. _Tr._ by F. Holcroft, 1805.
JUSTINIA: a play. _Tr._ by F. Holcroft, 1805.
SIX DRAMAS OF CALDERON. _Tr._ by E. Fitzgerald, 1853.
Calderon was the great religious dramatist of Spain. His
numerous plays are of a lofty theological and idealistic order,
and are inspired by an intense religious fervour.
=CALIDAS.= _See_ =Kalidasa.=
=CALILAH I DIMNAH.=
DONI. The morall philosophie of Doni, englished out of Italian by Sir
Tho. North, 1570.
[This celebrated fable book is best known in Europe as
'Pilpay's Fables'; _see also under Indian_.]
=CALPRENÈDE, G. DE COSTES DE LA.= _See_ =Costes. Gautier de.=
=CALVIN, JOHN.= _b._ 1509, _d._ 1533. =The greatest of the Protestant
reformers.=
COMMENTARIES OF J. C. UPON THE FIRST EPISTLE OF SAINT JHON AND UPON
THE EPISTLE OF JUDE. [1560.]
COMMENTARY OF JOHN CALVINE UPON THE PROPHET DANIELL. _Tr._ by A. G.
i.e. A. Golding, 1570.
THE EPISTLE OF JHON CALVYNE (whether it be lawfull for a chrysten man
to communicate or be partaker of the masse of the Papystes, etc.)
[1549].
A FAYTHFUL AND MOSTE GODLY TREATYSE CONCERNYNGE THE MOST SACRED
SACRAMENT OF THE BLESSED BODY AND BLOUDE OF OUR SAVIOUR CHRIST,
compiled by J. Calvine ... translated into Englisshe by a faythful
brother.... Wher unto is added the order that the Church and
congregatiõ of Christe in Denmarke doth use. (Set forth by N.
Coverdale). 1550.
THE INSTITUTION OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION (Christianæ Religionis
Institutio, 1536), translated according to the Author's last Edition
(by Thomas Norton), 1561.
THE MYNDE OF M. JHON CALVYNE; what a faithful man, whiche is
instructe in Worde of God, ought to do, dwellinge amongest the
Papistes. (_Tr._ by R. G.), 1548.
OF THE LIFE OR CONVERSATION OF A CHRISTEN MAN; a right godly
treatise, wyrtten [sic] in the latyn tonge by Maister J. Calvyne.
_Tr._ by T. Brooke, etc. [1549].
A VERY PROFITABLE TREATISE ... DECLARYNGE WHAT GREAT PROFIT MIGHT
COME TO AL CHRISTENDOME, YF THERE WERE A REGESTER MADE. _Tr._ by S.
Wythers [1561.]
Influence tremendous, but indefinable. Has affected all
religious writers, directly or indirectly.
=CAMOENS, LUIZ DE.= _b._ 1524, _d._ 1558. =Portuguese poet.=
LUSIADS, OR PORTUGALLS HISTORICALL POEM. _Tr._ by Richard Fanshaw,
1655.
=CAMPE, JOACHIM H.= _See_ =Kampe, J. H.=
=CANTÙ, CESARE.= _b._ 1805, _d._ 1895. =Italian historian.=
LORD BYRON AND HIS WORKS. _Tr._ [1883].
THE REFORMATION IN EUROPE. _Tr._ F. Prandi. Vol. 1. 1847.
=CARDUCCI, GIOSUE.= _b._ 1836, _d._ 1907. Italian poet.
POEMS. _Tr._ F. Sewall, 1892.
=CARLEN, B. F.= _b._ 1807, _d._ 1892. =Swedish novel writer.=
THE BROTHER'S BET. _Tr._ 1867.
THE GUARDIAN. _Tr._ 1865.
=CARLOVINGIAN ROMANCES.=
_See under_:
SIR FERUMBRAS, FOUR SONS OF AYMON. HUON OF BORDEAUX, CHARLES THE
GREAT, etc.
=CAROVÉ, F. W.= _b._ 1789, _d._ 1852. =German critic.=
STORY WITHOUT AN END. _Tr._ S. Austen, 1834.
STORY OF GOTTFRIED AND BEATA. _Tr._ A. Moline, 1844.
CHILD AND THE HERMIT. _Tr._ [1840?].
=CASTIGLIONE, BALDASSARE.=. _b._ 1487, _d._ 1529. =Italian writer.=
CORTIGIANO. THE BOOK OF THE COURTIER, (1518). Done into English by
Sir T. Hoby, 1561.
Influenced English court ideals.
=CATO, DIONYSIUS.= 4th century. =Latin moralist.=
Here begynneth the prologue or prohemye of the book called Caton, etc.
Here fynysshed this present book, whiche is called Cathon translated
oute of Frensshe in to Englysshe by W. Caxton. 1483.
=CATULLUS, CAIUS VALERIUS.= _b._ 84, _d._ 54 B.C. =Latin poet.=
THE ADVENTURES OF CATULLUS, AND HISTORY OF HIS AMOURS WITH LESBIA.
Intermixt with translations of his choicest poems. By several hands.
1707.
The most passionate and lyrical of all the Latin poets.
Catullus was very largely influenced by Sappho's 'Odes of
Love', 610 B.C. Catullus and Horace combined form type for
English odes, such as Ben Jonson wrote, addressed to 'Lesbia',
'Celia', 'Delia', etc.
=CAXTON, WM.= _b._ 1422, _d._ 1491. =Scholar and printer.=
THE CRONICLES OF ENGLOND. Westmynstre, 10 June 1480. The Discripcion
of Britayne, Westmynstre, 18 August, 1480.
[This work is sometimes called the 'Chronicle of St. Alban's',
and sometimes 'Caxton's Chronicle', also 'Fructus Temporum'.]
Mentioned here as England's first printer. Translated and
printed many books, but mostly of a popular nature.
=CELESTINA.=
THE SPANISH BAWD REPRESENTED BY CELESTINA; OR THE TRAGICK COMEDY OF
CALISTO AND MELIBEA. _Tr._ [by James Mabbe] 1631.
CELESTINA, THE FAIR ... DAUGHTER TO THE KING OF THESSALIE. Done out
of French into English [by W. Barley?]. 1596.
=CELLINI, BENVENUTO.= b. 1500, d. 1571. =Italian artist.=
THE LIFE OF B. C.... AND THE HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIME. Written by
himself (1558) and ... _translated_ by T. Nugent. 1771.
=CELTIC, ETC., ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.=
CAMPBELL, J. F. _Ed. and Tr._ POPULAR TALES OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS. [4
v. 1860-62.] 1890-91.
[Orally collected, with _trs._ One of the most important
collections of folk-tales in the whole literature of folk-lore,
ranking with Grimm's German collections.]
CROKER, T. CROFTON. _Ed._ FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF IRELAND.
1825.
[Still the best collection for the south of Ireland.]
CURTIN, JEREM. _Tr._ MYTHS AND FOLKLORE OF IRELAND. 1890.
[Orally collected from Gaelic lips.]
JOYCE, P. W. _Tr._ OLD CELTIC ROMANCES [_Tr._ from Gaelic MSS.] 1879.
LAING, D. SELECT REMAINS OF THE ANCIENT POPULAR POETRY OF SCOTLAND.
1822.
LAING, D. EARLY SCOTTISH METRICAL TALES. 1826.
NASH, D. W. TALIESIN: _trs._ of Remains of Welsh Bards. 1857.
MENZIES, LOUISA. _Tr._ LEGENDARY TALES OF ANCIENT BRITONS. 1864.
[_Trs._ from the chronicles.]
O'GRADY, STANDISH H. _Ed._ and _Tr._ SILVA GADELICA. 2 v. 1892.
[A collection of tales in Irish, with English trs.]
RHYS, JNO. _and_ J. G. EVANS. OLD WELSH TEXTS. v. 1-4, 1887.
1. 'Red Book of Hergest': Mabinogion, 1887.
2. 'Black Book of Carmarthen', 1888.
3. 'Red Book of Hergest': II. Y Llyvyr Coch o Hergest, 1889.
4. 'Book of Llan Dâv', 1893.
5. 'Book of Aneurin' [Anc. Welsh Poetry, 12th-13th cent.]
SKENE, W. F. _Ed._ THE FOUR ANCIENT BOOKS OF WALES. 2 v. 1868.
[Contains the Cymric Poems attributed to the bards of the 6th
cent.]
WAIFS AND STRAYS OF CELTIC TRADITION. 1889.
V. 1. 'Craignish Tales', collected by J. MacDougall, with
notes, 1889.
V. 2. 'Folk and Hero Tales', _ed._ and _tr._ by D. McInnes,
1890.
V. 3. 'Folk and Hero Tales', _ed._ by J. MacDougall [collected
from a roadman, 1891].
V. 4. 'The Friars', collected by J. G. Campbell, 1891.
=CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE.= _b._ 1547, _d._ 1616. =Spanish
novelist.=
DON QUIXOTE (1605). _Tr._ by Thomas Shelton, 1612-20.
A COLLECTION OF SELECT NOVELS, written originally in Castilian by Don
M. C. S. made English by H. Bridges, 1728.
Butler's 'Hudibras' is a palpable metrical imitation of 'Don
Quixote'.
Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Knight of the Burning Pestle' is a
still closer imitation.
The tremendous influence of 'Don Quixote' upon English
literature is difficult to define. He was imitated by the
Elizabethans, e.g. Middleton's 'Spanish Gipsy' and Fletcher's
'Fair Maid of the Inn' are both taken from his 'Novellas
Exemplares'.
For 'Exemplary Novels,' _see also under Anthologies._ Croxall, S.
Select Collection of Novels. _Tr._ 1720-22.
=CHAMISSO, A. VON.= _b._ 1781, _d._ 1838. =French poet and
naturalist.=
THE SHADOWLESS MAN: or THE WONDERFUL HISTORY OF PETER SCHLEMIHL.
[1845.]
=CHANSONS DE GESTES,= 12th and 13th centuries.
A series of long narrative poems dealing with warfare and adventure.
The principal poems of the Carlovingian Cycle are The Song of Roland,
Ogier le Danois, Renaud de Montauban, Raoul de Cambrai, Huon de
Bordeaux, Les Saisnes, Doon de Mayence, Gerard de Viane and Hugues
Capet.
These were of vast importance in the metrical paraphrases that
occupied the chief period of English Literature in the Middle
Ages, had a very great influence upon the Italian romancers,
affected English literature through Spenser and others, and
influenced more particularly the Elizabethan period.
=CHARLEMAGNE ROMANCES.=
BOIARDO, MATTIO M. ORLANDO INNAMORATO. The three first Bookes done
into English Heroical Verse (1480). _Tr._ by R(obert) T(ofte). 1598.
CAXTON, WILLIAM. THE LYF OF THE NOBLE AND CRYSTEN PRINCE CHARLES THE
GRETE, _translated_ by Wm. Caxton. 1485.
(Reissued by the Early English Text Society, 1880-1.)
CAXTON, WILLIAM. THE RIGHT PLEASANT AND GOODLY HISTORY OF THE FOUR
SONNES OF AYMON. 1489.
(Reissued by the Early English Text Society, 1884-5.)
BOURCHIER, SIR JOHN, _Lord Berners_. THE BOKE OF DUKE HUON OF
BURDEUX. 1534.
(Also 1601, and Early English Text Society, 1882-7. Abridged
edition by Robert Steele, 1895. Also Valentine and Orson, newly
corrected and amended, 1637. Original French edition, Lyons,
1489.)
=CHARRON, PIERRE.= _b._ 1541, _d._ 1603. =French advocate,
philosopher, and author.=
OF WISDOME, THREE BOOKES. _Tr._ S. Lennard. [1615?].
ON WISDOM. _Tr._ Geo. Stanhope, 1697.
=CHATEAUBRIAND, FRANÇOIS RENÉ, VICOMTE DE=. _b._ 1768, _d._ 1848.
=French writer.=
ATALA, or THE LOVE AND CONSTANCY OF TWO SAVAGES IN THE DESERT.
_Translated_ from the French of F. A. C., by C. Bingham. 1802.
RENÉ: a tale. _Tr._ 1813.
TRAVELS IN GREECE, PALESTINE, EGYPT AND BARBARY, 1806-7. _Tr._ by F.
Shobert, 1811.
=CHERBULIEZ, CHARLES VICTOR.= _b._ 1826, =French novelist.=
BLUE-EYED META HOLDENIS, AND A STROKE OF DIPLOMACY. _Tr._ 1881.
LOW-BORN LOVER'S REVENGE. _Tr._ 1881.
MISS ROVEL. _Tr._ 1875.
A PHIDIAN HORSE. _Tr._ E. H. B. Roberts, 1893.
TRIALS OF JETTA MALAUBRET. _Tr._ 1886.
TUTOR'S SECRET. _Tr._ [P. Derecheff] 1893.
WISH OF HIS LIFE. 2 v. _Tr._ 1878.
WITH FORTUNE MADE. _Tr._ M. L. Simkins, 1896.
=CHESTER MYSTERIES.= _Cir._ 1268.
Ed. Thomas Wright, Shakespeare Soc., 1843-47. T. H. Markland,
Roxburghe Club, 1818 (two plays).
=CHEVELERE ASSIGNE.= _Ed._ Utterson, Roxburghe Club, 1820, and Lord
Aldenham, E.E.T.S., Ex. Ser. vi.
A prose version of the tale of the Knight of the Swan will be
found in Thoms. See also p. 81.
=CHINESE ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.=
=Poetical. Fairy Tales. Folk-Tales and Traditional Literature.=
DAVIS, SIR JOHN F. _Tr._ CHINESE NOVELS translated from the
Originals. 1822.
DOUGLAS, ROB. K. _Tr._ CHINESE STORIES. 1892.
FIELDE, ADELE W. _Tr._ CHINESE NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENTS. 1893.
GILES, H. A. _Tr._ GEMS OF CHINESE LITERATURE. 1884.
GILES, H. A. STRANGE STORIES FROM A CHINESE STUDIO. 2 v. 1880.
[164 tales.]
STENT, G. C. Tr. THE JADE CHAPLET, in 24 beads, 1874.
[Chinese songs, ballads, etc.]
=CHRYSOSTOM, ST. JOHN.= _b._ 347, _d._ 407. =Eminent Greek father.=
A COMPANION FOR THE SINCERE PENITENT.... _Tr._ by J. Veneer, 1728.
THE GOLDEN BOOK OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM CONCERNING THE EDUCATION OF
CHILDREN. _Tr._ by J. E(velyn). 1659.
HIS SIX BOOKS CONCERNING THE PRIESTHOOD. _Tr._ by H. Hollier. [1728.]
AN HOMILIE OF SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM UPON THE SAYINGS OF ST. PAUL....
[Part of] THE FIFT HOMELIE AGAYNST THE JEWS. _Tr._ by T. Chaloner,
1544. [1574.]
A SERMON OF SAINT CHRYSOSTOME WHERIN ... HE WONDERFULLY PROVETH THAT
NO MAN IS HURTED BUT OF HYM SELFE. _Tr._ by T. Supsette, 1542.
=CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS.= _b._ 106, _d._ 43 B.C. =Roman orator,
statesman and philosopher. Often called Tully by English writers.=
THE BOKE OF TULLE OF OLDE AGE. [_Tr._ into English by W. Worcester]
etc. TULLIUS DE AMICICIA. _Tr._ by [John Tiptoft], Earl of Worcester.
THE ARGUMENT OF THE DECLAMACYON ... [a Tr. by J. Tiptoft of two
Orations, etc. The whole edited by Wm. Caxton. 1481.]
THE BOKE OF FRIENDSHIP, _see the above_, Tullius de Amicicia.
THE CHOSEN ELOQUENT ORATIONS FOR THE POET ARCHAIS, selected from his
Orations and now first published in English, 1571.
DE ORATORE. _Tr._ by G. P(arry), 1723.
DE REPUBLICA. Scipio's Dream, or the Statesman's Extasie. Tending to
prove the immortalitie of the Soul as the proper merit of Justice.
[_Tr._ by E.G.S.] 1627.
THE FAMILIAR EPISTLES. (Epistolæ ad Familiares). _Tr._ by J. Webbe,
1570.
LETTERS: SELECTIONS. A very necessary entrance to speaking and
writing the Latin Tongue. _Tr._ by T. W. 1575.
ORATIONS ... Pro M. MARCELLO. The oration which Cicero made to Cæsar
giving thanks to him for pardoning M. Marcellus. _Tr._ 1555.
THE ORATIONS OF M. TULLIUS CICERO. _Tr._ ... with notes ... 1745-52.
THE THREE BOOKES OF TULLYES OFFYCES, BOTHE IN LATYNGE TONGE AND IN
ENGLYSSHE, lately translated by Roberte Whytinton, 1534.
THOSE FYUE QUESTIONS WHICH MARKE TULLYE CICERO DISPUTED IN HIS MANOR
AT TUSCULANUM. _Tr._ by John Dolman, 1561.
TULLY'S FIVE BOOKS DE FINIBUS. Translated by S. P. Gent. (Saml.
Parker), revised by J. Collier ... with an apology for the
Philosophical Writings of Cicero, by Henry Dodwell. 1702.
TULLY'S THREE BOOKS TOUCHING THE NATURE OF THE GODS. (De Natura
Deorum.) 1683.
Orators and preachers of the 17th and 18th centuries based
their style upon Cicero. He formed what is known as the
'Johnsonian' style. Burke, Fox, Pitt and Gladstone modelled
themselves on Cicero.
'It is not too much to say that the highest eloquence of Italy,
France and England has at all times striven to be Ciceronian.'
=CID.= _b._ 1040, _d._ 1099. =Spanish hero.=
The Moorish appellation of a celebrated Castilian hero, who was
born at Burgos about 1040, and whose proper name was Rodrigo
or Ruy Diaz de Bivar. He was also surnamed Campeador ('the
Champion'). A poem of which the Cid is the subject, composed by
'the Homer of Spain', an author whose name is unknown.
=CID ROMANCES.=
The most important of the Cid literature is the poem written
about the 12th cent., and probably the oldest document in the
Spanish language.
GIBSON, J. YOUNG. _Tr._ THE CID BALLADS, [AND OTHER POEMS]. _Ed._
Margaret D. Gibson. 2 v. 1887.
LEWIS, G. _Tr._ THE CID BALLADS. 1883.
LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON. _Tr._ ANCIENT SPANISH BALLADS. Historical and
Romantic. 1823.
[Contains ballads afterwards omitted.]
ORMSBY, JOHN. _Tr._ POEMS OF THE CID. 1879.
SOUTHEY, R. _Tr._ AMADIS OF GAUL. 1872.
SOUTHEY, R. _Tr._ CHRONICLES OF THE CID. [Prose.] 1808.
Translated from three books, (1) 'Chronica del Cid', (2)
'Chronica Genera de España', (3) 'Poema del Cid' (composed, c.
1135-75).
=CODEX EXONIENSIS=: Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. _Ed._ Benj.
Thorpe, with _tr._, 1842.
Also under =Anthologies, General=, and =Exeter Book=.
=CODEX VERCELLENSIS=, Anglo-Saxon Poetry of the. Ed. J. M. Kemble, 2
pts., with _tr._, 1843-56.
Also under =Anthologies, General= and =Vercelli Book=.
=COMENIUS (KOMENSKÝ) JOHANNES AMOS.= _b._1592, _d._ 1671. =Slavic
educator and bishop.=
A CONTINUATION OF J. A. COMENIUS, SCHOOL ENDEAVOURS; or, A SUMMARY
DELINEATION OF DR. CYPRIAN KINNER, Etc. _Translated_ out of the
original Latine, transmitted to Sam. Hartlibb, and by him published.
1648.
THE GATE OF TONGUES UNLOCKED AND OPENED, or else A SEMINARY or SEED
PLOT OF ALL TONGUES AND SCIENCES. In Latin, English and French, by J.
Anchoran. 1639.
NATURALL PHILOSOPHIE REFORMED BY DIVINE LIGHT; or, A SYNOPSIS OF
PHYSICS, etc. _Translated_ from the Latin, 1651.
A PATTERNE OF UNIVERSALL KNOWLEDGE, IN A PLAINE AND TRUE DRAUGHT,
etc. _Tr._ into English by J. Collier, 1651.
A REFORMATION OF SCHOOLES, designed in two treatises, etc. And now
_translated_ into English by S. Hartlibb. 1642.
He was invited to several foreign countries for the purpose of
reforming the methods of public instruction.
=COMMINES, PHILIPPE DE.= _b._ 1445, _d._ 1509. =French historian.=
HISTORY. (1523). Englished by Sir T. Danet, 1596.
'This most judicious and able history, which comprises a period
of thirty-four years during the reigns of Lewis XI and Charles
VIII of France, was said by Catherine de Medicis to have made
as many heretics in politics, as Luther's works had done in
religion'. Highly praised for its fidelity, candour, and deep
insight into men and things.
=COMTE. ISIDORE AUGUSTA MARIE FRANÇOIS XAVIER.= _b._ 1798, _d._ 1857.
=French philosopher.=
APPEAL TO CONSERVATIVES. _Tr._ T. C. Donkin and R. Congreve, 1889.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS. _Tr._ from the Cours de Philosophie
Positive of A. C. (1822) by W. M. Gillespie. _Tr._ 1851.
THE POSITIVIST LIBRARY (IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY) OF AUGUSTE COMTE.
_Tr._ and _Ed._ F. Harrison, 1886.
THE POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY OF AUGUSTE COMTE, freely translated and
condensed ... by Harriet Martineau, 3 v. 1852.
COMTE'S PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENCES. _Tr._ by G. H. Lewes, 1847.
RELIGION OF HUMANITY ... SUBJECTIVE SYNTHESIS, OR UNIVERSAL STATE OF
HUMANITY, etc. [_Tr._ R. Congreve]. Vol. 1. 1891.
=CONDILLAC, ETIENNE BONNOT DE.= _b._ 1715, _d._ 1780. =French
philosopher and metaphysician.=
AN ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. Being a supplement to Mr.
Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding. _Tr._ by Thos. Nugent,
1756.
=CONDORCET, JEAN ANTOINE NICOLAS DE CARITAT.= _b._ 1743, _d._ 1794.
=French philosopher.=
REFLECTIONS ON THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION, 1688, and that of August 10,
1792. _Tr._ 1792.
LIFE OF VOLTAIRE. 2 v. _Tr._ 1790.
=CONFUCIUS.= _b._ 551 B.C. =The most illustrious of the Chinese
philosophers.=
MORALS OF CONFUCIUS. _Tr._ 1691.
WORKS, containing the original Text and a Dissertation on the Chinese
Language and Character. By J. Marshman (vol. i. only published). 1809.
=CONSCIENCE, HENDRIK.= _b._ 1812, _d._ 1883. =Flemish novelist.=
COUNT HUGO OF CRAENHOVE. (1845.) _Tr._ 1867.
THE DEMON OF GOLD. (De Geldduivel 1856.) _Tr._ 1857.
THE GOOD MOTHER. (1844.) _Tr._ 1852.
HAPPINESS OF BEING RICH. _Tr._ 1888.
IRON TOMB. _Tr._ 1889.
THE LION OF FLANDERS (De Leeuw von Vlaenderen 1838). _Tr._ 1838.
OFF TO CALIFORNIA. _Tr._ by J. F. Cobb, 1884.
THE PROGRESS OF A PAINTER. _Tr._ 1852.
SKETCHES FROM FLEMISH LIFE, in three tales. _Tr._ 1846.
TALES. 10 v. _Tr._ 1888-92.
VEVA: or THE WAR OF THE PEASANTS: an historical tale. _Tr._ 1855.
THE VILLAGE INNKEEPER. (1851) _Tr._ 1867.
=CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, HENRI BENJAMIN DE.= _b._ 1767, _d._ 1830.
=French orator, politician and litterateur.=
ADOLPHE.... [_Tr._ A. Walker] 1816.
ON THE POLITICAL DOCTRINE CALCULATED TO UNITE PARTIES IN FRANCE.
_Tr._ T. E. Darby, 1817.
=COPPÉE, FRANÇOIS,= _b_. 1842, _d_. 1908. =French poet.=
TEN TALES. _Tr_. Walt. Learned, 1892.
BLESSED ARE THE POOR. _Tr_. 1894.
THE NEWSPAPER WOMAN. _Tr_. T. L. Oxley, 1880.
THE WAIF. _Tr_. 1880.
THE PASSER-BY. A comedy. _Tr_. 1885.
FOR THE CROWN. A play. _Tr_. 1896.
THE TREASURE. _Tr_. 1895.
=CORNEILLE, PIERRE.= _b_. 1606, _d_. 1684. =French dramatist.=
AMOROUS ORONTUS. _Tr_. by J. Bulteel, 1665.
THE CID. (1636.) _Tr_. by J. Rutter, Part I. 1637.
THE EXTRAVAGANT SHEPHERD. _Tr_. by T. R. 1653.
HERACLIUS, EMPEROUR OF THE EAST. _Tr_. by L. Carlell, 1664.
HORATIUS: a Roman Tragedy. _Tr_. by Wm. Lower, 1656.
THE LABYRINTH, OR THE FATAL EMBARRASSMENT. _Tr. 1776_.
MAXIMIAN. _Tr_. by Lady S. Burrell, 1800.
MELITE (1629). _1776_.
NICOMEDE. (1653.) _Tr_. by John Dancer, 1671.
POMPEY. _Tr_. by Mrs. C. Philips, 1663.
RODOGUNE, or THE RIVAL BROTHERS (1646). _Tr_. (by Sampson Aspinall),
1765.
The French declamatory tragedy of Corneille takes as its
type the drama of Seneca. The works of C. influenced the
post-Restoration dramatists.
=COSTES, GAUTIER DE, SEIGNEUR DE LA CALPRENÈDE.= _b_. 1616 (?), _d_.
1680 (?). =French writer of fiction.=
CASSANDRA, THE FAM'D ROMANCE. (1642.) Rendred into English by Sir C.
Cotterell, 1652.
CLEOPATRA. Hymen's Præludia (1647) ... being the first part of that
much admired romance, intituled Cleopatra. _Tr_. by R. Loveday, 1652.
PHARAMOND; or THE HISTORY OF FRANCE. _Tr._ by J. Phillips, 1677.
These works when translated into English were much read.
Dryden's 'Secret Love' taken from the 'Grand Cyrus' and
Settle's 'Ibrahim'.
=COTTIN, MME.= _b._ 1773, _d._ 1807. =French novelist.=
ELIZABETH: or THE EXILES OF SIBERIA. _Tr._ 1809.
AMELIA MANSFIELD. _Tr._ 1803.
CLARA. _Tr._ 2 v. 1808.
MALVINA. _Tr._ 1810.
MATILDA AND MALEK ADHEL. _Tr._ 1833.
=COUSIN, VICTOR.= _b._ 1792, _d._ 1867. =French metaphysician,
philosopher and author.=
INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. _Tr._ H. G. Linberg, 1832.
COURSE OF THE HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY. _Tr._ G. W. Wight, 2 v.
1852.
ELEMENTS OF PSYCHOLOGY. _Tr._ 1834.
PHILOSOPHY OF THE BEAUTIFUL. _Tr._ J. C. Daniel, 1848.
ON THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN HOLLAND. _Tr._ 1838.
JUSTICE AND CHARITY. _Tr._ W. Hazlitt, 1848.
=COVENTRY MYSTERIES.= _Cir._ 1392.
Ed. Halliwell, Shakespeare Soc., 1841.
=CRÉBILLON, C. PROSPER JOLYOT DE.= _b._ 1707, _d._ 1777. =French
Novelist.=
THE WANDERINGS OF THE HEART AND MIND.... _Tr._ M. Clancy, 1751.
LETTERS FROM THE MARCHIONESS DE M. _Tr._ 1737.
THE SOPHA: a moral tale. _Tr._ 1781.
THE SKIMMER. _Tr._ 1735.
=CURSOR MUNDI. A non-religious poem.=
_Ed._ R. Morris, E.E.T.S., 1874-91.
=CURTIUS, QUINTUS. Roman historian.=
THE HISTORIE OF QUINTUS CURTIUS, CONTAINING THE ACTES OF THE GREATE
ALEXANDER. _Tr_. John Brende, 1561.
LIFE AND DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. _Tr_. Thos. Codrington, 1652.
=CYNEWULF=. 8th century?
JULIANA. _Ed_. W. Strunk. Belles Lettres Series.
JULIANA, ST., Legend of. Pt. of Codex Exon. _Tr_. 1842.
THE CHRIST. _Ed_., Text and Tr. J. Gollancz, 1892.
ANDREAS, AND FATES OF THE APOSTLES. _Ed_. W. M. Baskervill, Albion
Series.
DESCENT INTO HELL. _Ed_. W. H. Hulme, with The Christ. Belles Lettres
Series.
DREAM OF THE ROOD, or, VISION OF THE CROSS. _Ed_. A. S. Cook, 1905.
PHŒNIX. Pt. of Codex Exon. _Tr_. 1842.
RIDDLES. Pt. of Codex Exon. _Tr_. 1842.
ELENE. Pt. of Codex Vercell. _Tr_. 1843-56.
GUTHLAC (Doubtful). Goodwin, C. W. _Ed_. The Anglo-Saxon Version of
the Life of St. Guthlac. _Tr_. 1848.
HARROWING OF HELL. Pt. of Codex Exon. _Tr_. 1842.
=CYRANO DE BERGERAC (SAVINIEN)=. _See_ =Bergerac=.
=D'ALEMBERT=. _See_ =ALEMBERT=.
=DANTE ALIGHIERI=. _b_. 1265, _d_. 1321. =Italian poet=.
THE DIVINA COMMEDIA, consisting of the Inferno, Purgatorio, and
Paradiso. _Tr_. by Rev. Henry Boyd. 1802.
DIVINE COMEDY. INFERNO. A Literal Prose Translation by J. A. Carlyle,
1849.
THE INFERNO. _Tr_. by Chas. Rogers, 1782.
THE INFERNO OF DANTE. _Tr_. by Rev. Henry Cary. 1806.
THE VISION OF HELL, PURGATORY AND PARADISE OF DANTE. _Tr_. by Rev.
Henry Cary. 1814.
[VITA NUOVA.] CANZONIERE, including the Poems of the Vita Nuova and
the Convito, Italian and English. _Tr_. by Charles Lyall, 1835.
Dante utilized the epic of Virgil as the basis for his
poems. Influenced Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. 'House of Fame'
and 'Parliament of Fowles' by Chaucer show borrowings and
translations from D.
'Dante set modern Europe a great example, a model of sublimity
in literature; though he did indeed supply English writers
with many a thought and phrase, nevertheless his influence is
chiefly indirect'.
=DAUDET, ALPHONSE=. _b_. 1840, _d_. 1897. =French dramatist and
novelist=.
ARTISTS' WIVES. (1874.) _Tr_. 1889.
BELLE NIVERNAISE. (1887.) _Tr_. 1888.
EVANGELIST; or, PORT SALVATION. (1883). _Tr_. 2 v. 1885.
KINGS IN EXILE. (1879). _Tr_. 1896.
MY BROTHER JACK; or THE STORY OF WHAT-D'YE-CALL 'EM. Written by
himself. _Tr_. by L. Ford (1873), 1877.
THE NABOB. A story of Parisian life and Manners. _Tr_. by E.
Clarequin (1877). 1878.
THE NEW DON QUIXOTE; or, THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF TARTARIN OF
TARASCON, (1872).... _Tr_. by C. Roland, 1875.
NUMA ROUMESTAN; or, JOY ABROAD AND GRIEF AT HOME. (1881.) _Tr_.
1884-86.
ONE OF THE FORTY (L'IMMORTAL). (1888.) _Tr_. by Verrall, 1888.
PORT TARASCON. (1890). _Tr_. 1890.
RECOLLECTIONS OF A LITERARY MAN. _Tr_. by Ensor, 1889.
ROBERT HELMONT: Diary of a Recluse. (1871.) _Tr_. 1888.
ROSE AND NINETTE. _Tr_. 1892.
SAPPHO: a romance (1884). _Tr_. by J. and R. Maxwell, 1886.
TARTARIN IN THE ALPS. (1885). _Tr_. 1886.
THIRTY YEARS OF PARIS AND OF MY LITERARY LIFE. _Tr_. 1888.
WORKS. _Tr_. H. Frith, L. Ensor, E. Barlow, etc. 9 v. 1896.
=DELILLE, JACQUES=. _b_. 1738, _d_. 1813. =French poet and
academician=.
THE GARDENS; or THE ART OF LAYING OUT GROUNDS. _Tr_. 1789.
THE RURAL PHILOSOPHER; or FRENCH GEORGICS. _Tr_. by John Maunde, 1801.
=DEMOSTHENES=. _b_. 383, _d_. 322 B.C. =Greek orator=.
THE THREE ORATIONS OF DEMOSTHENES, IN FAVOUR OF THE OLYNTHIANS. _Tr_.
by Thos. Wylson, 1570.
The influence of D., though considerable, is indirect through
Latin literature. 'All Roman orators were avowed students of
Greek methods'.
'That Demosthenes is the prince of orators everybody knows'.
=DENINA, CARLO G. M.= _b_. 1731, _d_. 1813. =Italian historian=.
AN ESSAY ON THE REVOLUTIONS OF LITERATURE. _Tr_. by John Murdoch.
[1771.]
A DISSERTATION, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL, ON THE ANCIENT REPUBLICS OF
ITALY. _Tr_. John Langhorne, 1773.
=DESCARTES, RENÉ=. _b_. 1596, _d_. 1650. =French philosopher and
mathematician=.
DESCARTES' EXCELLENT COMPENDIUM OF MUSICK: WITH ANIMADVERSIONS
THEREUPON. By a person of Honour (Lord Brounkes). 1653.
A DISCOURSE OF A METHOD FOR THE WELL GUIDING OF REASON AND THE
DISCOVERY OF TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES (Discours de la Méthode, 1637).
_Tr_. 1649.
LIFE OF R. DESCARTES, containing the History of His Philosophy and
works. _Tr_. 1693.
A NEW VOYAGE TO THE WORLD OF CARTESIUS. _Tr_. by Thos. Taylor, 1692.
THE PASSIONS OF THE SOULE, in three books. _Translated_, with
prefatory letters, 1650.
His works manifest original, daring and independent genius,
endowed with great force and subtlety of thought. Spinoza
derived from him his pantheism, and Berkeley his pure idealism.
His influence was almost universal in the seventeenth century.
Newton demonstrated his more simple physical principles.
=DIDEROT, DENIS=. _b_. 1713, _d_. 1784. _French philosopher and
savant_.
DORVAL, or THE TEST OF VIRTUE. A Comedy [in five acts and in prose].
_Tr_. 1767.
AN ESSAY ON BLINDNESS, etc. Interspersed with several anecdotes of
Sanderson, Milton, and others. _Tr_. [1750].
THE FAMILY PICTURE: a play (Père de Famille); with verses on
different subjects. By a Lady, 1781.
RAMEAU'S NEPHEW. [1805]. _Tr_. by S. M. Hill, 1897.
THOUGHTS ON ART AND STYLE. _Tr_. 1893.
A satire on Parisian society, as it was just before the
Revolution, in the form of a dialogue, which gives a view of
the world as seen through the eyes of a parasite.
His reputation is founded upon the 'Encyclopædia, ou
Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et Métiers'. This
was written in conjunction with d'Alembert.
=DIGBY MIRACLE PLAYS=. _Ed_. W. Sharpe, 1835.
=DIODORUS SICULUS=. B.C. 50. =Greek historian=.
HISTORY OF THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER, SURNAMED THE GREAT. _Tr_.
Thos. Stocker, 1569.
HISTORY OF THE WORLD, done into English by G. Booth, 1700.
=DOSTOIEFFSKY, FEDOR=. _b_. 1822, _d_. 1881. =Russian novelist=.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. _Tr_. 1886.
THE IDIOT. _Tr_. 1887.
INJURY AND INSULT. _Tr_. 1886.
UNCLE'S DREAM AND PERMANENT HUSBAND. 1888.
BURIED ALIVE. _Tr_. 1881.
THE PERMANENT HUSBAND. _Tr_. 1888.
THE GAMBLER. _Tr_. 1887.
FRIEND OF THE FAMILY. _Tr_. 1887.
POOR FOLK. _Tr_. L. Milman, 1894.
=DU BARTAS, G. SALUSTE, SR.= _b_. 1544, _d_. 1590. =French Statesman
and poet=.
BARTAS HIS DIVINE WEEKES AND WORKES ... Translated and written by yt
famous Philomusus, Josvah Sylvester, Gent. 1605-7.
There are many selections from Sylvester's translation of Du
B., a work to which Milton was evidently greatly indebted.
BABILON.... _Tr_. by W. Lisle. 1596.
A CANTICLE OF THE VICTORY OBTAINED BY THE FRENCH KING HENRIE THE
FOURTH. At Yvry. _Tr_. by J. S. Marchant, 1590.
COLONIES OF BARTAS, with the Commentary of S. G. S. _Tr_. by R. F.,
1598.
FIRST DAY OF THE WORLD'S CREATION. _Tr_. by J. Jackson, 1596.
HISTORIE OF JUDITH.... _Tr_. by Tho. Hudson, 1584.
MIRACLE OF THE PEACE IN FRANCE.... _Tr_ by J. Sylvester, 1599.
SECOND DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF WILL. DE SALUSTE, LORD OF BARTAS, in
English heroical verse, by Tho. Winter, 1603.
SECONDE WEEKE, or THE CHILDHOOD OF THE WORLD. _Tr_. by J. Sylvester,
1598.
THIRD DAYES CREATION. _Tr_. by Tho. Winter 1604.
THE TRIUMPH OF FAITH. THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC. THE SHIP-WRACKE OF
JONAS. WITH A SONG OF VICTORIE OBTAINED BY THE FRENCH KING AT YVRY.
_Tr_. by J. S. Marchant, 1590.
=DU BELLAY, JOACHIM=. _b_. 1524, _d_. 1560. =Surnamed the 'French
Ovid'=.
A TREATISE WHEREIN HE REPRESENTED ... THE MISERIES ... THAT FOLLOW
THE VOLUPTUOUS WORLDLINGS. [With Epigrams and Sonnets.] _Tr_. 1569.
COMPLAINTS, Containing sundrie small poemes of the World's Vanitie.
(The Ruines of Rome.) _Tr_. by Ed. Sp[enser], 1591.
Du B. and Ronsard are the two most important names of the
'Pléiade'. The followers of Du B. and R., through the Italian
school introduced the 'classical' style of verse into England.
Du Bellay served as a pattern to English writers.
=DUCLOS, CHARLES PINAUD=. _b_. 1704, _d_. 1772. =French historian and
academician=.
HISTORY OF LOUIS XI, KING OF FRANCE. 2 v. _Tr_. 1746.
=DUKE ROWLAND AND SIR OTUELL=. 14th cent. _Ed_. S. J. Herrtage.
E.E.T.S., 1885.
=DUMAS, ALEXANDRE=. _b_. 1803, _d_. 1870. =French novelist and
dramatist=.
AMAURY. (1844.) _Tr_. 1845.
BLACK TULIP. _Tr_. 1851.
CAPTAIN PAUL. (The Sicilian Bandit.) _Tr_. 1859.
CHEVALIER DE MAISON ROUGE: a tale of the Reign of Terror. (1846.)
_Tr_. 1846.
THE COMPANY OF JEHU. _Tr_. K. P. Wormeley. 2 v. 1895.
THE CONSPIRATORS. _Tr_. 1847.
COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. (1844.) _Tr_. 1846.
COUNTESS DE CHARNY. (1853.) _Tr_. 1858.
FORTY-FIVE GUARDSMEN. _Tr_. 1848.
GOOD LADY BERTHA'S HONEY BROTH. _Tr_. 1846.
THE HALF BROTHERS. _Tr_. by L. Lawford, 1858.
MARGUÉRITE DE VALOIS. (1845.) _Tr_. 1846.
MEMOIRS. 2 v. 1890.
MEMOIRS. 6 v. _Tr_. 1908.
MEMOIRS OF A PHYSICIAN (1846). _Tr_. 1846.
PASCAL BRUNO: a Cicilian story (1837). _Tr_. 1846.
QUEEN'S NECKLACE (1847). _Tr_. 1849.
REGENT'S DAUGHTER (1844). _Tr_. 1845.
TAKING THE BASTILE; or, SIX YEARS LATER. 2 v. _Tr_. 1847.
THREE MUSKETEERS (1844). _Tr_. 1846.
TWENTY YEARS AFTER (1845). _Tr_. 1845.
VIC. DE BRAGELONNE (1868). 2 v. _Tr_. 1868.
In the 19th century Dumas exercised a vast influence on the
English historical romancists. G. P. R. James was his literary
offspring entirely.
=EBERS, GEORGE MORITZ=. _b_. 1837, _d_. 1898. =German novelist=.
ARACHNE: a historical romance. M. J. Safford. 2 v. [1898.]
BARBARA BLOMBERG. _Tr_. M. J. Safford. 2 v. 1897.
BRIDE OF THE NILE. _Tr_. by C. Bell. 2 v. 1887.
THE BURGOMASTER'S WIFE; a tale of the Siege of Leyden. (1882.) _Tr_.
1882.
CLEOPATRA. _Tr_. M. J. Safford. 2 v. 1894.
EGYPT: Historical and Picturesque. _Tr_. by C. Bell, 1881-87.
AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS (Eine Aegyptische Königstochter, 1864.) _Tr_.
1870.
THE ELIXIR, and other Tales. _Tr_. Mrs. E. H. Bell, 1890.
THE EMPEROR. _Tr_. 1882.
HOMO SUM. (1878.) _Tr_. 1878.
IN THE BLUE PIKE. _Tr_. M. J. Safford. [1896.]
IN THE FIRE OF THE FORGE. _Tr_. 1895.
MARGERY: Tale of Old Nuremberg. _Tr_. by C. Bell. 2 v. 1889.
ONLY A WORD. _Tr_. 1883.
PER ASPERA. _Tr_. C. Bell. 2 v. 1892.
SERAPIS. _Tr._ 1885.
THE STORY OF MY LIFE. _Tr._ M. J. Safford, 1893.
UARDA: a romance of Ancient Egypt. (1877.) _Tr._ 1877.
=EMARE.= _Ed._ Ritson; Gough, A. B.
OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS, 1901.
=ENGLISH ANTHOLOGIES.= _See_ =Anthologies, General, etc.=
=EÖTVÖS, J. F.= _b._ 1813, _d._ 1871. =Hungarian novelist.=
VILLAGE NOTARY. (1844-46.) _Tr._ 1850.
=EPICTETUS.= 1st century A.D. =Stoic philosopher.=
THE MANUELL OF EPICTETUS, translated out of Greeke into French, and
now into English, conferred with two Latin translations. Hereunto are
annexed annotations, and also the apothegms of the same author, by J.
Sanford, 1567.
He left no written books, but his doctrines were recorded by
his disciple Arrian, in eight books, four of which have come
down to us.
=EPICURUS.= B.C. 342-270. =Greek philosopher.=
MORALS. _Tr._ John Digby, with an Essay by John Johnson, 1712.
EPICURUS MORALS. _Tr._ W. Charlton, 1656. [Collection].
=ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS.= _b._ 1466, _d._ 1536. =Dutch scholar and
philosopher.=
APOPHTHEGMES. _Tr._ by N. Udall. [1542.]
A BOKE CALLED IN LATYN ENCHIRIDION MILITIS CHRISTIANI AND IN ENGLISH
THE MANUELL OF THE CHRISTEN KNIGHT, replenished with most holsome
precepts to ... the which is added a newe and mervaylous profytable
preface. [This translation is attributed to Tyndale.] (1515.) 1533.
AN EXHORTATION; or FAMILIAR DISCOURSE OF D. ERASMUS.... _Tr._ [by W.
Roy?] 1529.
LYFE OF SAYNT ERASMUS. Imp. by Julyan Notary. [1520.]
A LYTTLE BOOKE OF GOOD MANNERS FOR CHYLDREN. _Tr._ by R. Whytynton.
1522.
THE PARAPHRASE OF ERASMUS UPON THE NEW TESTAMENT. 1548.
THE PRAISE OF FOLIE. (Moriæ Encomium). (1509.) Englisshed by Sir T.
Chaloner, 1549.
A PLAYNE AND GODLY EXPOSITION OR DECLARATIÕ OF THE CÕMUME CREDE
(which in the Latyn tonge is called SYMBOLUM APOSTOLORUM) and OF
THE X CÕMAUNDMENTES by GODDES LAW, newly made and put forth by the
famouse clerke, Mayster E. of Roterdame, etc. [1533.]
PREPARATION TO DEATH, a boke as devout as eloquent. 1543.
A RYGHT FRUTEFULL EPYSTLE ... IN LAUDE AND PRAYSE OF MATRYMONY,
translated in to Englishe by R. Tavenour, etc. [1530.]
Pre-eminent as a restorer of learning. He is considered the
greatest wit and most eminent scholar of the age in which he
lived, and one of the most conspicuous and successful of those
who laboured to restore classical learning and sound philosophy.
=ERCKMANN, EMIL.= _b._ 1822, _d._ 1899. =CHATRIAN, ALEX.= 1826-90.
=French novelists.=
THE BLOCKADE. _Tr._ 1869.
CONSCRIPT. _Tr._ 1865.
DOCTOR MATTHEUS. _Tr._ 1868.
MADAME THÉRÈSE (1863). _Tr._ 1868.
POLISH JEW. _Tr._ 1870.
STORY OF THE PLEBISCITE. _Tr._ 1872.
WATERLOO. _Tr._ 1865.
YEAR ONE OF THE REPUBLIC. _Tr._ [1873].
CITIZEN BONAPARTE. _Tr._ [1874].
ALSACIAN SCHOOLMASTER. _Tr._ [1872].
CONFESSIONS OF A CLARIONET PLAYER [_Tr._ 1874.]
THE BELLS. _Tr._ 1872.
THE WILD HUNTSMAN. _Tr._ [1877].
FRIEND FRITZ. _Tr._ [1873].
BRIGADIER FREDERIC. _Tr._ F. A. Malleson, 1875.
THE BROTHERS RANTZAU. 2v. _Tr._ [1873].
THE GREAT INVASION OF 1813-14. _Tr._ [1870].
WAR. _Tr._ H. L. Williams. [1872].
MAN OF THE PEOPLE. _Tr._ 1871.
STORY OF A PEASANT. _Tr._ [1871].
=ESPINEL, VINCENT.= _b._ 1544, _d._ 1634. =Spanish poet and novelist.=
THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE SQUIRE MARCOS DE OBREGON. _Tr._ into
English from the Madrid Ed. 1618, by Major Algernon Langton. 2 v.
1618.
This novel is generally supposed to have served as a model for
that of Gil Blas.
=EUCLID.= 3rd century B.C. =Greek geometrician.=
THE ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY [containing the xv. books] OF ...
EUCLIDE ... now first translated into the Englishe Toung, by H.
Billingsley. Whereunto are annexed certaine annotations of the best
mathematiciens, etc. 1570.
[The first printed Greek text was published in Basle in 1533.]
=EULENSPIEGEL.=
A half-mythical German jester, said to have died in 1350. His
name is perpetuated in a famous chap-book, once very popular
with the peasantry of many nations, and containing many
ludicrous stories. The book was probably written by Thomas
Murner.
EULENSPIEGEL (TYLL OWLGLASS).
Here beginneth a merye Jest of a man that was called Howleglass and
of many marveylous things and Jestes that he dyd in his lyfe, in
Eastlande and in many other places. [1528].
'"Eulenspiegel": a series of amusing trickeries which are
reflected in the English Robin Goodfellow'.
=EURIPIDES.= _b._ 480, _d._ 406 B.C. =Greek tragic dramatist.=
JOCASTA: a Tragedie, translated [from the Phoenissæ] and digested
into Acte by G. Gascoygne and F. Kinwelmershe [1575].
JOCASTA. _In_ a hundredth sundrie Flowers, etc. _Tr._ by Geo.
Gascoigne [1572].
SELECT TRAGEDIES. _Tr._ [by G. James Bannister]. 1780.
THE TRAGEDIES OF EURIPIDES, translated [by R. Potter]. 1781-3.
Influenced Swinburne's 'Atalanta in Calydon', Milton's 'Samson
Agonistes', Addison's 'Cato', Byron's 'Cain' and 'Manfred', and
Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound'.
=EUTROPIUS, FLAVIUS.= 364. =Latin historian.=
A BRIEFE CHRONICLE OF THE ROMAINE DE LA PUBLIQUE, etc., Englished by
Nicholas Hawarde, 1564.
=EXETER BOOK= (=CODEX EXONIENSIS=).
'This book was presented to his Cathedral by Leofric, the first
Bishop of Exeter, about the middle of the 11th century. It is
preserved in the Cathedral Library at Exeter; the first leaves are
missing, and the last leaves are injured. The hand-writing of the MS.
belongs probably to the first half of the 11th century'.
Edited with _Tr._ by B. Thorpe, 1842. I. Gollancz, Poems i to viii,
E.E.T.S., 1895.
_Contents_: 1, The Christ. 2, Guthlac. 3, Azarias. 4, Phœnix. 5,
Juliana. 6, Wanderer. 7, Gifts of Men. 8, The Father's Teaching. 9,
Seafarer. 10, Spirit of Men. 11, Widsid (The Singer's Wandering). 12,
Fates of Men. 13, Gnomic Verses. 14, Wonders of Creation. 15, Rhyme
Song. 16, Panther. 17, Whale. 18, Partridge. 19, Address of the Soul
to the Body. 20, Deor. 21, Riddles, 1-60. 22, The Wife's Complaint.
23, The Last Judgement. 24, A Prayer. 25. Descent into Hell. 26,
Alms. 27, Pharaoh. 28, Fragments of a Paternoster. 29, Fragments of
a Didactic Poem. 30, Another form of Riddle, 31, Riddle 61. 31, The
Husband's Message. 32, The Ruin. 33, Riddles 62-89.
=FARINI, LUIGI CARLO.= _b._ 1812, _d._ 1866. =Italian Statesman.=
THE ROMAN STATE FROM 1815-50. Vols. 1-3. _Tr._ W. E. Gladstone. Vol.
4., _tr._ by a Lady 1851-54.
=FAUSTUS, DR., STORIES OF.= 1587.
[1] THE HISTORIE OF THE DAMNABLE LIFE, AND DESERVED DEATH OF DOCTOR
JOHN FAUSTUS. Newly Printed, and in convenient places imperfect
matter amended. _Tr._ by P. F. Gent, etc. 1592.
THE SECOND REPORT OF DOCTOR JOHN FAUSTUS, CONTEANING HIS APPEARANCES
AND THE DEEDS OF WAGNER. _Tr._ 1594.
[1] Of great interest as being the source of Marlowe's 'Dr.
Faustus' (his greatest play). It is a translation from the
German 'Faustbuch' published at Frankfort, 1587. 'The Second
Report ... (a translation of the 'Wagnerbuch', 1593) is
supposed to have been written by an English gentleman, student
at Wittenberg.
=FAVINE (FAVYN), ANDREW.= =French writer.=
THE THEATER OF HONOUR AND KNIGHTHOOD: or A COMPENDIOUS CHRONICLE AND
HISTOIRIE OF THE WHOLE CHRISTIAN WORLD, 2 v. _Tr._ 1623.
'This work, which is a translation of "Le Théâtre d'Honneur et
de Chevalerie", comprises the most valuable treatise we have in
English upon the foreign orders of knighthood; there are also
discussions upon ceremonies, combats, precedence, etc., equally
worthy the attention of the antiquary and historian'.--Sir M.
M. Sykes.
=FÉNELON, FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE.= _b._ 1651, _d._ 1715.
=French prelate and author.=
THE ADVENTURES OF TELEMACHUS. (Télémaque, 1699.) _Tr._ 1703.
DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD DEDUCED FROM THE KNOWLEDGE OF
NATURE (Traité sur l'Existence de Dieu.) _Tr._ 1754.
DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD. (Dialogues des Morts.) _Tr._ 1757.
DIALOGUES CONCERNING ELOQUENCE IN GENERAL. (Dialogues sur
l'Eloquence.) _Tr._ with quotations and notes by W. Stevenson. 1722.
LIVES OF THE ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS ... illustrated with notes and
preceded by a life of F. by John Cormack. 1803.
TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERS. (De l'Education des Filles.)
_Tr._ and adapted to English Readers, with an original Chapter on
Religious Studies. By T. F. Dibdin, 1805.
=FERUMBRAS.= _See_ =Sir Ferumbras=.
=FEUILLET, OCTAVE.= _b._ 1821, _d._ 1890. =French litterateur.=
A WOMAN'S DIARY AND THE LITTLE COUNTESS. _Tr._ 1881.
JOURNAL OF A WOMAN. _Tr._ [1885].
CAMORS; or, LIFE UNDER THE NEW EMPIRE. _Tr._ 1868.
THE DISGUISED NOBLEMAN. _Tr._ 1860.
HONOUR BEFORE WEALTH. A drama. _Tr._ [1850.]
A PARISIAN ROMANCE. A Play. _Tr._ 1883.
ROMANCE OF A POOR YOUNG MAN. _Tr._ 1888.
=FEYJOO, REV. FATHER B. J.= _b._ 1676, _d._ 1764. =Spanish critic and
moralist.=
ESSAYS OR DISCOURSES (29). _Tr._ from the Spanish by ... (John
Brett), 1777.
AN ESSAY ON THE LEARNING, GENIUS, AND ABILITIES OF THE FAIR SEX....
_Tr._ 1774.
THE HONOUR AND ADVANTAGE OF AGRICULTURE. _Tr._ 1764.
RULES FOR PRESERVING HEALTH. _Tr._ [1800].
=FICHTE, JOHANN GOTTLIEB.= _b._ 1762, _d._ 1814. =German Philosopher.=
THE DESTINATION OF MAN. _Tr._ by Mrs. P. Sinnett, 1846.
THE POPULAR WORKS OF J. G. F. _Tr._ ['The Vocation of the Scholar,'
'The Nature of the Scholar,' 'The Vocation of Man,' 'Characteristics
of the Present Age,' 'The Way towards the Blessed Life', Etc.]. With
a memoir of the author by W. Smith. 1848-49.
THE VOCATION OF MAN. _Tr._ by W. Smith, 1844.
=FIRDUSI= _or_ =FERDUSI= (=ABU KASIM MANSUR=). _b._ 940, _d._ 1020.
=Persian poet.=
THE POEMS OF FERDOSI. _Tr._ from the Persian by Joseph Champion, 1785.
SHAH NÁMA. _Tr._ and abridged by J. Atkinson, 1832.
Sir William Jones styles the 'Shah-námeh' 'a glorious monument
of Eastern genius and learning, which ... will contest the
merit of invention of Homer himself.'
=FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE.= _b._ 1821, _d._ 1880. =French novelist.=
BOUVARD AND PECUCHET. (1880.) _Tr._ 1896.
MADAME BOVARY. (Mœurs de province, 1857.) _Tr._ 1886.
SALAMMBÔ (1862). _Tr._ by M. French Sheldon [with an Introduction by
E. King]. 1886.
THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTHONY. _Tr._ D. F. Hannigan, 1895.
=FLORIZ AND BLAUNCHEFLUR.= _Cir._ 1250. Ed. J. R. Lumby, E.E.T.S.,
1866.
Ed. Hartshorne. Laing, Abbotsford Club, 1857.
=FLORUS, LUCIUS ANNÆUS.= 2nd century. =Roman historian.=
ROMAN HISTORIES. _Tr._ [Edmund Bolton], 1618.
=FONTENELLE, BERNARD LE BOUYER DE.= _b._ 1657, _d._ 1757. =French
litterateur, mathematician and philosopher.=
CONVERSATIONS ON THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS. _Tr._ [W. Gardiner]. 1715.
HISTORY OF ORACLES. _Tr._ 1688.
NEW DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD. _Tr._ 1692.
NORTHERN WORTHIES; or THE LIVES OF PETER THE GREAT.... _Tr._ 1730.
A PLURALITY OF WORLDS. _Tr._ Mr. Glanvil, 1695.
THE THEORY OR SYSTEM OF SEVERAL NEW INHABITED WORLDS.... _Tr._ Mrs.
Behn, 1700.
DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD. _Tr._ J. Hughes, 1754.
THE PRIZE OF WISDOM. _Tr._ 1713.
=FORTUNATUS.= 15th century. =German folk tales.=
FORTUNATUS. THE RIGHT PLEASANT AND VARIABLE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF
FORTUNATUS. Now first of all published in English by T. C. [Thomas
Churchyard]. 1612.
'One of the best "people's" books (Volksbücher) ever written'.
Thomas Dekker founded his 'Pleasant Comedie of Old Fortunatus'
(1600) upon this work.
=FOSCOLO, N. UGO.= _b._ 1777, _d._ 1827. =Italian poet.=
ESSAY ON THE LOVE, THE POETRY AND CHARACTER OF PETRARCH, comprising
numerous translations by the Author's Friends, Lady Barberina Dacre,
and others. 1823.
NARRATIVE OF THE EVENTS ILLUSTRATING THE VICISSITUDES AND THE CESSION
OF PARGA, AND THE IONIAN ISLANDS. _Tr._ 1820.
=FOUQUÉ, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH KARL, BARON DE LA MOTTE.= _b._ 1777, _d._
1843. =German poet and romance-writer.=
AN ESSAY OF THREE TALES, i.e. The Cypress Crown, etc. _Tr._ 1820.
THE MAGIC RING. _Tr._ 1825.
MINSTREL LOVE. _Tr._ by G. Soane, 1821.
RED MANTLE. _Tr._ 1845.
SINTRAM AND HIS COMPANIONS. _Tr._ [by J. C. Hare]. 1820.
UNDINE; a romance. _Tr._ 1818.
=FOUR SONS OF AYMON=. 1490-91. By Caxton. Known and tr. as Renaud de
Montauban, see p. 36. _Ed._ [Miss] O. Richardson. 2 pts. E.E.T.S.
1884.
=FOX AND THE WOLF.= _Ed._ T. Wright and Halliwell in their Reliqueae
Antiquae, v. 1, 1841.
This is the first English poem connected with the animal saga.
Probably written during reign of Edward I and based on the
Roman du Reynard.
=FRANCE, ANATOLE.= _b._ 1844. =French poet, novelist and critic.=
COMPLETE WORKS. _Ed._ F. Chapman. 1908.
1. THE RED LILY. _Tr._ W. Stephens, 1908.
2. MOTHER OF PEARL. _Tr._ T. Chapman, 1908.
3. GARDEN OF EPICURUS. _Tr._ A. Allinson, 1908.
4. CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD. _Tr._ L. Hearn, 1891.
=FRANZOS, KARL EMIL.= _b._ 1848. =Austrian Jewish novelist.=
THE JEWS OF BARNOW. _Tr._ M. W. Macdowall, 1882.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE. _Tr._ M. Corbet, 1890.
FOR THE RIGHT. _Tr._ 1887.
JUDITH TRACHTENBERG. _Tr._ Mrs. L. P. and C. T. Lewis, 1891.
=FRENCH ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS. Poetical, Fairy Tales, Folk-Tales,
and Traditional Literature.=
AULNOY, MME. D' (= _C'ess d'Anois_). _Ed._ FAIRY TALES. _Tr._ by Miss
Lee and A. Macdonald. 1891.
[The first English _Tr._ of all the twenty-four stories.]
AULNOY, MME. D'. FAIRY TALES. _Tr._ by J. R. Planché, 1855.
COSTELLO, LOUISA. SPECIMENS OF THE EARLY POETRY OF FRANCE, 1835.
_See also under_ Oxenford, J.
MORRIS, WM. _Tr._ OLD FRENCH ROMANCES, done into English. 1896. ('The
Tale of King Constans the Emperor', 'The Friendship of Amis and
Amile', 'The Story of King Florus and the Fair Jehane', 'The History
of Over Seas'.)
These four romances belong to the 13th century.
O'HAGAN, J. _Tr._ THE SONG OF ROLAND. 1882.
[The Chanson de Roland, _tr._ into English verse.]
OXENFORD, JOHN. THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF FRENCH SONGS.
_French-English._ _Tr._ by J. O. 1855.
Contains most of the national songs and ballads of France, many
of which have never been _tr._ before.
['Specimens of the Early Poetry of France' were added later by
Louisa S. Costello.]
TAYLOR, TOM. _Tr._ BALLADS AND SONGS OF BRITTANY. 1865.
WAY, G. L. _and_ G. ELLIS. _Tr._ FABLIAUX: or TALES FROM THE FRENCH,
3 v. 1796-1800.
ZIMMERN, HELEN. HALF HOURS WITH FRENCH NOVELISTS. 2 v. 1880.
=FREYTAG, GUSTAV.= _b._ 1816. _d._ 1895. =German dramatist and
novelist.=
DEBIT AND CREDIT. (1855.) _Tr._ by Mrs. Malcolm, 1856.
THE LOST MANUSCRIPT. (Die Verlorne Handschrift, 1864.) 1865.
OUR FOREFATHERS. A novel. (1872.) _Tr._ 1873.
PICTURES OF GERMAN LIFE. 2 Ser. _Tr._ 1862-63.
The works of F. achieved a very wide popularity, and were
translated into the principal modern languages.
=FROISSART, JEAN.= _b._ 1313, _d._ 1419. =French historian and poet.=
Here begynneth the First Volum of Sir J. Froissart: of the chronycles
of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne,
Flãunders: and other Places Adioynynge. _Translated_ by J. Bouchier,
Knight, Lord Berners, 1523-25.
Froissart's 'Chronicles' deals with the period between
1326-1400. It is mainly occupied with the affairs of France,
England, Scotland and Flanders, and he also supplies much
information in regard to Germany, Italy and Spain. The work has
greatly influenced our literature.
=FRONTINUS, SEXTUS JULIUS.= _b._ 40, _d._ 106. =Roman Statesman and
tactician.=
THE STRATEGEMS, SLEYGHTES, AND POLICIES OF WARRE. _Tr._ Rycharde
Morysine, 1539.
=FULK FITZ WARINE: The History of Fulk Fitz Warine, an outlawed baron
in the reign of King John.= (_c._ 1320.) _Tr._ by Thomas Wright, 1855.
'The French paraphrase probably, of an Anglo-Norman _chanson
de geste_, composed late in the 13th century, traces of poetic
diction being legible in the prose. As interesting, and almost
as natural, as a modern novel; the historical characters
forcibly sketched in'.
=GAMELYN,= Tale of. _Ed._ W. W. Skeat, 1893.
=GARCILASCO DE LA VEGA.= _b._ 1503, _d._ 1536. =Spanish poet.=
WORKS OF G. DE LA V., SURNAMED THE PRINCE OF CASTILIAN POETS. _Tr._
with a critical and historical Essay on Spanish Poetry and a life of
the Author by J. H. Wiffen, 1823.
ISABEL ... WITH OTHER POEMS. _Tr._ [by R. Walpole]. 1805.
Acquired a wide and durable reputation by his pastoral and
lyrical poems. Reformed, with Boscan, Spanish poetry by
introducing the Italian measure, which forms an epoch in the
literary history of Spain. G. has been styled the 'Spanish
Petrarch'.
=GARCILASCO DE LA VEGA.= _Surnamed_ 'The Inca'. _b._ 1530, _d._ 1568.
=Spanish historian.=
He is esteemed for his fidelity and accuracy.
ROYAL COMMENTARIES OF PERU, in two Parts.... Rendered out of Spanish
into English, by Sir P. Rycaut. Lond. 1688. (Commentarios Reales que
tratan del Origen de los Incas. (1609).)
OBSERVATIONS OF THINGS MOST REMARKABLE, collected out of the first
part of the Commentaries Royall.... The Supplement of the History of
the Incas, briefely collected out of the Author's second part. _Tr._
1625.
=GAUTIER, THÉOPHILE.= _b._ 1811, _d._ 1872. =French poet, critic, and
novelist.=
CAPTAIN FRACASSE. _Tr._ 1888.
MDLLE. DE MAUPIN. _Tr._ 1887.
ROMANCE OF A MUMMY. 1886.
=GELLIUS, AULUS.= _b._ 117, _d._ 180. =Latin grammarian and critic.=
THE ATTIC NIGHTS. _Tr._ Rev. W. Beloe. 3 v. 1795.
=GENERIDES.= _Cir._ 1440. _Ed._ F. J. Furnival, Roxburghe Club, 1865.
Ed. A. Wright, E.E.T.S., lv., lxx. 1873.
=GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH.= _b._ 1100, _d._ 1154. =British historian.=
THE BRITISH HISTORY. _Tr._ With a large commentary by Aaron Thomson,
1718.
Historia Regum Brittaniæ, or Historia Britonum, based, as
Geoffrey tells us, upon a very old book lent him by Archdeacon
Walter (Galenius) of Oxford, probably a volume of Breton
Legends. Geoffrey also drew from the older history of Nennius,
but there still remains a large portion of his work which has
not been traced beyond his own pen.
The 'Historia' is looked upon as an epoch-making book, owing
to the impulse it gave to the literature of Romance. Legends
afloat among the natives of Wales and Bretagne were now given
a literary garb which rendered them sufficiently attractive
to awaken the interest of the world in general, and the
imagination of the mediæval poet was aroused by the chivalric
glamour which the historian threw over his descriptions of
Arthur's Court. It was a main source, but not the exclusive
one of Arthurian legend, for independent of the fact that many
characteristic features of the latter are not mentioned by him,
there is evidence of Welsh fables being extant in the 12th
century, which supplied material for later romances apart from
Geoffrey's history.
This work is the fountain-head of medieval romance, the
principal source of the legends of Merlin and Arthur, which
were amplified by the romancers by material from Celtic
tradition. Geoffrey's work is the basis of Wace's 'Roman de
Brut' and of Layamon's 'Brut'.
=GERMAN ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS. Poetical, Fairy Tales, Folk-Tales,
and Traditional Literature.=
AIKMAN, C. M. _Tr._ POEMS FROM THE GERMAN. 1892.
[BECKFORD, WM.]. POPULAR TALES OF THE GERMANS. 1791.
CARLYLE, THOS. _Tr._ GERMAN ROMANCES: specimens of the chief authors,
with biographical and critical notices. 1827.
CARLYLE, THOS. TRANSLATIONS FROM MUSAEUS, TIECK AND RICHTER. 2 v.
1858.
CRAIGMYLE, ELIZ. _Tr._ GERMAN BALLADS. 1892.
[A good collection of popular German poetry.]
GILLIES, ROBERT P. GERMAN STORIES. Selected from the Works of
Hoffman, De la Motte Fouqué, Pichler, Kruse and others, 3 v. 1826.
GRIMM, JAKOB, K. L. GERMAN POPULAR STORIES. _Tr._ from the 'Kinder-
und Haus-Märchen' by Edgar Taylor, 1823-26.
HELLMAN, FRANCES. _Tr._ LYRICS AND BALLADS OF HEINE AND OTHER GERMAN
POETS. 1892.
HOLCROFT RICHARD. TALES FROM THE GERMAN. 1826.
LEMON, MARK. _Tr._ LEGENDS OF NUMBER NIP. 1864.
OXENFORD, JOHN _and_ C. A. FEILING. _Tr._ TALES FROM THE GERMAN,
comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors. [1850.]
ROSCOE. THOS. GERMAN NOVELISTS. 4 v. 1826.
SANTINE, X. B. _Ed._ MYTHS OF THE RHINE. _Tr._ 1840.
'Gives a good sketch of primitive Teuton times, of the Druids,
of Odinic worship, etc.'.
SOANE, GEORGE. SPECIMENS OF GERMAN ROMANCES. 3 v. 1826.
TAYLOR, W. HISTORIC SURVEY OF GERMAN POETRY, interspersed with
various translations. 3 v. 1828-30.
WESTALL, W. _Tr._ TALES AND LEGENDS OF SAXONY AND LUSATIA. 1877.
=GERVASE, MONK OF CANTERBURY.= _C._ 1188.
Chronicle of the reigns of Stephen, Henry II., and Richard I. _Ed._
by Stubbs. v. 1-11. Rolls Ser. 1879-80.
=GESTA ROMANORUM.= _C._ 1440. A collection of tales from various
sources, written in Latin. Was the storehouse of material for many
famous writers.
English _Tr._ probably made in Henry VI's time. Printed by Wynkyn de
Worde, 1510-15. _Ed._ 'Early English Versions' in E.E.T.S., 1899.
'A collection of Stories translated from the Latin at end of 13th
century. Many are of Eastern origin, others are anecdotes of Roman
history; but all are more or less transformed by the mediæval
imagination and usually endowed with a Christian moral. Stories of
the Virgin, beast fables, miracles, germs of Shakespeare's plots and
La Fontaine's stories, are among the multifarious contents'.
=GIANNONE, PIETRO.= _b._ 1676, _d._ 1748. =Italian historian.=
HISTORY OF NAPLES.... Translated by Capt. James Ogilvie. 2 v. 1729-31.
=GIRALDI, CINZIO GIAMBATTISTA.= _b._ 1504, _d._ 1573. =Italian
dramatist and littérateur.=
GLI HECATOMITI (or The Hundred Novels).
STORY OF THE MOOR OF VENICE. _Tr._ by G. B. G. C. 1795.
These stories enjoyed a wide vogue in France and England,
and formed matter for the exploitation of every class of
our Elizabethan dramatists or writers of fiction. They have
a particular interest to students of English literature as
having furnished, whether directly or indirectly, the plots
of 'Measure for Measure', and 'Othello'. That of the latter
is said to have reached Shakespeare through the French
translation, while that of the former is probably to be traced
to Wheatstone's 'Promos and Cassandra' (1578), an adaptation
of Cinthio's story, and to his 'Heptameron' (1582), which
contains a direct English translation. To Giraldi must be also
attributed Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Custom of the Country'.
=GIRALDUS DE BARRI= (=CAMBRENSIS=). 12th cent.
WORKS. 7 v. Vols. i-iv. _Ed._ by J. S. Brewer; vols. v-vii. _Ed._ J.
F. Dimock. Rolls Ser. 1861-77.
IRELAND AND WALES. _Tr._ Bohn Lbry. 1849.
HISTORICAL WORKS. _Tr._ and _Ed._ by T. Wright, Bohn Lbry. 1863.
=GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG.= _b._ 1749, _d._ 1832. 'The most
illustrious name in German literature'.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. _Tr._ by Parke Godwin, 1847.
CONVERSATIONS WITH ECKERMANN. _Tr._ by John Oxenford, 1850.
ESSAYS ON ART. _Tr._ by S. G. Wood. [1840.]
FAUSTUS, From the German of Goethe (1790). _Tr._ 1821.
FAUSTUS: from the German of Goethe [The greater part of the 1st
_trs._ in verse and connected by a prose narrative.] _Tr._ 1821.
FAUST, a tragedy in two parts, rendered into English Verse
(1790-1831). 1838.
GOETZ OF BERLICHINGEN WITH THE IRON HAND. An historical drama (1771).
_Tr._ by Rose D'Aguilar, 1795.
HERMAN AND DOROTHEA: a Poem (1796-7). _Tr._ by Thos. Holcroft, 1801.
IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS (1779). _Tr._ by W. Taylor, 1793.
LYRICAL POEMS. _Tr._ by Edgar A. Bowring, 1853.
NOVELLE. _Tr._ 1837.
SHORT POEMS, (_c._ 1798.) _Tr._ 1823.
SORROWS OF WERTHER: a German Story. _Tr._ 1780.
STELLA: a drama. _Tr._ by B. Thompson, 1801.
THE TALE. _Tr._ by Thos. Carlyle, 1877.
THEORY OF COLOURS. _Tr._ by C. L. Eastlake, 1840.
TRAVELS IN ITALY. _Tr._ by A. J. Morrison, 1846.
WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP: a novel (1777). _Tr._ by Thos.
Carlyle, 1824.
WILHELM MEISTER'S TRAVELS (1821). _Tr._ by Thos. Carlyle, 1827.
'The influence of Goethe is not calculable. The effect of
his Faust begins most clearly in Byron's "Manfred"'. He has
influenced English ballad and lyrical poetry, as is seen in
Scott and Coleridge.
'The influence of such a man must be vast. Byron and Shelley
owned it and showed it. Carlyle, as stern a critic as ever
played the pedagogue, is unmixed in his admiration for the man
Goethe, who is to him divine. In his own country his "Werther",
despite its frequent morbidness and its longueurs, determined
the feeling of every sentimentalist. Outside that country his
"Wilhelm Meister" has become almost a textbook in æsthetic
philosophy'.
=GOGOL, N. V.= _b._ 1810, _d._ 1852. =Russian writer.=
TARAS BULBA, St. John's Eve. _Tr._ 1887.
COSSACK TALES. _Tr._ [1860].
HOME LIFE IN RUSSIA. _Tr._ 1854.
TCHITCHIKOFF'S JOURNEYS: OR, DEAD SOULS. _Tr._ J. F. Hapgood. 2 v.
1886.
THE INSPECTOR: A COMEDY. _Tr._ T. Hart-Davies, 1890.
=GOLDONI, CARLO.= _b._ 1707, _d._ 1793. =Italian dramatist.=
THE ACCOMPLISHED MAID: a comic opera. _Tr._ by E. Toms, 1767.
TWO COMEDIES: The Father of a Family, and Pamela. _Tr._ into English
with the Italian original, 1757.
=GONCOURT, JULES DE.= _b._ 1830, _d._ 1870. =EDMOND.= _b._ 1822, _d._
1896. =French miscellaneous writers.=
RENÉE MAUPERIN. _Tr._ 1888.
GERMINIE LACERTEUX. _Tr._ 1887.
=GOTTHELF, J.= _Pseud._ [Albert Bitzius].
ULRIC THE FARM SERVANT. _Tr._ J. Firth, 1886.
WEALTH AND WELFARE. _Tr._ 1866.
=GREEK ANTHOLOGIES.=
COLLECTIONS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY AND FROM THE PASTORAL, ELEGIAC
AND DRAMATIC POETS OF GREECE. By R. Bland and others, 1813.
ANTHOLOGY. TRANSLATIONS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY, with Tales and
miscellaneous poems by Bland and Merivale, 1806.
APPLETON, W. H. _Ed._ GREEK POETS IN ENGLISH VERSE, 1893.
[175 selections from the Greek poets.]
EDMONDS, E. M. _Tr._ GREEK LAYS, IDYLLS AND LEGENDS. 1886.
GARNETT, LUCY M. _Tr._ GREEK FOLK SONGS. 1885.
GELDART, REV. E. M. _Tr._ MODERN GREEK FOLKLORE. 1883.
PALEY, Dr. F. A. _Tr._ FRAGMENTS OF THE GREEK COMIC POETS. 1888.
NEAVES, LORD. _Ed._ GREEK ANTHOLOGY. 1874.
TOMLINSON, GRAHAM, R. SELECTIONS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY. 1889.
WITT, C. _Tr._ MYTHS OF HELLAS. 1883.
'Contains translation of several not generally met with'.
=GRIMM, JAKOB L. C.= _b._ 1785, _d._ 1863. =German jurist and
philologist=; _and_ =Wilhelm C.= _b._ 1786, _d._ 1859.
GERMAN POPULAR STORIES _translated_ (by Edgar Taylor) from the
Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, collected by Grimm from Oral tradition.
[With Illustrations by George Cruikshank, 1823-26.]
_See also under_ German Anthologies.
=GRINGOIRE, PIERRE.= _b._ 1478, _d._ 1544. =French poet and
dramatist.=
THE CASTELL OF LABOUR. _Tr._ [by P. G.] [1506].
=GROTIUS, HUGO DE= (_or_ =HUIG VAN GROOT=). _b._ 1583, _d._ 1645.
=Dutch jurist and theologian.=
THE ILLUSTRIOUS HUGO GROTIUS OF THE LAW OF WARRE AND PEACE (De Jure
Belli et Pacis, 1625): with annotations, III. Parts, and memorials
of the author's life and death. [_Translated_ by Clement Barksdale],
1654.
H. GROTIUS OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE HIGHEST POWERS ABOUT SACRED
THINGS; or THE RIGHT OF THE STATE IN THE CHURCH. Wherein are
contained many judicious discourses, etc. Put into English by C. B.
Larksdale, 1651.
TRUE RELIGION EXPLAINED AND DEFENDED AGAINST YE ARCH ENEMIES THEREOF,
etc. 1632.
TWO DISCOURSES. (1) Of God, and his providence. (2) Of Christ,
His miracles and doctrine. [A translation 'De Veritate Religionis
Christianæ', books 1 and 2.] With annotations and the author's life.
By (C. Barksdale) (1627). 1653.
=GUARINI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA.= _b._ 1538, _d._ 1612. =Italian poet.=
IL PASTOR FIDO: or THE FAITHFULL SHEPHEARD. [A pastoral in five acts
and in verse.] (1585.) _Tr._ out of Italian [by Dymock]. 1602.
Suggested to Fletcher his 'Faithful Shepherdess'.
=GUEVARA, ANTONIO DE.= _b._ 1490, _d._ 1544. =Spanish prelate and
historian.=
A CHRONICLE, CONTEYNING THE LIVES OF THE TEN EMPERORS OF ROME. _Tr._
... by E. Hellowes, 1577.
DIALL OF PRINCES ... Englished out of the French by T. North ... also
a fourth booke entituled 'The Favoured Countess'. 1557.
THE FAMILIAR EPISTLES OF A.G. _Tr._ by E. Hellowes [1574].
SPANISH LETTERS: HISTORICAL, SATYRICAL AND MORAL ... _Tr._ by Mr.
Savage, 1697.
GOLDEN EPISTLES ... gathered ... 1577.
A LOOKING GLASS FOR THE COURT ... drawn into French by A. Alaygre;
and out of French into English by Sir F. Briant, 1575.
THE MOUNT OF CALVARIE. _Tr._ 1595.
A DISPRAISE OF THE LIFE OF A COURTIER. _Tr._ by Sir F. Bryan, 1548.
=GUICCIARDINI, FRANCESCO.= _b._ 1483, _d._ 1540. =Italian historian
and diplomatist.=
THE HISTORIE OF GUICCIARDINI (Storia d'Italia), conteining the Warres
of Italie and other partes, etc. Reduced into English by G. Fenton,
1579.
=GUIZOT, FRANÇOIS PIERRE GUILLAUME.= _b._ 1787, _d._ 1874. =French
statesman and historian.=
CORNEILLE AND HIS TIMES. _Tr._ 1852.
DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. _Tr._ 1849.
ENGLISH REVOLUTION OF 1640. _Tr._ by W. HAZLITT, 1845.
ESSAY ON THE CHARACTER AND INFLUENCE OF WASHINGTON IN THE REVOLUTION
OF THE U.S.A. _Tr._ [G. S. Hillard] 1840.
FRANCE UNDER LOUIS PHILIPPE. _Tr._ 1841-47.
GENERAL HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION IN EUROPE, FROM THE FALL OF THE ROMAN
EMPIRE TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. _Tr._ 1837.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND TO ACCESSION OF QUEEN VICTORIA. _Tr._ 3 v.,
1877-80.
LAST DAYS OF THE REIGN OF LOUIS PHILIPPE. _Tr._ 1867.
LECTURES ON EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION. _Tr._ by P. M. Beckwith, 1837.
SHAKESPEARE AND HIS TIMES. _Tr._ 1852.
=GUY OF WARWICK.= _Ed._ Turnbull, Abbotsford Club, 1840.
Ed. E.E.T.S., 1883-91.
Very popular among the Elizabethans, and is referred to by
Beaumont in his 'Knight of the Burning Pestle'. Quoted by
Chaucer as celebrated in his time, and fragments are preserved
in Garrick's _Collection of Old Plays_. It appeared in French
in 1525.
=HAFIZ= (=SHEMS-ED-DÍN MUHAMMED=). _b._ 1300, _d._ 1388, or 9.
=Persian poet.=
A SPECIMEN OF PERSIAN POETRY: or, ODES OF HAFIZ; with an English
translation and Paraphrase. By John Richardson, 1774.
=HALLER, ALBRECHT VON.= _b._ 1708, _d._ 1777. =Swiss physiologist,
botanist and poet.=
PHYSIOLOGY. _Tr._ Samuel Mihlis. 2 v. 1754.
FIRST LINES OF PHYSIOLOGY. _Tr._ 1779.
THE MODERATE MONARCHY; or, PRINCIPLES OF THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION....
_Tr._ 1849.
A DISSERTATION ON THE SENSIBLE AND IRRITABLE PARTS OF ANIMALS. _Tr._
1755.
=HAUFF, WILHELM.= _b._ 1802, _d._ 1827. =German novelist.=
THE BANISHED; a Swabian historical tale. (Lichtenstein, 1826.) _Tr._
1839.
CARAVAN, THE. _Tr._ [1862].
COLD HEART, THE. NOSE, THE DWARF. THE SEVERED HAND. _Tr._ 1844.
CONSTANT LOVER, THE. _Tr._ J. Nisbet, 1893.
FALSE PRINCE. THE KING OF THE SWANS. _Tr._ 1846.
JOSEPHINE, or THE BEGGAR OF THE PONT DES ARTS. _Tr._ 1844.
LITTLE GLASS MAN. _Tr._ 1893.
LONG NOSE, THE DWARF, AND OTHER TALES. _Tr._ 1881.
LICHTENSTEIN: or, THE SWABIAN LEAGUE. _Tr._ F. Woodley and W. Lander,
1846.
STORY OF A MANIKIN. _Tr._ 1845.
STORKS, THE. FALSE PRINCE. _Tr._ 1875.
SELECT POPULAR TALES. _Tr._ 1845.
MÄRCHEN. _Tr._ 1876.
TALES OF WONDER, or THE INN IN THE BLACK FOREST. 1861.
TALES. THE CARAVAN. THE SHEIK OF ALEXANDRIA. THE INN OF THE SPESSART.
_Tr._ 1886.
THE WINE-GHOSTS OF BREMEN. (Phantasien im Bremer Rathskeller, 1827.)
_Tr._ 1889.
=HAVELOCK.= _Cir._ 1280.
_Ed._ Prof. W. W. Skeat, E.E.T.S., 1868.
HAVELOCK THE DANE. The hero of an Anglo-Danish legend, which was
'rhymed by a Norman into French not many years after the first
crusade, and afterwards retaken for the English by a native poet'.
'The earliest shape' says Morley, 'in which we have the story is that
of a French romance, which was abridged by Geoffroi Gaimar'.
The French version and an English translation, found in the
Bodleian, was published by Madden in 1828.
=HEBREW TALES.=
HURWITZ, HYMAN. HEBREW TALES, selected and Translated from the
writings of the Ancient Hebrew Sages: to which is prefixed an Essay
on the uninspired Literature of the Hebrews, 1826.
=HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH.= _b._ 1770, _d._ 1831. =German
philosopher.=
HEGEL'S ÆSTHETICS. A critical exposition by J. S. Keaney, 1885.
LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. 3 v. _Tr._ E. S. Haldane,
1892-96.
LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY. _Tr._ by J. Sibree, 1852.
LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, TOGETHER WITH A WORK ON THE
PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.... _Tr._ E. B. Speirs and J. B.
Sanderson. 3 v. 1895.
LOGIC OF HEGEL. (1812.) _Tr._ by W. Wallace, etc., 1874.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART ... by Hegel and C. L. Michelet. _Tr._ by W.
Hastie, 1886. [Summary of] HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT. By T. C.
Sanders, 1855.
=HEINE, HEINRICH.= _b._ 1800, _d._ 1856. =German poet and author.=
THE POEMS OF HEINE. Complete. _Tr._ in the original metres, with a
sketch of Heine's life. By E. A. Bowring, 1858.
[Selections.] FOURTEEN POEMS ... from Heine. _Tr._ 1852.
THE ROMANTIC SCHOOL. _Tr._ S. L. Fleishman. 1882.
TRAVEL PICTURES. _Tr._ by F. Storr, 1846.
=HELIODORUS.= _c._ 3rd century A.D.
THEAGENES AND CHARICLEA (Æthiopica) written in Greeke by Heliodorus,
no lesse wittie than pleasant. Englished by T. Underdoune, 1587.
[First printed in Greek at Basle, 1534.]
=HENRY OF HUNTINGDON.= _d._ 1155. =English historian.=
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH (Historia Anglorum B.C. 55 A.D. 1154). _Tr._
by T. Forester, 1853.
=HERACLITUS EPHESII.= B.C. 500. =Greek philosopher.=
THE RIDDLES OF HERACLITUS AND DEMOCRITUS. _Tr._ 1598.
=HERDER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED.= _b._ 1744, _d._ 1803. =German writer.=
THE CID. _Tr._ 1828.
ORIENTAL DIALOGUES. _Tr._ 1801.
OUTLINES OF A PHILOSOPHY OF THE HISTORY OF MEN. _Tr._ by T.
Churchill, 1800.
SPIRIT OF HEBREW POETRY. _Tr._ by J. Marsh, 1833.
=HERODOTUS.= _b._ 484, _d._ 424 B.C. =Greek historian.=
THE FAMOUS HYSTORY OF HERODOTUS. Conteyning the Discourse of Dyvers
Countreys, etc. [_Tr._ by B. R. i.e. Barnaby Rich.] 1584.
=HERTZ, HENRIK.= _b._ 1798, _d._ 1870. =Danish poet and dramatist.=
KING RENE'S DAUGHTER. _Tr._ [Sir] Theodore Martin, 1850.
KING RENE'S DAUGHTER. A Lyric Drama. _Tr._ J. F. Chapman, 1845.
=HESIOD.= _b._ 735 B.C. =Greek didactic poet.=
THE GEORGICS OF HESIOD. _Tr._ by George Chapman, 1618.
WORKS AND DAYS. _Tr._ Geo. Chapman, 1618.
WORKS OF HESIOD. _Tr._ (in verse) by Mr. Cooke, 1728.
Hesiod was imitated by Virgil (Georgics). Served as model for
Tusser's 'Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry', and Dyer and
Green.
=HEYSE, PAUL J. L.= _b._ 1830. =German poet and novelist.=
BARBAROSSA AND OTHER TALES. _Tr._ L. C. S., 1867.
CHILDREN OF THE WORLD. [1873.] _Tr._ 1882.
THE DEAD LAKE. _Tr._ M. Wilson, 1867.
INCURABLE. _Tr._ Mrs. H. W. Eve, 1890.
THE LONELY ONES. _Tr._ 1870.
LA MARCHESA, etc. _Tr._ J. Philips, 1887.
ROMANCE OF A CANONESS. _Tr._ J. M. Percival, 1888.
TWO PRISONERS. _Tr._ 1893.
=HIGDEN, RANULF.= _d._ 1364. =English monk.=
POLYCHRONICON. From the creation to 1352, with the English. _Tr._ of
John Trevisa, 1387 ... v. 1-2 _Ed._ by C. Babington; v. 3-9 _Ed._ by
J. R. Lumby. _Rolls Ser._ 9 v. 1865-86.
[Printed by Caxton in 1482, with Caxton's continuation to 1460.]
=HOFFMANN, ERNEST THEODOR WILHELM.= _b._ 1776, _d._ 1822. =German
story-teller.=
THE DEVIL'S ELIXIR. _Tr._ 1824.
THE ELEMENTARY SPIRIT [_Tr._ from 'Der Elementargeist', by J.
Oxenford], 1844.
THE GOLDEN POT. _Tr._ by T. Carlyle, 1827.
MASTER FLEA. _Tr._ by G. [1880.]
THE SANDMAN. _Tr._ by J. Oxenford, 1844.
WEIRD TALES. _Tr._ by J. T. Bealby, 2v. 1885.
=HOLINSHED, RALPH.= _d._ 1580 (?). _English annalist._
CHRONICLES OF ENGLANDE, SCOTLANDE, AND IRELAND, by Raphaell
Holinshed, 2 v., 1577.
Modern historians have borrowed largely from him.
=HOLY GRAIL.= _Cir._ 1450. English _tr._ [from de Borron] by Lonelich,
pts. i-iv., _Ed._ F. J. Furnivall. E.E.T.S., 1874-77.
ALLITERATIVE ROMANCE OF JOSEPH OF ARIMATHIE, OR THE HOLY GRAIL. _Ed._
J. R. Lumby. 1870.
_Ed._ Furnivall, F. J. Roxburghe Club, 1861-63.
A name given to the cup or vessel from which Christ drank the
wine at the Last Supper. It was fabled to have been preserved
by Joseph of Arimathæa. The 'quest of the graal' is the most
fertile source of adventures to the Knights of the Round Table.
_See also under_ ARTHUR.
=HOMER.= _b._ _c._ 850 B.C. =Greek Epic poet.=
TEN BOOKS OF HOMER'S ILIADES, _translated_ out of French, by A. Hall,
1581.
SEAVEN BOOKES OF THE ILIADES OF HOMER, PRINCE OF POETES, _translated_
according to the Greeke Judgement of his best Commentaries. By Geo.
Chapman, 1598.
THE STRANGE, WONDERFULL AND BLOODY BATTEL BETWEEN FROGS AND MICE....
Paraphrastically done into English Heroycall Verse by W. F(owldes),
1603.
HOMER, PRINCE OF POETS. _Translated_ according to the Greeke in
twelve Bookes of his Iliads by Geo. Chapman. [1610.]
THE WHOLE WORKS OF HOMER, PRINCE OF POETS, IN HIS ILIADES AND
ODYSSES. _Translated_ by Geo. Chapman. [1612.]
After the Bible, the works of Homer have had perhaps the most
lasting influence upon our literature.
=HORACE= (=QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS=). _b._ 65, _d._ 8 B.C. =Latin
lyric and satiric poet.=
ALL THE ODES AND EPODES OF HORACE. Translated into English Verse by
H. Rider, etc., 1638.
CERTAIN SELECTED ODES OF HORACE.... [by J. Ashmore], 1621.
HORACE, HIS ARTE OF POETRIE, EPISTLES, AND SATYRS. _Tr._ by T. Drant,
1567.
A MEDICINABLE MORALE, that is, the Two Bookes of Horace His Satires,
Englished. The Wailyngs of the Prophet Hieremiah done into English
verse. Also Epigrammes by T. Drant. 1566.
ODES [AND FOUR EPODES] OF HORACE.... selected and translated by S^r.
T[homas] H[awkins]. 1625.
Influenced 'cavalier' poets of the 17th century, among whom
was Herrick. His satiric verse largely influenced Pope in his
'Moral Essays' and 'Imitations of Horace', and Dryden in his
satires. Jonson is an imitator of Horace in the way of poetical
epistles and short lyrics.
=HORN, KING.= _See_ KING HORN.
=HUCHOWN.= Pystyl (Epistle) of Swete Susan. _Ed._ Armours, Scottish
Allit. Verse, 1897.
_See_ Morte Arthure, p. 107.
=HUGO, VICTOR-MARIE.= _b._ 1802, _d._ 1885. =French lyric poet and
novelist.=
BY ORDER OF THE KING. (1869). _Tr._ [Mrs. A. C. Steele] 1870.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. _Tr._ D. Pyrke, 1865.
CHRIST AT THE VATICAN. _Tr._ G. Schlatter, 1875.
DRAMATIC WORKS OF VICTOR HUGO. _Tr._ by F. L. Slous and Mrs. N.
Crosland, 1846.
HANS OF ICELAND. (1823.) _Tr._ 1825.
HERNANI. _Tr._ 1830.
HISTORY OF A CRIME. _Tr._ T. H. Joyce and A. Locker. 4 v. 1877-78.
THE HUNCH-BACK OF NOTRE-DAME. (1831.) _Tr._ with a sketch of the life
and writings of the author by F. Schoberl, 1831.
JARGAL. _Tr._ C. E. Wilbour, 1866.
KING'S FOOL, THE. _Tr._ [H. T. Haley] 1842.
LAST DAY OF A CONDEMNED. _Tr._ G. W. M. Reynolds, 1840.
LAUGHING MAN. _Tr._ 1889.
LES ORIENTALES; or, 'EASTERN LYRICS'. Fr. and Eng. versions, by J. N.
Fazakerley, 1879.
LES MISÉRABLES. (1862.) _Tr._ by Sir F. C. L. Wroxall, 1862.
LUCRETIA BORGIA. _Tr._ W. T. Haley, 1842.
NAPOLEON THE LITTLE. _Tr._ 1852.
NINETY-THREE. (1872.) _Tr._ F. L. Benedict and J. H. Friswell. 3 v.
1874.
NOBLE RIVAL; or, THE PRINCE OF THE CONGO. [A _Tr._ of the
Bug-Jargal]. [1845.]
NOTRE DAME DE PARIS. (1831.) _Tr._ W. Hazlitt. 3 v. 1833.
MEMOIRS OF V. H. _Tr._ J. W. Harding, 1899.
POLITICAL POEMS. _Tr._ E[dwin] A[rnold]. 1868.
RUY BLAS; a dramatic drama. Adapted by E. O'Rouke, 1850.
SELECTIONS, CHIEFLY LYRICAL, FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF VICTOR HUGO.
_Tr._ by various authors, now first collected by H. L. Williams. 1846.
SLAVE-KING, THE, from the Bug-Jargal of V. H. _Tr._ 1833.
SONGS OF TWILIGHT. _Tr._ G. W. M. Reynolds. 1836.
THINGS SEEN. _Tr._ 2 v. 1887.
TOILERS OF THE SEA. (1866). _Tr._ W. M. Thomas. 3 v. 1866.
UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH.... (1826-34.) _Tr._ Sir G. Campbell. [1886.]
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. _Tr._ 1864. [An Essay on his works.]
=HUMBOLDT, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH A., BARON VON.= _b._ 1769, _d._ 1859.
=German scientist and traveller.=
AN ACCOUNT OF THE CINCHONA FORESTS OF SOUTH AMERICA. _Tr._ 1821.
COSMOS (1845-8). _Tr._ by Prichard, 1845-8 [2 vols. only.
Discontinued].
COSMOS. _Tr._ by Mrs. Sabine, 1845-6. 4 vols.
OBSERVATIONS AND TRIGONOMETRICAL AND BAROMETRICAL MEASUREMENTS. _Tr._
by J. Black, 1811-12.
POLITICAL ESSAY ON THE KINGDOM OF NEW SPAIN ... with physical
sections and maps. _Tr._ by J. Black, 1811.
=HUNGARIAN ANTHOLOGIES.= _See_ =Austrian=.
=HUON OF BORDEAUX.=
Here begynneth the Boke of duke Huon of Bordeuxe, and of them that
issuyd fro hym. (_Tr._ by Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners.) 1534.
_Also under_ CHARLEMAGNE.
HUON OF BURDEUX. Done into English by Lord Berners. _Ed._ S. L. Lee,
pts. I-III. E.E.T.S. 1882-87.
=HUSS= (_or_ =HUS=), =JOHN=. _b._ 1369, _d._ 1415. =Celebrated
reformer of the Church.=
A SEASONABLE VINDICATION OF THE SUPREAM AUTHORITY AND JURISDICTION OF
CHRISTIAN KINGS, LORDS, PARLIAMENTS AS WELL AS OVER POSSESSIONS, ETC.
Transcribed out of the printed works of John Huss and Mr. John Fox
his Acts and Monuments, by W. Prynne, 1660.
=IBSEN, HENRIK.= _b._ 1828, _d._ 1907. =Norwegian poet and dramatist.=
BRAND (1866). _Tr._ by Wm. Wilson, 1891.
A DOLL'S HOUSE (Et Dukkehjem, 1879). _Tr._ by Wm. Archer, 1879.
[Also as 'Nora.' _Tr._ by T. Weber, 1880.]
THE EMPEROR AND THE GALILEAN. (1873.) A drama in two parts. _Tr._ by
C. Ray, 1876.
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (En Folkefiende, 1882). _Tr._ by Mrs. E.
Marx-Aveling, 1888.
GHOSTS (Gengangere, 1881). _Tr._ 1888.
HEDDA GABLER. _Tr._ by Edmund Gosse, 1891.
JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN. _Tr._ by Wm. Archer, 1897.
THE LADY FROM THE SEA (1888). _Tr._ by Mrs. E. Marx-Aveling, 1889.
THE LEAGUE OF YOUTH (De Unges Forbund, 1869). _Tr._ by Wm. Archer,
1890.
LITTLE EYOLF. _Tr._ W. Archer, 1894.
LOVE'S COMEDY. _Tr._ C. H. Herford, 1900.
THE MASTER BUILDER (Bygmester Solness, 1892). _Tr._ by Edmund Gosse
and Wm. Archer, 1893.
NORA. _Tr._ T. Weber, 1880.
PEER GYNT. _Trs._ by Wm. and Charles Archer, 1892.
THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY (Samfundets Stötter). _Tr._ 1888.
ROSMERSHOLM. _Tr._ L. N. Parker, 1889.
WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN. _Tr._ W. Archer, 1900.
THE WILD DUCK (Vildanen, 1884). _Tr._ by Mrs. F. Archer [1890].
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE NORSE (from Ibsen and Dass), by A.B.S.S.
(member of the British Scandinavian Soc.). [1879.]
=INDIAN: HINDU ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS, Poetical, Fairy Tales,
Folk-Tales and Traditional Literature.=
AMARYAN [= _F. F. Arbuthnot_]. _Tr._ EARLY IDEAS: a group of Hindu
Stories, 1881.
[Short selections from Bidpai, Pancha-Tantra, Hitopadesa,
Kathasarit sagara, etc.]
ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN. _Tr._ INDIAN POETRY. 1881.
[Contains Indian 'Song of Songs' [Gita-Govinda], two books of
the Mahabahrata, and other Oriental poems.]
BURTON, SIR R. F. _Tr._ VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE: TALES OF HINDU
DEVILRY. 1870.
DAY, REV. L. B. _Tr._ FOLK TALES OF BENGAL, 1883.
DUTT, ROMESH C. _Tr._ LAYS OF ANCIENT INDIA, 1894.
EASTWICK, E. B. _Tr. Baital Pachisi. Text and Tr._ 1855.
FORBES, D. _Tr._ BAGH-O-BAHAR. ['Tales of the Four Darweshes']. 1851.
FRERE, M. _Tr._ OLD DECCAN DAYS: OR, OLD FAIRY LEGENDS, 1868.
GOVER, C. E. _Tr._ FOLK-SONGS OF SOUTHERN INDIA, 1872.
GRAY, JAMES. _Tr._ ANCIENT PROVERBS AND MAXIMS FROM BURMA. (Oriental
Ser.) 1887.
GRIFFITH, RALPH T. H. _Tr._ THE HYMNS OF THE RIG-VEDA, 4 v., 1889-92.
JACOBS, JOS. _Ed._ INDIAN FAIRY TALES, 1892.
[Contains useful analytic and comparative notes.]
KINGSCOTE, MRS. H. _and_ N. SASTRI. _Tr._ TALES OF THE SUN, OR
FOLK-LORE OF SOUTHERN INDIA, 1890.
KNOWLES, J. H. _Tr._ FOLK-TALES OF BENGAL, 1868.
[Fairy tales of South India.]
KNOWLES, J. H. _Tr._ FOLK-TALES OF KASHMIR, 1888.
MATHEWS, CORNELIUS. _Tr._ INDIAN FAIRY BOOK. From the original
legends, 1869.
MÜLLER, F. MAX. _Ed. Tr._ HITOPADESA. 1864-65.
NATÊSA SÂSTRÎ, P. _Tr._ FOLKLORE OF SOUTHERN INDIA, 3 pts. in 1 v.
[1890].
[Trs. of twenty-four Tamil Popular Tales.]
RAJU RAMASWANI. _Tr._ INDIAN FABLES. 1888.
RAVERTY, H. _Tr._ THE POETRY OF THE AFGHANS. 1863.
SCHIEFNER, A. Tibetan Tales derived from Indian sources. _Tr._ W. R.
S. Ralston, 1882.
STOKES, MAIVE. _Tr._ INDIAN FAIRY TALES, 1869.
SWYNNERTON, CHAS. _Tr._ INDIAN NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENTS, 1893.
[A collection of eighty-five folk-tales from the Upper Indus.]
TEMPLE, R. C. LEGENDS OF THE PUNJAB, 2 v., 1884-5.
WILLIAMS, SIR MONIER. _Tr._ INDIAN WISDOM, 1875.
[Forms a compendious and very interesting summary of Sansk.
literature.]
WILSON, H. H. _Tr._ SELECT SPECIMENS OF THE THEATRE OF THE HINDUS, 2
v., 1835.
=ISAEUS.= 5th century B.C. =Greek orator.=
The Speeches of Isaeus in causes concerning the Laws of Succession to
Property at Athens.... _Tr._ Sir W. Jones, 1779.
=ISLA, J. FATHER.= _b._ 1703, _d._ 1781. =Spanish author.=
HISTORY OF THE FAMOUS PREACHER, FRIAR GERUND DE CAMPANZAS. [1758.]
_Tr._ by [Thomas Nugent], 1772.
'The best picture of Spanish manners of the 18th century'.
=ISOCRATES.= _b._ B.C. 436, _d._ 338. =Greek orator.=
The Orations (21) and Epistles (9) of Isocrates. _Tr._ by Jos.
Dinsdale. Revised by Rev. Mr. Young. 1752.
THE DOCTRINE OF PRINCES.... _Tr._ Syr Thomas Eliot. [1534.]
A PERFITE LOOKING GLASSE FOR ALL ESTATES AS CONTAINED IN THREE
ORATIONS OF MORALL INSTRUCTIONS. _Tr._ [Tho. Forrest] 1580.
THE GOOD ADMONISHION OF THE SAGE ISOCRATES TO YOUNG DEMONICUS. _Tr._
R. Nuttall, 1585.
ARCHIDAMUS, or THE COUNCELL OF WARRE, being 2,000 years old. _Tr._ T.
Barnes, 1624.
=ISUMBRAS.= _See_ =Sir Isumbras=.
=ITALIAN ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.=
CRANE, THOS. FREDERICK. ITALIAN POPULAR TALES, 1885.
[An admirable collection, with bibliography.]
BUSK, R. H. _Tr._ THE FOLK SONGS OF ITALY, with contributions by
Comparetti, 1886.
PAINTER, WILLIAM. 1540-94. PALACE OF PLEASURE. _Tr._ 1566-67. Stories
translated from Boccaccio, Bandello, Ser Giovanni, Straparola,
Guevara, Marguerite of Navarre, etc. The Elizabethan dramatists
quarried many of their plots here, e.g. 'Romeo and Juliet', 'All's
Well that Ends Well', and 'Measure for Measure', were founded on
these stories.
ROSCOE, THOS. ITALIAN NOVELISTS, 4 v., 1825. ITALIAN TALES, 1824.
Selections from the _Novelle Antiche_, Boccaccio, Sacchetti,
Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, Massuccio, Sabadino degli Arienti,
Sozzini, Agnolo Firenzuola, Gentile Sermini, Giovanni
Brevio, Girolamo Parabosco, Giovambattista Giraldi Cinthio,
Anton-Francesco, Grazzini, Ortensio Lands, Straparola,
Bandello, Sansovino, Anton-Francesco Doni, Erizzo, Ascanio Mori
da Ceno, Malespini, Maiolino, Bisaccioni, Colombo, Bargagli,
Bottari, Capacelli, Soave, Altanesi, Magalotti, Lodoli, Maria
Manni, Girolamo, Padovani Luigi Sanvitale, Carlo Gozzi, Luigi
Bramieri, Robustiano Gironi.
STRETTELL, ALMA. _Tr._ SPANISH AND ITALIAN FOLK SONGS. 1837.
=JAPANESE ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.=
=Poetical, Fairy Tales, Folk-Tales and Traditional Literature.=
GRIFFIS, WM. E. _Tr._ JAPANESE FAIRY WORLD. Stories from the
Wonder-lore of Japan, 1887.
CHAMBERLAIN, B. H. THE CLASSICAL POETRY OF THE JAPANESE, 1880.
DICKENS, F. V. _Tr._ THE OLD-BAMBOO-HEWER'S STORY, 1888.
[The earliest of the Japanese romances, written in the 10th
cent.]
DICKENS, F. V. HYAK NIN FS'SHIM, 1866.
[Selections of Japanese odes, with trs. and notes.]
JAPANESE FAIRY TALES. _Tr._ 1888.
MITFORD, ALGERNON B. F. _Tr._ TALES OF OLD JAPAN, 1871.
=JEAN D'ARRAS, or JEHAN.= 1360. =French novelist.=
MELUSINE, 1382-1394. _Tr._ A. K. Donald, E.E.T.S., 1895.
English version in prose is of cir. 1500.
=JOINVILLE, JEAN DE.= _b._ 1224, _d._ 1319. =French chronicler.=
MEMOIRS OF JOHN LORD DE JOINVILLE ... containing a history of part of
the life of Louis IX.... _Tr._ F. Johnes. 2 v. 1807.
=JOKAI, MAURUS.= _b._ 1825, _d._ 1904. =Hungarian novelist and
dramatist.=
BLACK DIAMONDS (1870). _Tr._ 1896.
DEBTS OF HONOUR. _Tr._ by A. B. Yollond, 1900.
DOCTOR DUMANY'S WIFE. _Tr._ 1891.
EYES LIKE THE SEA. (1890.) _Tr._ R. N. Bain, 1893.
GREEN BOOK; FREEDOM UNDER THE SNOW. _Tr._ 1897.
HALIL THE PEDLAR. A fehér rozsa (1854). _Tr._ 1901.
HUNGARIAN NABOB (1856). _Tr._ 1898.
LION OF JANINA (1852). 1897.
MIDST THE WILD CARPATHIANS. _Tr._ 1894.
NAMELESS CASTLE. _Tr._ 1898.
PRETTY MICHAL (1877). _Tr._ 1892.
TIMAR'S TWO WORLDS. _Tr._ 1880.
TOWER OF DAGO. _Tr._ 1899.
=JOLYOT DE CRÉBILLON= (=CLAUDE PROSPER=). _See_ =Crébillon=.
JOSEPH OF ARIMATHIE. Alliterative Romance of, or Holy Grail: _Ed._
Prf. W. W. Skeat, 1871.
_See also under_ HOLY GRAIL.
=JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS.= _b._ 37, _d._ 95. =Jewish historian.=
THE FAMOUS ... WORKES OF JOSEPHUS. _Tr._ by T. Lodge, 1602.
HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS. _Tr._ by Thos. Lodge, 1602.
=JOUBERT, JOSEPH.= _b._ 1754, _d._ 1824. =French pensée writer.=
PENSÉES OF JOUBERT. _Tr._ H. Attwell, 1877. (Edited by Châteaubriand.)
=JULIAN.= _b._ 331, _d._ 363. =Roman Emperor.=
SELECT WORKS OF THE EMPEROR JULIAN AND SOME PIECES OF THE SOPHIST
LIBANIUS. 2 v. _Tr._ 1784.
TWO ORATIONS OF THE EMPEROR J., ONE OF THE SUN, AND THE OTHER OF THE
MOTHER OF THE GODS. _Tr._ [T. Taylor] 1793.
THE ARGUMENTS OF THE EMPEROR JULIAN AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. _Tr._ T.
Taylor, 1809.
=JUSTINIAN.= _b._ 483, _d._ 565. =Emperor of the east.=
JUSTINIAN. Englished by Sir Henry Holcroft, 1653.
This work is based upon that of Gaius, and is familiar to
lawyers under the name of Justinian's Institutes.
=JUVENAL= (=DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS=). _b._ 55 A.D. =Latin satiric
poet.=
FIFTH SATYR. _Tr._ by Geo. Chapman, 1629.
FIRST SIX SATYRS. _Tr._ by R. Stapylton, 1644.
A PARAPHRASTICAL TRANSCRIPT OF JUVENAL'S TENTH SATYRE, TOGETHER WITH
THE TRAGICAL NARRATION OF VIRGINIA'S DEATH, interserted by W. B.
(arkstead), 1617.
THE SATIRES OF D. J. JUVENALIS.... _Tr._ ... by Mr. Dryden, 1693.
SIXTEEN SATYRS, OR A SURVEY OF THE MANNERS AND ACTIONS OF MANKIND.
_Tr._ in verse by Sir R. Stapylton, 1647.
TWO FIRST SATYRS OF JUVENAL. _Tr._ by John Biddle, 1634.
Influenced Johnson in 'London' and 'Vanity of Human Wishes.' It
is Juvenal and Horace who have served as models for Dryden and
Pope for Hall and Butler, and for Byron in his 'English Bards
and Scotch Reviewers'. Churchill's Satires are Juvenal's in
spirit throughout.
=KÁLIDÁSA.= B.C. 50 (?). =Hindu poet.= '=The Shakespeare of India='.
BIRTH OF THE WAR GOD. A poem by K. _Tr._ by R. T. H. Griffith, 1853.
KÁLIDÁSA'S SAKUNTALA. _Translated_ by Sir Wm. Jones, 1789.
KÁLIDÁSA'S MEGHADUTA. THE MEGHADUTA: OR, CLOUD MESSENGER.... _Tr._ by
H. H. Wilson, 1813.
KÁLIDÁSA'S NALODAYA: OR, HISTORY OF KING NALA. _Tr._ by W. Yates,
1844.
SAKOONATALÂ. _Tr._ by Monier Williams, 1854.
VIKRAMORVASI. _Tr._ by E. B. Cowell, 1850.
In this version the metrical portions of the original play were
for the first time rendered into English verse.
=KAMPE, J. H. German writer.=
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON. _Tr._ H. B. Paull, 1888.
THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. _Tr._ 1799-1800. [For children.]
ELEMENTARY DIALOGUES FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF CHILDREN. _Tr._ Mr.
Seymour. 1792.
THE NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE. _Tr._ 4 v., 1788.
ROBINSON THE YOUNGER; or, THE NEW CRUSOE. _Tr._ [R. Hick] 1855.
CORTES: or, THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. _Tr._ 1800.
LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. _Tr._ [1815?].
=KANT, IMMANUEL.= _b._ 1724, _d._ 1804. =German philosopher.= One of
the profoundest meta-physicians that have ever lived. Founder of the
Critical (popularly known as the Transcendental) school of philosophy.
CRITICK; an Investigation of Pure Reason (1788). _Tr._ by Haywood,
with notes, 1838.
ELEMENTS OF THE CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY, containing a concise account
of its origin and tendency; a view of the Works by its Founder, and
a Glossary, with three Essays by J. C. Adelung. _Tr._ by A. F. M.
Willich, 1798.
ENQUIRY INTO THE PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, AND INTO THE
THEODICY. _Tr._ by J. Richardson, 1819.
ESSAYS AND TREATISES ON MORAL, POLITICAL, AND VARIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL
SUBJECTS. From the German. _Tr._ by William Richardson, 1798-9.
LOGIC. _Tr._ by J. Richardson, 1819.
METAPHYSICS OF MORALS. _Tr._ 1799.
PROLEGOMENA TO EVERY FUTURE METAPHYSIC. _Tr._ by J. Richardson, 1819.
RELIGION WITHIN THE BOUNDARY OF PURE REASON. _Tr._ by Semple, 1838.
The works of K. have had a very great effect upon English
philosophy and thought. For an excellent popular notice of the
influence exerted by Kant's philosophy the reader is referred
to De Quincey's chapter on German literature in the volume
of his works entitled 'Life and Manners'. Many interesting
observations will also be found in Madame de Staël's 'Germany',
Part III, Chap. VI.
=KEMPIS, THOMAS À=. _b._ 1379, _d._ 1471. =German ascetic writer.=
A DEVOUT AND GOSTELY TREATISE OF YA IMYTACION AND FOLOWYNGE OF CRYST
(1415-24), compiled in Latin by J. Jerson. _Tr._ by Wyllyam Atkynson,
1502.
=KIELLAND, A. L.= _b._ 1849. =Norwegian Author.=
GARMAN AND WORSE. _Tr._ W. W. Kettlewell, 1884.
SKIPPER WORSE. _Tr._ Earl of Ducie, 1885.
NORSE TALES AND SKETCHES. _Tr._ R. L. Cassie, 1896.
TALES OF TWO COUNTRIES. _Tr._ W. Archer, 1891.
=KING HORN.= _C._ 1230-40.
_Ed._ Bannatyne Club, 1845.
_Ed._ Lumby, J. R., and G. H. McKnight, E.E.T.S. xiv. 1866.
King Horn belongs to the Anglo-Danish cycle of romance, with also Guy
of Warwick, and Colbrond the Dane.
=KISFALUDY, SANDOR= (=ALEXANDER=). _b._ 1772, _d._ 1844. =Hungarian
dramatist.=
ILKA, THE CAPTIVE MAIDEN AND OTHER STORIES. [Adapted from the
Hungarian of K. K. and others, by S. G.] 1892.
=KLOPSTOCK, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB.= _b._ 1724, _d._ 1803. =German poet.=
THE MESSIAH, A POEM. xiv. books. _Tr._ into English prose by Mrs. and
Mr. J. Collyer, 1763.
=KNIGHT OF THE SWANNE, HISTORY OF HELYAS.= _Tr._ 1512.
From French prose romance, printed 1504. Legend very old.
Chevelere Assigne, an alliterative poem from a French romance
of 30,000 verses.
See also p. 37.
=KORAN, or ALKORAN.=
The sacred book of the Mohammedans, written about A.D. 610
by Mohammed, and published about 634 by his successor, Abu
Bekr. Its contents are believed by Mohammedans to have been
communicated to Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel during a period
of twenty-three years. The book was first _translated_ by
George Sale in 1734.
A LYTELL TREATYSE OF THE TURKES LAWES CALLED ALCORAN; AND ALSO IT
SPEAKS OF MAHOMET THE NYGROMANCER. Pr. W. de Worde. n.d.
ALCORAN OF MAHOMET. (By Alex. Ross.) 1642.
=KÖRNER, KARL T.= _b._ 1791, _d._ 1813. =German poet.=
HARP, THE. _Tr._ 1826.
HEDWIG; or, LOVE AND GRATITUDE. A drama. _Tr._ Mrs. B. Davenay, 1878.
LIFE AND SELECTIONS FROM HIS POEMS, TALES AND DRAMAS. _Tr._
Richardson, 1827.
LYRE AND THE SWORD. (1814.) _Tr._ 1834.
ROSAMOND. (1812.) _Tr._ 1830.
SONGS AND BALLADS. _Tr._ of Uhland, Körner, Bürger, etc. _Tr._ 1838.
WOLDEMAR. _Tr._ 1805.
=KRILOFF, I. A.= _b._ 1768, _d._ 1844. =Russian poet.=
KRILOFF AND HIS FABLES. _Tr._ W. R. S. Ralston, 1869.
=LA BRUYÈRE, JEAN DE.= _b._ 1639, _d._ 1696. =French writer and
moralist.=
THE MORAL CHARACTERS OF THEOPHRASTUS (1684). _Tr._ 1713.
'The Greek writer [Theophrastus] ... has been incomparably
surpassed by his imitator'.--Hallam.
=LA CALPRENÈDE.= _See_ =COSTES=.
=LA FAYETTE, DE.= _Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier._ _b._
1634, _d._ 1693. =French authoress.=
PRINCESS OF CLEVES.... Written ... by the greatest wits of France,
1688.
PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER, 1666.
ZAYDE [1670]; a Spanish History. Written by Monsieur Segrais [and the
Countess de La Fayette], 1678.
Her 'Zayde' and the 'Princess of Cleves' were the first
French works of fiction that truly represented the manners
of the upper classes. Her style was very closely followed by
Richardson in 'Clarissa Harlowe'.
=LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE.= _b._ 1621, _d._ 1695. =French fabulist and
writer of 'Contes'.=
FABLES AND TALES IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH, now first translated, with
the Author's life (1668). 1734.
'It was primarily along the Greek channel that the fables were
derived, if not all the matter, at least the inspiration; for
the fables of La Fontaine, and the English fables of Gay,
together with all the collection which have been printed, were
all taken from the Greek'.
Dryden, Gay and Prior were all greatly influenced by the works
of La Fontaine.
=LAI LE FREINE.= From the French of Marie de France. _Cir._ 14th
century.
_Ed._ Weber, Metrical Romances, 1810.
=LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE DE.= _b._ 1792, _d._ 1869. =French poet, orator
and historian.=
HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1848. _Tr._ 1846.
HISTORY OF THE GIRONDISTS, OR PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF THE PATRIOTS OF THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION (1840). _Tr._ by H. T. Ryde, 1847.
HISTORY OF THE RESTORATION OF MONARCHY IN FRANCE. _Tr._ by Captn.
Rafter, 1851-3.
POETICAL MEDITATIONS AND RELIGIOUS HARMONIES (1820). _Tr._ by the
Rev. W. Pulling, with a biographical sketch, 1849.
RAPHAEL, OR PAGES OF THE BOOK OF LIFE AT TWENTY. _Tr._ 1849.
=LAMENNAIS, FÉLICITÉ ROBERT DE.= _b._ 1782, _d._ 1854. =French
theologian and journalist.=
ESSAY ON INDIFFERENCE TO RELIGION. 4 v. (1817-23.) _Tr._ Lord Stanley
of A., 1895.
WORDS OF A BELIEVER. _Tr._ 1834.
MODERN SLAVERY. _Tr._ W. J. Linton, 1840.
THE BOOK OF THE PEOPLE. _Tr._ J. H. Lorymer, 1838.
=THE LAMENT OF DEOR=, or, =The Minstrel's Consolation=. _Ed. Tr._
from Cook and Tinker's Select _Tr._ from English Poetry, 1902.
=LANCELOT OF THE LAIK.= _Cir._ 1500. _Ed._ Prf. W. W. Skeat,
E.E.T.S., 1865.
_Ed._ Stevenson, Maitland Club, 1839.
_See also_ Weston, J. L. Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac. Studies upon
its Origin, Development and Position in the Arthurian Cycle, 1901.
=LAND OF COCKAIGNE= [13th century].
_Ed._ F. J. Furnival--_in his_ Early English Poems and Lives of
Saints, 1862.
A satire on the corruptions of the Condt, painting a 'Land of
the Kitchen', a fool's paradise.
=LANGLAND, WILLIAM= (=OR LANGLEY=).
BOOK OF PIERS PLOWMAN, 1362-1377. _Ed._ Skeat, in its three forms.
E.E.T.S. 1867-69-73.
RICHARD THE REDELESS. _Ed._ Skeat. E.E.T.S., 1873.
'The Vision of Piers Plowman' is a satire directed against the
vices of the Clergy and other professions.
=LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANÇOIS, DUC DE.= _b._ 1613, _d._ 1680. =French
maxim-writer.=
MORAL MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS (1665) ... now made English, 1694.
=LASCO DE LA VEGA=, _See_ =Garcilasco de la Vega=, _Surnamed_ '=The
Inca='.
=LA TOUR LANDRY.= _Ab._ 1440. _Ed._ T. Wright. 1868.
=LAWS OF INE= (=King of West Saxons, 688-726=).
THE EARLIEST LAWS OF WESSEX. Reissued by King Alfred. _Ed._, B.
Thorpe, 'Ancient Laws and Institutes of England', text and _tr._,
1840.
=LAYAMON.= 1200. =English priest.=
LAYAMON'S BRUT, OR CHRONICLE OF BRITAIN: a poetical semi-Saxon
paraphrase of the Brut of Wace. [With a tr.] _Ed._ by F. Madden, 3
v., 1847.
This work is important as the principal literary monument in
the English language of that period.
The poet 'thrummed' three books into one in his work, namely,
Wace's 'Geste des Bretons' (1155), his chief source, Baeda's
work in his own Latin, and Alfred's translation of the
same. The author has the distinction of being the first to
commemorate King Arthur in English verse.
=LAZARILLO DE TORMES.= [1554.]
THE PLEASAUNT HISTORIE OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES, A SPANIARDE ... draune
out of Spanish by David Rowland ... 1586.
'This little work may be thought by some of a low and trifling
nature: but it is the first of a race of comic romances. For
wit, spirit and inexhaustible resources ... there is nothing
like the Spanish rogue'.
'The first novela picaresca, or rogue story'. The appearance
of this work (1554) marks the date at which such stories first
took shape as a distinct branch of the novel, to be known as
the 'picaroon' or 'picaresque'. From that time, for nearly
a century, the 'Novelas de Picaros' are a chief product of
Spanish writing. Chief among the progeny of 'Lazarillo' are
'Guzman de Alfarache' (1599), a sequel to 'L' itself by Luma
(1620), and 'The Life of Buscon' by Quevedo (1626). All these
were quickly translated into English. In England the effect
of the picaresque novel first appears in the 'Jack Wilton' of
Nash. In France the type passed through the hands of Scarron
and Le Sage, whose 'Diable Boiteau' and 'Gil Blas' were
destined to eclipse the fame of the Spanish originals. From
the examples of France this species broke out in England with
the 'Moll Flanders' and 'Colonel Jack' of Defoe, the 'Joseph
Andrews' of Fielding, the 'Roderick Random' and 'Peregrine
Pickle' of Smollett. In the nineteenth century it finds its
congeners in the 'Three Musketeers' of Dumas and in the works
of several minor English novelists. 'Mr. Jingle does not
essentially differ from this type'.
=LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE.= _See_ =Fontenelle=.
=LE FREINE.= _See_ =Lai Le Freine=.
=LEIBNITZ, VON, GOTTFRIED WILHELM=, _Baron._ _b._ 1646, _d._ 1716.
=German philosopher and mathematician.=
A COLLECTION OF PAPERS WHICH PASSED BETWEEN ... LEIBNITZ AND DR.
CLARKE ... RELATING TO THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND
RELIGION, 1717.
A SYSTEM OF THEOLOGY (1686).... _Tr._ with an introduction and notes
by C. W. Russell.
'We may trace the thoughts of Pope's "Essay on Man" back
through Bolingbroke's prose to the philosophic writings of
Leibnitz'.
Hallam says, 'No one can read without perceiving that of all
the early geologists Leibnitz came nearest to the theories
which are most received in the English school of this day'.
=LEOPARDI, GIACOMO.= _b._ 1798, _d._ 1837. =Italian poet and
essayist.=
ESSAYS AND DIALOGUES.... _Tr._ by C. Edwardes, 1882.
POEMS. _Tr._ by Townsend, 1888.
=LERMONTOV= (_or_ =LERMONTOFF=), =MIKHAIL YUREVITCH.= _b._ 1814, _d._
1841. =Russian poet.=
THE CIRCASSIAN BOY. _Tr._ [into English verse] by S. S. Comart, 1875.
THE DEMON, a poem. _Tr._ by A. C. Stephen, 1875.
A HERO OF OUR TIME. (1839.) _Tr._ 1854.
=LE SAGE, ALAIN RENÉ.= _b._ 1668, _d._ 1747. =French romancer and
essayist.=
THE BATCHELOR OF SALAMANCA (1736-8). _Tr._ by Mr. Lockman, 1737.
THE DEVIL UPON TWO STICKS (Asmodeus). _Tr._ 1708.
HISTORY OF GIL BLAS OF SANTILLANE (1715-35). _Tr._ 1732-7.
Defoe, Fielding and Smollett were all influenced by Le Sage,
whom they imitated.
=LESSING, GOTTHOLD E.= _b._ 1729, _d._ 1781. =German writer.=
Regarded as the father of the new era of German Literature.
THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF G. E. LESSING. _Tr._ ... Edited by E. Bell,
1878.
FABLES FROM THE GERMAN. _Tr._ by J. Richardson, 1773.
EMILIA GALOTTÉ.... _Tr._ by B. Thompson, 1801.
[1] LAOCOON; AN ESSAY, OR THE LIMITS OF POETRY AND PAINTING. _Tr._ by
Wm. Ross, 1836.
NATHAN THE WISE; a Dramatic Poem, 1779. _Tr._ by Wm. Taylor, 1791.
SCHOOL OF HONOUR. _Tr._ 1799.
THREE COMEDIES. _Tr._ by J. J. Holroyd, 1838.
[1] 'Despite its errors and shortcomings, this famous treatise
on the "Boundaries of Poetry and Painting", a work of criticism
in the philosophy of the beautiful, has perhaps influenced
more minds than any other work on æsthetics except those of
Aristotle and Longinus'. To countless others besides Macaulay
it has been their first illumination of the everlasting
principles of beauty.
=LEWIS OF GRENADA, F.= =Spanish writer.=
OF PRAYER AND MEDITATION. _Tr._ by [Richard Hopkins] 1582.
THE SINNER'S GUYDE. Digested into English by Francis Meres, 1598.
GRANADA'S DEVOTIONS. Englished by F. Meres, 1598.
A MOST FRAGRANT FLOWER; or, devoute Exposition of the Lord's Prayer.
_Tr._ by J. G., 1598.
A MEMORIAL OF A CHRISTIAN LIFE. _Tr._ [by Richard Hopkins], 1599.
A SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE CONTAINING A RULE OF LIVE WEL, WITH DIVERS
PRAIERS AND MEDITATIONS. _Tr._ [by Rich. Gibbons] 1599.
=LIBANIUS SOPHISTA.= _b._ 314, _d._ 400. _See_ =Julian=.
=LIE, JONAS L.= _b._ 1833. =Norwegian poet and novelist.=
BARQUE FUTURE. _Tr._ 1876.
COMMODORE'S DAUGHTER. _Tr._ 1892.
LITTLE GREY, THE PONY OF NORDFJORD. _Tr._ Arbuthnott, 1873.
NIOBE. _Tr._ 1890.
NORSE LOVE STORY. _Tr._ 1876.
PILOT AND HIS WIFE. (1874.) _Tr._ 1876.
VISIONARY, THE. _Tr._ J. Muir, 1894.
WEIRD TALES FROM THE NORTHERN SEAS. _Tr._ 1893.
=LINNÆUS=, (_or_ =LINNÉ=) =CARL=. _b._ 1707, _d._ 1778. =Swedish
botanist.=
ANIMAL KINGDOM. _Translated_, with Additions, by R. Kerr, 1792.
DISSERTATION ON THE SEXES OF PLANTS. _Tr._ by Sir J. E. Smith, 1786.
FUNDAMENTA ENTOMOLOGIÆ; OR AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF
INSECTS. _Tr._ by Wm. Curtis, 1772.
GENERIC AND SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION OF BRITISH PLANTS. TO WHICH ARE
PREFIXED AN ENTOMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY, AND A GLOSSARY. _Tr._ by J.
Jenkinson, 1775.
INSTITUTES OF BOTANY, containing descriptions of all the known genera
of plants. _Tr._ by C. Milne, 1770.
MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS RELATING TO NATURAL HISTORY, HUSBANDRY AND
PHYSICK. _Tr._ from the Latin by B. Stillingfleet, 1759.
PRINCIPIA BOTANICA: OR A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO THE SEXUAL BOTANY OF
LINNÆUS. _Tr._ 1787.
REFLECTIONS ON THE STUDY OF NATURE. _Tr._ [by J. E. Smith] 1785.
=LISLE, C. J. ROUGET DE.= _b._ 1760, _d._ 1836. =French poet.=
MARSEILLAISE. (1792.) _Tr._ 1793.
=LIVY= (=TITUS LIVIUS=). _b._ 59 B.C., _d._ 17 A.D. =Roman historian.=
THE HISTORIE OF ... ANNIBALL AND SCIPIO. _Tr._ out of T. Livius and
other authoures, 1544.
THE ORATOR: HANDLING A HUNDRED SEVERALL DISCOURSES, ETC. Some of the
Arguments being drawne from T. Livius and other ancient writers, 1596.
THE ROMANE HISTORIE. Also the Breviaries of L. Florus, with a
chronologie of the whole Historie, and the Topographie of Rome in the
Old Time. _Tr._ by P. Holland, 1600.
=LONGUS.= 5th century. =Greek sophist.=
DAPHNIS AND CHLOE. _Tr._ by Angel Day [1587].
'This pastoral romance played no small part in the conception
of the French sentimental romances of the seventeenth century,
beginning with D'Urfé and carried on by Scudéry and La
Calprenède. This work contains the new element of pastoral
setting and description, and some novelty of simple sentiment'.
_Tr. by Day from Amyot's tr._
=LOTI, PIERRE. Louis Marie Viaud.= _b._ 1850.
MADAME CHRYSANTHÈME. _Tr._ L. Ensor, [1888].
RARAHU; or, THE MARRIAGE OF LOTI. _Tr._ C. Bell, 1890.
MY BROTHER YRÈS. _Tr._ M. P. Fletcher, 1887.
AN ICELAND FISHERMAN. _Tr._ 1888.
CHILD ROMANCE. _Tr._ C. Bell, 1891.
PHANTOM FROM THE EAST. _Tr._ J. E. Gordon, 1892.
BOOK OF PITY AND DEATH. _Tr._ T. P. O'Connor, 1892.
ROMANCE OF A SPAHI. _Tr._ M. L. Watkins, 1890.
=LUCAN.= _b._ 39, _d._ 65. =Roman epic poet.=
LUCAN'S FIRST BOOK OF THE CIVIL WAR BETWEEN POMPEY AND CÆSAR.
_Translated_ line for line by Chas. Marlowe, 1600.
PHARSALIA. Containing the Civill Warres between Cæsar and Pompey.
=Tr.= into English verse by Sir Arthur Gorges, Kt.... 1614.
Lucan and 'Stace' (Statius) formed the chief Latin reading of
Chaucer's time. Addison's 'Campaign', and Drayton's 'Barons'
War' are also clearly influenced by Lucan.
=LUCIAN.= _b._ 125, _d._ 180. =Greek author.=
CERTAIN SELECT DIALOGUES OF LUCIAN, TOGETHER WITH HIS TRUE HISTORIE.
_Translated_ by F. Hicks. Also a Life of Lucian gathered out of his
own writings. By F. H[ickes], 1634.
NECROMANTIA: a Dialog of the Poet Lucyan for the Tantsaye Faymyd for
a mery Pastyme. _Tr._ [1537].
PLEASANT DIALOGUES AND DRAMMA'S SELECTED OUT OF LUCIAN, ERASMUS, ETC.
_Tr._ by Thos. Heywood, 1637.
THE WORKS OF LUCIAN. _Tr._ by Ferrand Spence, 1684.
Influenced Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels', 'Tale of a Tub' and
'The Battle of the Books' and the works of Sterne. Sterne is
sometimes known as the 'English Lucian'.
=LUCILIUS, GAIUS.= _b._ 148 B.C., _d._ 100 B.C. =Roman satiric poet.=
THE FRAGMENTS OF LUCILIUS literally translated into English Prose ...
by L. Evans, 1848.
=LUCRETIUS= (=TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS=). _b._ 95, _d._ 52 B.C. =Latin
poet.=
AN ESSAY ON THE FIRST BOOK OF T. LUCRETIUS CARUS, with a metrical
Version and Notes, by John Evelyn, Esqre., 1656.
LUCRETIUS DE RERUM NATURA, with a free prose English version, 1743.
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS. _Tr._ into English verse by Thomas Creech,
1683.
Influence of Lucretius seen in Pope's 'Essay on Man'. Formed
favourite reading of Shelley, Wordsworth and Tennyson.
Dyer's 'Fleece' and Akenside's 'Pleasures of the Imagination'
are the outcome of the study of Lucretius and the 'Georgics' of
Virgil.
=LUTHER, MARTIN.= _b._ 1483, _d._ 1546. =Leader of the Reformation in
Germany.=
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER, now first _tr._ from the original by
Rev. J. P. Lawson, 1836.
A BOKE MADE BY A CERTAYNE GREAT CLERKE AGAYNST THE NEW IDOLE AND OLDE
DEVYLL, WHICH OF LATE TYME IN MISNIA SHOULD HAVE BEN CANONISED FOR A
SAYNT, 1534.
COLLOQUIA MENSALIA (TABLE TALK), OR DIVINE DISCOURSES AT HIS TABLE,
ETC., collected first together by Dr. A. Lauterbach.... _Tr._ out of
High German ... by Captn. Henrie Bell, 1652.
A FRUITEFULL AND GODLY EXPOSITION AND DECLARACION OF THE KYNGDOM OF
CHRIST. _Tr._ by [W. Lynne], 1548.
M. LUTHER'S EXPOSITION OF THE 23RD PSALM. _Tr._ by Miles Coverdale,
1537.
ON THE CHIEFE ARTICLES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAYTHE, ETC. _Tr._ 1548.
THIRTIE-FOUR SPECIAL AND CHOSEN SERMONS, ETC., Englisshed by W. Gace,
1581.
A TREATISE TOUCHING THE LIBERTIE OF A CHRISTIAN. _Tr._ by J. Bell,
1579.
'As a translator of the Bible into the Upper-Saxon dialect, and
as having thus fixed the modern German language, he is of the
greatest importance to Germany itself. To us his value is that
of a thinker or moral force'.
=LYSIAS.= 4th century B.C. =Greek orator.=
ORATIONS OF LYSIAN AND ISOCRATES, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR LIVES,
AND A DISCOURSE ON THE HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CHARACTERS OF THE
GREEKS. _Tr._ John Gillies, 1778.
=MABINOGION.=
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE. _Ed._ and _Tr._, Mabinogion, fr. Llyfr Coch o
Hergest and other MSS. 3 v. 1838-49.
=MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO DI BERNARDO DEI.= _b._ 1469, _d._ 1527.
=Italian statesman, diplomatist and writer.=
THE ARTE OF WARRE, set forth in English by Peter Whitehorne, with an
addicion of other like Marcialle Feates and Experiments, 1560.
A DISCOURSE UPON THE MEANES OF WEL GOVERNING AND MAINTAINING IN GOOD
PEACE, A KINGDOME OR OTHER PRINCIPALITIE ... AGAINST N. MACHIAVELLL
[By I. Gentillet]. _Tr._ by S. Patericke, 1602.
THE FLORENTINE HISTORIE. _Tr._ by T(homas) B(edingfield), 1594.
NICOLAS MACHIAVELL'S PRINCE. Also, THE LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO OF LUCCA.
AND THE MEANES DUKE VALENTINE US'D TO PUT TO DEATH V. VITELLOZZO,
ETC. _Tr._ by E(dward) D(acres), 1640.
WORKS. _Tr._ by Henry Nevile, 1675.
Of the works of M., 'The Prince' was the most widely read.
=MAETERLINCK, MAURICE.= _b._ 1864. =Belgian dramatist.=
ALLADINE AND PALOMIDES, INTERIOR, AND THE DEATH OF TINTAGILES. _Tr._
1899.
BURIED TEMPLE. _Tr._ by A. Sutro, 1902.
THE DOUBLE GARDEN. _Tr._ by A. Teixeira de Mattos, 1904.
JOYZELLE. _Tr._ by A. Teixeira de Mattos, 1906.
LIFE AND FLOWERS. _Tr._ by A. Teixeira de Mattos, 1907.
LIFE OF THE BEE. _Tr._ by A. Sutro, 1901.
MAURICE AGLAVAINE AND SELYSETTE. A Drama. _Tr._ by A. Sutro, 1897.
MONNA VANNA. _Tr._ by A. Sutro, 1904.
MY DOG. _Tr._ by A. Teixeira de Mattos, 1906.
OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS, AND OTHER OPEN-AIR ESSAYS. _Tr._ by A.
Teixeira de Mattos, 1906.
PELLEAS AND MELISANDA. _Tr._ by Erving Winslow, 1893.
PRINCESS MALEINE (1890) AND THE INTRUDER. _Tr._ by G. Harry, 1892.
RUYSBROECK AND THE MYSTICS, WITH SELECTIONS. _Tr._ 1894.
SIGHTLESS, THE. _Tr._ with Pelleas and Melisanda [_tr._ 1893]. 1895.
SISTER BEATRICE, AND ARDIANE AND BARBE BLEUE. _Tr._ by B. Miall, 1901.
TREASURE OF THE HUMBLE. _Tr._ by A. Sutro, 1897.
WISDOM AND DESTINY. _Tr._ by A. Sutro, 1898.
'On the appearance of "The Princess Maleine" in 1890, the
author, hitherto known only to a small circle of amateurs,
at once sprang into fame on the continent.... As a brooding
poet, a mystic, and a contemplative spectator of the comedy of
death, whose work is couched, almost by a sort of accident,
in dramatic form, Maeterlinck will probably find a place in
literature'.
=MAFFEI, FRANCISCO SCIPIONE.= _b._ 1675, _d._ 1755. =Italian scholar
and author.=
[1] COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT AMPHITHEATRES ... AND IN
PARTICULAR THAT OF VERONA. 'Verona Illustra'. _Tr._ by A. Gordon,
1730.
MEROPE: a tragedy (1713). _Tr._ by Mr. Ayre, 1740.
[1] His principal work. Noted for its profound research, sound
criticism and elegant style.
=MAHABHARATA AND RÁMÁYANA. The two great epic poems of ancient
India.= Many episodes as the Bhagavad-Gítá have been separately
edited and translated.
MAHABHARATA. The Story of Dooshivanta and Sakoontala, extracted
from the Mahabharata (1. 2801-3121), a poem.... _Tr._ by C.
Wilkins. Postscript containing part of the institutes of Manoo on
transmigration and final beatitude. _Tr._ by Sir W. Jones, 1793.
MAHABHARATA. A complete English prose translation by Hindus, of
which up to 1890 fifty parts had appeared and were published and
distributed, chiefly gratis, at Calcutta, under the auspices of
Pratápachandra Roy, 1883 (in progress).
THE RÁMÁYANA OF VALMEEKI, in the original Sanskrit; with an English
prose translation and explanatory notes by W. Carey and J. Marshman,
1806, 8, 10.
[This work was intended to form nine volumes, but only three
appeared.]
THE BHAGVAT-GEETA, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon, in eighteen
lectures, with notes translated from the original, in the Sanskreet,
or ancient language of the Brahmans. By Chas. Wilkins, 1785.
Mahabharata, the name of the great epic poem of the Hindoos, so
called because it treats of the war waged among the descendants
of Bharata. It is said to contain 200,000 lines, or 100,000
double verses, the compilation of many writers, living in
different ages.
=MAIMONIDES= (=RABBI BEN MAIMON=). _b._ 1135, _d._ 1204. =Jewish
rabbi and philosopher.=
GUIDE TO THE PERPLEXED (Moreh Nevochim). _Tr._ by Dr. M. Friedländer,
3 v., 1885.
MAIN PRINCIPLES OF THE CREED AND ETHICS OF THE JEWS, EXHIBITED IN
SELECTIONS FROM THE YAD HACKAZAKAH, WITH A LITERAL TRANSLATION,
GLOSSARY, AND NOTES. 1832.
THE REASONS OF THE LAWS OF MOSES FROM THE MOREH NEVOCHIM (DOCTOR
PERPLEXORUM) OF MAIMONIDES, with notes, etc., and a Life of the
author by James Townley, 1827.
=MALEBRANCHE, NICHOLAS.= _b._ 1638, _d._ 1715. =French philosopher.=
TREATISE ON MORALITY. (1684.) _Tr._ 1699.
SEARCH AFTER TRUTH. _Tr._ R. Sault. 2 v. 1692-94.
TREATISE OF NATURE AND GRACE. To which is added the Author's Idea of
Providence.... _Tr._ 1695.
CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES.... _Tr._ 1695.
=MANTUANUSO.= _See_ =Spagnuoli=, =Baptista=. =Mantuanus.=
=MANUEL, JUAN.= _d._ 1350. =Spanish author.=
COUNT LUCANOV: FIFTY PLEASANT STORIES. _Tr._ James York. [1868].
=MANZONI, ALESSANDRO.= _b._ 1785, _d._ 1873. =Italian novelist and
poet.=
THE BETROTHED LOVERS. I Promessi Sposi (1825-7). _Tr._ [by C. Swan],
1828.
=MANUEL, DON JUAN.= _d._ 1350. =Spanish prince and author.=
THE COUNT LUCANOR. First done into English ... by James York [1868].
Shakespeare derived his 'Taming of the Shrew' indirectly
through M.
=MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS.= _b._ 121, _d._ 180. =Roman emperor and
philosopher.=
THE GOLDEN BOKE OF. _Translated_ out of the French. By John Bouchier,
Knight, Lord Berners. [1534.]
MEDITATIONS. With notes. _Tr._ by M. Casaubon, 1634.
=MARGUERITE OF NAVARRE.= _b._ 1492, _d._ 1549.
A GODLY MEDYTACION OF THE CHRISTEN SOWLE, CONCERNING A LOVE TOWARDES
GOD AND HYS CHRYSTE, Etc. _Tr._ by the Lady Elizabeth, 1548.
HEPTAMERON (1558). _Tr._ by R. Codrington, 1654. 1st _Tr._ 1597.
A series of stories and novelettes in the style of the
'Decameron', largely erotic.
=MARINI, GIAMBATTISTA.= _b._ 1569, _d._ 1625. =Italian poet.=
A POEM ON THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS. _Tr._ by T. R., 1675.
ECHO. [A sonnet. _Tr._ by T. Stanley], 1651.
Famous for his fantastic style known as 'Marinism'.
Marini's affected figures of speech, far-fetched comparisons,
and tricks of verbiage, as illustrated particularly in his
romantic 'Adone', characterized a generation of writers.
=MARIVAUX, PIERRE CARLOT DE CHAMBLAIN DE.= _b._ 1688, _d._ 1763.
=French novelist and dramatic writer.=
THE AGREEABLE SURPRISE. _Tr._ 1766.
PHARSAMOND: or, THE NEW KNIGHT ERRANT. In which is introduced
the story of the Fair Anchoret, with that of Tarminia and her
unfortunate daughter. _Tr._ by Mr. Lockman, 2 v., 1750.
[1] THE VIRTUOUS ORPHAN, or THE LIFE OF MARIANNE COUNTESSE OF ...
_Tr._ 4 v., 1784.
[1] Among the first novels which delineated real life and
manners.
M. appears to have distinctly influenced Richardson, whose
'Pamela' bears a strange similarity to 'Marianne'.
=MARMONTEL, JEAN FRANÇOIS.= _b._ 1723, _d._ 1799. =French dramatist
and critic.=
MORAL TALES. _Tr._ C. Dennis and R. Lloyd. 3 v. 1764.
NEW MORAL TALES. _Tr._ 1792.
THE INCAS, OR THE DESTRUCTION OF PERU. _Tr._ 1777.
BELISARIUS. _Tr._ 1767.
SELECT MORAL TALES. _Tr._ [R. Roberts] 1763.
TALES OF AN EVENING. 4 v. _Tr._ 1792-94.
MEMOIRS, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF: containing his literary and political
life, and anecdotes of the principal characters of the eighteenth
century. _Tr._ 1805. 4 v.
=MAROT, CLEMENT.= _b._ 1495, _d._ 1544. =French poet.=
Some translations from Clement Marot will be found in 'Ronsard
and La Pléiade'. By G. Wyndham, 1906.
Had a great influence upon the lyrics of Wyatt and Spenser. The
latter copied Marot in his pastoral poems, or eclogues.
The 'Style Marotique' was imitated by La Fontaine and other
French writers.
=MARTIAL= (=MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS=). _b._ 43, _d._ 104. =Latin
epigrammatic poet.=
FLOWERS OF EPIGRAMS, FROM MARTIAL AND OTHERS. _Tr._ by T. Kendall,
1577.
SALES EPIGRAMMATUM. Being the choycest disticks of Martials Fourteen
books of epigrams. _Tr._ 1644.
SELECT EPIGRAMS OF MARTIAL. _Tr._ by Tho. May, 1629.
'The modern conception of epigram is entirely taken from the
Latin form. Martial is the one model'. 'It is Martial who
has determined the form and matter of the epigram for modern
Europe'.
Jonson imitated Martial in his epigrams.
=MASSILON, JEAN B.= _b._ 1663, _d._ 1742. =French preacher.=
SERMONS. _Tr._ W. Dickson, 1798.
SERMONS ON THE DUTIES OF THE GREAT. _Tr._ Wm. Dodd, 1769.
THE CHARGES OF MASSILON: I, ON THE ART OF PREACHING. II, ON THE
COMPOSITION OF A SERMON. _Tr._ T. St. John (the Rev. S. Clapham),
1805.
AN EPISCOPAL CHARGE.... _Tr._ 1784.
=MAUPASSANT, GUY DE.= _b._ 1850, _d._ 1893. =French poet.=
AFLOAT. _Tr._ by L. Ensor, 1889.
A LADIES' MAN (1887). _Tr._ 1888.
MADAME TELLIER'S GIRLS.... THE INHERITANCE.... BUTTER-BALL. _Tr._ E.
Ellis, 1897.
MISS HARRIET. _Tr._ 1885.
THE ODD NUMBER. THIRTEEN TALES. _Tr._ J. Sturges, 1891.
ON THE RIVER. _Tr._ by J. Sturges, 1890.
PIERRE AND JEAN (1888). _Tr._ by C. Bell, 1890.
A WOMAN'S LIFE. _Tr._ 1885.
=MAZZINI, GIUSEPPE.= _b._ 1805, _d._ 1872. =Italian patriot and
writer.=
THE DUTIES OF MAN (1858). _Tr._ 1862.
LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JOSEPH MAZZINI. 6 v. _Tr._ 1864-70.
THE ITALIAN QUESTION AND THE REPUBLICANS. _Tr._ 1861.
=MEINHOLD, JOHANN WILHELM.= _b._ 1797, _d._ 1851. =German writer and
divine.=
[1] THE AMBER WITCH. _Tr._ by Lady Duff Gordon, 1844.
SIDONIA THE SORCERESS. _Tr._ 1861.
[1] Made a great sensation, and was regarded for some time as a
true narrative. The English translation was characterized by a
writer in the _Quarterly Review_ as a tale worthy of Defoe.
=MELUSINE= (=JEAN D'ARRAS=).
PROSE ROMANCE. _Ed._ A. K. Donald. E.E.T.S. Ex. Ser. lxviii. _See
also_ =Parthenon=, p. 111.
=MENANDER.= _b._ 341 B.C. =Greek dramatic poet.=
FRAGMENTS. Translations of some of the Fragments of Menander by Jos.
Warton will be found in the Adventurer, No. 105. Also in Fawkes's
Poems, 1761, and Colman's version of Terence.
=MENDOZA, DIAGO DE.= _See_ =Lazarillo de Tormes=.
=MERIMÉE, PROSPER.= _b._ 1803, _d._ 1870. =French novelist and
historian.=
CARMEN, (1845). _Tr._ 1845.
COLOMBA: a Corsican story ... (1840). _Tr._ by A. R. Scoble, 1853.
DEMETRIUS THE IMPOSTOR: an Episode in Russian History. _Tr._ by A. R.
Scoble, 1853.
=MERLIN=; or, =The Early History of King Arthur=. _C._ 1450-60. Ed.
H. B. Wheatley. E.E.T.S. 1860-69.
'An early chapter in the mythical history of Arthurian Britain.
_Tr._ from a French romance (13th century) that was based on
a poem by Robert de Borron. Covers in more prolix fashion the
first five books of Malory'.
=METASTASIO, PIETRO TRAPASSI.= _b._ 1698, _d._ 1782. =Italian poet.=
ADRIANO IN SIRIA; drama, etc. [Altered from M.; Italian and English].
1735.
ARTAXERXES; an opera. [Altered from M.]. _Tr._ 1734.
DEATH OF ABEL. An Oratorio ... _Tr._ 1768.
THE DESERT ISLAND; a dramatic poem. _Tr._ by A. Murphy, 1760.
DIDONE. _Tr._ 1754.
DRAMAS, AND OTHER POEMS. _Tr._ by John Hoole, 1800.
ENDIMIONE; Serenata. _Tr._ 1758.
THE PATRIOT; a tragedy. _Tr._ by Chas. Hamilton, 1784.
WORKS. _Tr._ by J. Hoole, 1767.
=MICHELET, JULES.= _b._ 1798, _d._ 1874. =French historian.=
ROMAN HISTORY: THE REPUBLIC (1831). _Tr._ 1847.
HISTORY OF FRANCE (1833). 4 v. _Tr._ D. K. Kelly, 1844-46.
HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 7 v. (1847-53.) _Tr._ by C. Cocks.
1847.
THE MARTYRS OF RUSSIA. _Tr._ 1851.
FRANCE BEFORE EUROPE. _Tr._ 1871.
LIFE OF LUTHER. _Tr._ W. Hazlitt, 1846.
PRIESTS, WOMEN AND FAMILIES. _Tr._ C. Cocks, 1845.
=MICKIEWICZ, ADAM.= _b._ 1798, _d._ 1855. =Polish poet.=
CONRAD WALLENROD: an historical poem. _Tr._ by J. Jablonski, 1841.
MASTER THADDEUS (PAN TADEUSZ); or, THE LAST FORAY IN LUTHANIA ... an
historical epic poem. _Tr._ by N. A. Biggs, with a preface by W. R.
Morfill, 1885.
=MIRACLE PLAYS.= _See under_ Name of plays as Coventry, Digby, etc.
=MOHAMMED.= _b._ 570, _d._ 632.
THE KORAN OF MOHAMMED. Translated. With explanatory notes and a
preliminary discourse by George Sale, 1734.
THE ALCORAN OF MOHOMET, translated out of Aribique into French by
Lieut. Du Ryer ... and newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all
that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. (A needful Caveat, or
Admonition for them who desire to know what use may be made of, or if
there be danger in reading the Alcoran, by A. Ross, 1642.)
=MOLIÈRE, JEAN B. P.= _b._ 1622, _d._ 1673. =French dramatist.=
THE METAMORPHOSES; or, THE OLD LOVER OUTWITTED; a farce, (1669).
_Tr._ by John Cory, 1704.
THE MISER: a comedy [in five acts and in prose]. (1667.) _Tr._ by T.
Shadwell, 1672.
MONSIEUR DE POURCEAUGNAC; or, SQUIRE TRELOOBY. _Tr._ by J. Ozell,
1704.
QUACKS; or, LOVE THE PHYSICIAN (1665). _Tr._ by Mr. Swinny, 1705.
TARTUFFE; or THE FRENCH PURITAN; a comedy (1667). _Tr._ by M.
Medburne, 1670.
WORKS; The first collected works were translated by J. Ozell, 6 v.
1714.
The writings of Molière were greatly influenced by the dramas
of Plautus. His 'L'Avare' is from the 'Aulularia', and his
'Amphitryon' from 'Amphitruo'.
Molière was also influenced by the writings of Terence, and
his 'Ecole des Maris' is from the 'Adelphi', and his 'Les
Fourberies de Scapin' from the 'Phormio' of Terence.
The plays of M. were imitated by Wycherley and Farquhar and the
post-Restoration dramatists. Meredith in his 'Essay on Comedy'
admits his profound and salutary influence on English fiction.
Molière was copied, adapted, translated by English writers, and
that not merely for reading, but for acting purposes. Dryden
translated 'L'Etourdi' as 'Sir Martin Mar-All'; Vanburgh turned
'Le Dépit Amoureux' into 'The Mistake'; Wycherley offered 'The
Plain Dealer' as a version of 'Le Misanthrope'; Fielding's
'Mock-Doctor' is 'Le Médecin Malgré Lui', his 'Miser' is
Molière's 'L'Avare'; Colley Cibber converted 'Tartuffe' into
'The Non-Juror'.
=MONTAIGNE, MICHAEL E. DE.= _b._ 1533, _d._ 1589. =French philosopher
and essayist.=
THE ESSAYS, (ESSAIS) or, MORALL, POLITIKE AND MILLITARIE DISCOURSES
OF LO: M. DE MONTAIGNE ... now done into English by J. Florio, 1603.
The first model of the essay. To Elizabethan England the
'Essays' of M. were well-known either directly or through
the translation of Florio. The 'Essays' of Bacon are clearly
indebted to his example. How far his influence has extended is
incalculable.
=MONTALBAN, PEREZ DE.=
THE SPANISH BAWDE. _Tr._ 1631. [Attached to Aleman's 'Spanish Rogue'].
AURORA AND THE PRINCE [novela of 'Successosy Prodigios de Amor']. By
Don J. Perez de M. _Tr._ T[homas] S[tanley], 1647.
THE ILLUSTRIOUS SHEPHERDESS. _Tr._ 1656.
=MONTALEMBERT, CHARLES FORBES DE.= _b._ 1810, _d._ 1870. =French
historian and political writer.=
THE CONVERSION OF ENGLAND, BEING A SEQUEL TO THE MONKS OF THE WEST. 3
v. _Tr._ 1867.
THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF ENGLAND. (1855). _Tr._ H. Barrow, 1856.
THE MONKS OF THE WEST. (1860). 7 v. _Tr._ 1861-79.
=MONTEMAYOR, GEORGE.= _b._ 1520. =Portuguese poet and novelist.=
DIANA. [With a second part of A. Perez and also a continuation:
entitled, Enamoured Diana, by G. G. Polo.] _Tr._ by B. Yong, 1598.
Spenser's 'Shepherd's Calendar' and Sidney's 'Arcadia' are both
influenced by M.
'From the "Arcadia" of Sanazzaro on the one hand, and from the
"libros de caballerias" on the other, the Portuguese-Spaniard
Montemayor created his famous "Diana." This work, like Sidney's
"Arcadia," is partly in prose and partly in verse, and, in
such English development as arose from the pastoral, the
influence of the Spaniard must be reckoned with that of the
Neapolitan. It appears in Spenser's "Shepheard's Calendar", and
incidentally, it may be observed, that before writing his "Two
Gentlemen of Verona" Shakespeare would seem at least to have
been told of the substance of Montemayor'.
=MONTESQUIEU, CHARLES DE SECONDAT, BARON DE LA BRÉDE ET DE.= _b._
1689, _d._ 1755. =French author.=
CURIOUS THOUGHTS ON THE HISTORY OF MAN. _Tr._ 1789.
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. _Tr._ 1759.
[1] PERSIAN LETTERS. (LETTRES PERSANES 1721.) _Tr._ by J. Ozell, 1730.
REFLECTIONS ON THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. (Causes de la
Grandeau des Romains et de leur Decadence 1734.) _Tr._ 1751.
SPIRIT OF LAWS. (De l'Esprit des Lois, 1748). _Tr._ by Mrs. Nugent,
1752.
THE TEMPLE OF GNIDUS: a poem. _Tr._ by John Sayer, 1765.
WORKS. _Translated_, 1777.
[1] 'A criticism of the social and religious conditions of
contemporary France. The book is an expression of freethought,
and the reaction against monarchical and ecclesiastical
despotism expressed later in the "Esprit des Lois"'.
=MONTI, VINCENZO.= _b._ 1754, _d._ 1828. =Italian poet.=
THE PENANCE OF HUGO, a Vision on the French Revolution.... _Tr._ by
Henry Boyd, 1805.
ARISTODEMO. _Tr._ J. A. Favalli, 1809.
DEATH OF BASSEVILLE. _Tr._ [A. Lodge] 1845.
=MORTE ARTHUR.= (_In Stanzas._)
_Ed._ Roxburghe Club, 1819.
_Ed._ Furnivall, F. J., 1864.
_Ed._ Bruce, J. D. E.E.T.S., _Ex. Ser._ lxxxviii.
=MORTE ARTHURE=, probably by Huchown of the Awle Ryale, author of
Swete Susan. See p. 76. (_Alliterative._) _C._ 1440.
_Ed._ Halliwell, 1847.
_Ed._ Perry and Brock, E.E.T.S., viii. 1865.
=MOTTEVILLE, MADAME DE.= _b._ 1612, _d._ 1689. =French memoir writer.=
MEMOIRS TOWARDS THE HISTORY OF ANNE OF AUSTRIA. 5 v. _Tr._ 1726.
=MUNCH, A.= _b._ 1811, _d._ 1884. =Norwegian poet.=
MAID OF NORWAY. _Tr._ Mrs. Birkbeck, 1877.
LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL. A TRAGEDY _Tr._ J. Chapman, 1858.
=MUNCHAUSEN, BARON.= _See_ =Baron Munchausen=.
=MURGER, HENRY.= _b._ 1822, _d._ 1861. =French novelist.=
BOHEMIANS OF THE LATIN QUARTER. _Tr._ 1887. (Scenes in Bohemian Life.)
=MUSÆUS.= 5th century. =Greek poet.=
THE DIVINE POEM OF MUSÆUS (HERO AND LEANDER). FIRST OF ALL BOOKES.
_Tr._ Geo. Chapman, 1616.
THE SECOND PART OF THE LOVES OF HERO AND LEANDER, by H. Petowe, 1598.
MUSÆUS, OR THE LOVES OF HERO AND LEANDER. _Tr._ Sir Robert Stapylton,
1647.
_See also under_ Anacreon.
=MUSSET, LOUIS CHARLES ALFRED DE.= _b._ 1810, _d._ 1857. =French
poet.=
FANTASIO: a proverbe [in two acts]. _Tr._ 1852.
A GOOD LITTLE WIFE. _Tr._ 1850.
THE POET AND THE MUSE: (La Nuit de Mai etc. (1830) with an
introduction by W. H. Pollock. _Tr._ 1880.)
WORKS. (Comedies) _Tr._ and edited, with an introduction, by S. S.
Gwynn, 1890.
=NEPOS, CORNELIUS.= B.C. 690? =Roman historian and biographer.=
LIFE AND DEATH OF POMPONIUS ATTICUS. _Tr._ 1677.
LIVES OF ILLUSTRIOUS MEN, Done into English by several gentlemen of
the University of Oxford, 1684.
=NIBELUNGEN LIED.= 13th century. =Epic poem=, 'The Iliad of Germany'.
Considered the most famous of the creations of mediæval Germany.
Properly speaking the title is 'The Calamity of the Nibelungen'.
THE FALL OF THE NIBELUNGERS: Otherwise the Book of the Kriemhild.
_Tr._ by W. N. Lettsom, 1850.
DAS NIBELUNGEN LIED, or, LAY OF THE LAST NIBELUNGEN. _Tr._ into
English Verse after C. Lachmann's collated and corrected text by J.
Birch, 1848.
This has been translated in parts on several occasions, and has
recently formed the subject of several story-books for children.
=NICCOLINI, GIOVAMBATTISTA.= _b._ 1762, _d._ 1861. =Italian poet and
dramatist.=
ARNOLD OF BRESCIA. _Tr._ T. Garrow, 1846.
=OEHLENSCHLÄGER, ADAM GOTTLOB.= _b._ 1779, _d._ 1850. =Danish poet.=
THE ADVENTURER. _In_ German Romances. _Tr._ 1826.
ALADDIN, or THE WONDERFUL LAMP. A dramatic poem. _Tr._ by Theodore
Martin, 1857.
ALI UND VALBORD; a tragedy. _Tr._ by R. M. Laing, 1841.
THE GODS OF THE NORTH. _Tr._ by W. E. Frye, 1845.
HAKON JARL: a tragedy [1807]. _Tr._ 1840.
ROMANTIC BALLADS. _Tr._ by George Borrow, 1826.
=OHNET, GEORGES.= _b._ 1848. =French novelist.=
BATTLE OF LIFE. _Tr._ 1884.
CLOUD AND SUNSHINE. _Tr._ H. Shott, 1887.
COUNTESS SARAH. _Tr._ 1884.
DR. RAMEAU. _Tr._ 1889.
GREAT MARL-PIT. _Tr._ 1886.
IRONMASTER, THE. _Tr._ 1884.
LADY IN GREY. _Tr._ D. H. Fisher, 1896.
LAST LOVE. _Tr._ 1890.
LOVE'S DEPTHS. _Tr._ F. Rothwell, 1899.
PRINCE SERGE PANINE. _Tr._ 1883.
RIVAL ACTRESSES. _Tr._ 1889.
WEIRD GIFT. _Tr._ A. D. Vandam, 1890.
WILL. _Tr._ 1884.
=OMAR KHAYYAM.= _b._ 1017, _d._ 1124. =Persian poet.=
RUBÃIYAT OF. _Tr._ by Edward Fitzgerald, 1859.
[First published in Paris in 1857.] Fitzgerald tr. only a small
selection of the quatrains and read into them a philosophy of
his own.
=ORIGEN.= _b._ Alexandra, 185, _d._ 254. =Early Christian writer.=
THE COMPLAYNT OF MARY MAGDALEYNE [from Origen. By J. Lydgate]. _In_
Chaucer's Boke of Fame. [1526].
AN HOMILIE OF MARYE MAGDALENE, DECLARING HER FERVENT LOVE AND ZELE
TOWARDS CHRIST. _Tr._ 1565.
ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. _Tr._ by James Bellamy, 1660.
=OVID= (=OVIDUS NASO PUBLIUS=). _b._ 43 B.C., _d._ 18 A.D. =Latin
poet.=
ALL OVID'S ELEGIES: 3 books. _Tr._ by C.[hristopher] M.[arlow].
Epigrammes by J.[ohn] D.[avies] and C. M.[arlow], 1600.
THE ART OF LOVE. The Flores of Ovid de arte amandi with theyr
englysshe before them: and two alphabete tablys ... 1513.
CERTAINE OF OVID'S ELEGIES. By C. Marlow. Epigrammes and Elegies by
J. D.[avies] and C. M.[arlow], [1590.]
DE PONTO, FOUR BOOKS OF. _Tr._ by Wye Saltonstall, 1639.
FABLE OF OVID TRETING OF NARCISSUS. _Tr._ with a moral thereunto,
very pleasant to rede. 1560.
FESTIVALS [THE FASTI], or ROMANE CALENDAR. _Tr._ by J. Gower, 1640.
THE XV BOOKES OF OVID, ENTYTLED METAMORPHOSES. _Tr._ by A. Golding,
etc. 1567.
HEROYCAL EPISTLES. In English Verse. _Tr._ by Geo. Turberville, 1567.
IBIS. Invective against Ibis. _Tr._ by [Thos. Underdowne], 1567.
OVID. HIS BOKE OF METAMORPHOSES. _Tr._ by Wm. Caxton. [1480.]
THE TRISTIA; or, ELEGIES, etc. De Tristibus, the first three Bookes.
_Tr._ by Thos. Churchyard, 1580.
Largely influenced Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Pope and
Shakespeare.
'In and before the poems of Chaucer, the poems of Ovid upon
love and its cure were much drawn upon by writers of romance
and allegories. They were the direct inspiration of much of the
troubadour poetry of Provence, and thence of the mediaeval
lyric verse of Europe in general. Ovidian borrowings are
manifest in the "Romance of the Rose". Chaucer himself was a
student of Ovid, Lucan, Virgil, "Stace" and also Livy. From
Ovid's "Metamorphoses," and love-elegies in particular, he took
much matter. Spenser's "Faerie Queene" is full of borrowings
from Ovid's "Metamorphoses". The effect of Ovid on Shakespeare
is manifest in his "Venus and Adonis"'.
=OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE.= _C._ 1216.
_Ed._ Stevenson. Roxburghe Club, 1838, and R. Morris. Specimens.
Edited by T. Wright. Percy Soc., 1842.
=PAINTER, WM.= _See under_ =Italian Anthologies, etc.=
=PALMERIN D'OLIVA.=
THE MIRROUR OF NOBILITIE AND WONDER OF CHIVALRY.... Turned into
English by [Anthony] M[unday]. 1637. 1st pt. _Tr._ 1588.
'This work was condemned by the licentiate in Don Quixote to be
torn to pieces and burnt'.
=PALMERIN OF ENGLAND.=
THE HISTORIE OF PRINCE PALMERIN OF ENGLAND, 3 v. _Tr._ by A[nthony]
M[unday]. 1602-9. Third bk. _Tr._ (1595).
'Ordered to be preserved by the licentiate in Don Quixote and
kept as a singular piece'. Southey remarks that Munday began
'Palmerin' with some care, but soon resigned the task to others.
=PARIS, MATTHEW.= _d._ 1259.
ENGLISH CHRONICLES (Chronica Majora). From the Creation to 1259,
containing the History of England (now ascribed to Roger of Wendover)
and from 1235 to 1273 (the portion written by M. Paris). _Tr._ by J.
A. Giles, 1849-54.
[M. P. is generally considered to be England's greatest
mediæval historian.]
=PARTHENAY, ROMANS OF, OR OF LUSIGNEN.=
_Ed._ Prf. W. W. Skeat. E.E.T.S., 1866.
A VISION OF 'MELUSINE'. See p. 193.
=PASCAL, BLAISE.= _b._ 1623, _d._ 1662. =French philosopher and
mathematician.=
LES PROVINCALES: or, THE MYSTERIE OF JESUITISM. _Tr._ 1657.
THOUGHTS ON RELIGION AND OTHER SUBJECTS. _Tr._ by J. Walker, 1688.
WORKS. _Tr._ by George Pearce. 3 v. 1849-50.
[Contains much that had never been translated before.]
=PATERCULUS, VELLEIUS.= B.C. 18. =Roman historian.=
ROMAN HISTORY. _Tr._ Sir Robert le Grys, 1632.
=PAUSANIAS.= 150 to 200. =Greek traveller and author.=
THE DESCRIPTION OF GREECE. _Tr._ Tom Taylor. 3 v. 1794.
AN EXTRACT OF PAUSANIUS. Of the Statues, Pictures and Temples in
Greece. _Tr._ 1758.
=PEARL, THE.=
_Ed._ R. Morris, E.E.T.S., 1869. _Tr._ by I. Gollancz 1891.
'Ranks among the most charming of old English poems, both in
thought and delicacy of feeling'.
=PELLICO, SILVIO.= _b._ 1788, _d._ 1854. =Italian poet.=
ON THE DUTIES OF MAN. _Tr._ T. Roscoe, 1837.
MY IMPRISONMENTS. _Tr._ [T. Roscoe], 1826.
=PERCEVAL, SIR, OF GALLES.= _See_ =Sir Percival=.
=PERRAULT, CHARLES.= _b._ 1628, _d._ 1703. =French author.=
CHARACTERS OF THE GREATEST MEN IN FRANCE DURING THE 17TH CENTURY
(1696-1700). (Hommes Illustres de Siècle de Louis XIV). _Tr._ by J.
Ozell, 1704-5.
FABLES IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH VERSE. _Tr._ 1741.
FAIRY TALES. (Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé, 1697.)
=PERSIAN ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.=
MESNEVI, THE. _Tr._ J. W. Redhouse. (Oriental Ser.). 1881.
PELLY, COL. SIR L. MIRACLE PLAYS OF HASAN AND HUSAIN. 2 v. 1879.
From oral tradition.
PHILLIPS, AMBROSE. _Tr._ PERSIAN TALES. 3 v. 1714-15.
PERSIAN TALES: a new translation, by Edward Button, 1754.
=PERSIUS= (=AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS=). 50 A.D. =Latin satiric poet.=
HIS SATIRES. _Tr._ into English [verse], by Barton Holyday, etc.,
1616.
=PETOFI, ALEX.= _b._ 1823-49. =Hungarian author.=
TRANSLATIONS FROM. By Sir J. Bowring, 1866.
SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS OF P. _Tr._ H. Phillips, 1885.
=PETRARCH= (=FRANCESCA PETRARCA=). _b._ 1304, _d._ 1374. =Italian
poet.=
COMPLAINTS. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the World's Vanities.
_Tr._ by Ed. Sp.[enser], 1591.
PETRARCHES VISIONS, [being a translation ... of the Canzone 'Standomi
un giorno solo, alla fenestra']. _Tr._ by Ed. Sp.[enser], 1591.
PHISICKE AGAINST FORTUNE. _Tr._ [by Thos. Twyne.] 1579.
SONNETS [30] AND [3] ODES. _Tr._ 1777.
A THEATRE WHERIN BE REPRESENTED THE MISERIES ... THAT FOLLOW THE
VOLUPTUOUS WORLDLINGS, etc. [With Epigrams. _Tr._ from the Sonnets of
Petrarch]. 1569.
THE TRYUMPHES OF FRAUNCES PETRACKE. _Tr._ by Henry Parker Knight ...
Lorde Morley, 1565.
The form of the sonnets of Petrarch as introduced into
England by Wyatt and Surrey became very popular in the time
of Elizabeth. The following are amongst the more important
writers of sonnets influenced by P.: Sidney, 'Astrophel and
Stella'; Dryden, 'Idea'; Constable, 'Diana'; Daniel, 'Delia';
Watson, 'Teares of Fansie'; Spenser, 'Amoretta'; Shakespeare,
'Sonnets'; and Milton, 'Sonnets'; Tottel's 'Miscellany'
(which as a collection of the Elizabethan poets) is markedly
influenced by P.
=PETRONIUS.= _c._ 50. =Latin satirist.=
THE SATYR OF TITUS PETRONIUS ARBITER. _Tr._ by Wm. Burnaby and
another Hand, 1694.
THE SATYRICAL WORKS OF T. PETRONIUS, ARBITER IN PROSE AND VERSE ...
made English by Mr. Wilson, Mr. Burnaby, Mr. Blount, Mr. Brown,
etc.... To which is added The Charms of Liberty ... 1708.
=PHAEDRUS.= _c._ 20. =Latin fabulist.=
FABLES. [Book 1.] _Tr._ 1646.
FABLES. _Tr._ by J. Davidson, 1745.
FIFTY FABLES OF PHÆDRUS, in Latin, French and English. _Tr._ by D.
Bellamy, 1734.
'Phaedrus put into verse the Greek fables--commonly fathered
all alike on "Æsop"--which he could find current in his day.
The collection is probably much the same as that of the Greek
"Demetrius Phalereus" (300 B.C.). From the point of view
of both morals and language, the book served admirably for
schoolboys, and it is at least one of the main sources of the
fables which found their way into England, first with Alfred,
and, later, in more force with Caxton's "Æsop"'.
=PILPAY= (=BÍDPÁÍ=). =Oriental fabulist.=
[1] THE MORALL PHILOSOPHIE OF DONI--drawne out of Ancient Writers ...
_Tr._ by Sir T. North, 1570.
THE INSTRUCTIVE AND ENTERTAINING FABLES OF PILPAY made English (for
the Duke of Gloucester), 1679.
[1] [This celebrated Arabian fable-book, 'Calilah i Dumnah'
(_q.v._) is better known in Europe as 'Pilpay's Fables'.]
Several European fabulists, including Æsop, La Fontaine, have
drawn largely from the fables of P.
=PINDAR.= _b._ 522, _d._ 442 B.C. =Greek lyric poet.=
ODES: Selected; with several other pieces in Prose and Verse by
Gilbert West, 1749.
THE ODES OF PINDAR ... _Tr._ ... including those of Mr. West. The
whole completed by F. Lee, 1810.
PINDARIQUES. B. R. Fleming. (A translation of four of the Odes of
Pindar, etc.). 1691.
Horace modelled his work on Pindar. Imitated by Cowley in
'Pindaric Odes', by Dryden in 'Song for St. Cecilia's Day',
'Alexander's Feast', by Pope, in 'Ode on St. Cecilia's Day', by
Gray in 'Progress of Poesy', by Shelley in 'Ode to Liberty'.
'Milton's "Ode on the Morning of the Nativity" is intended to
be Pindaric'.
=PINEAU DUCLOS= (=CHARLES=). _See_ =Duclos=.
=PLATO.= _b._ 427, _d._ 347 B.C. =Greek philosopher.=
APOLOGY OF SOCRATES AND PHÆDO OF PLATO. _Tr._ 1675.
AXIOCHUS: ON THE SHORTNESS AND UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE. _Tr._ 1592.
DIALOGUES. _Tr._ by Flower Sydenham, 1767-80.
ORATIONS OF PERICLES AND PLATO IN PRAISE OF THE ATHENIANS SLAIN IN
BATTLE. _Tr._ by E. Bentham, 1759.
REPUBLIC OF PLATO. _Tr._ by W. Spens, 1763.
WORKS OF PLATO, abridg'd, with an account of his life, philosophy,
morals and politics, together with a translation of his choicest
dialogues. By M. Dacier. _Tr._ from the French, 1701.
The 'Republic' is the model for all ideal commonwealths, e.g.
More's 'Utopia', Bacon's 'New Atlantis', etc. Berkeley's
'Alciphron' is based on the 'Dialogues'.
The philosophy of P. influenced the poetry of Shelley, and
Wordsworth's 'Intimations of Immortality'. His philosophy has
affected all subsequent philosophers.
=PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS.= _b._ 254, _d._ 184 B.C. =Roman comedian.=
COMEDIES. Amphitryon, Epidicus and Rudens. _Tr._ by [Laurence
Echard]. 1694.
MENAECMI. A pleasant comœdie. Written in Englishe by W. W[arner],
1595.
Formed type of Italian comedy of Renaissance. Shakespeare's
'Comedy of Errors' is an adaptation from Plautus's 'Menaechmi'.
Dryden's 'Amphitryon' is adapted from Plautus through Molière.
'Sackville sought his comic models in Plautus'.
=PLINY= (=GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS=). _The elder._ _b._ 23, _d._ 79.
=Latin writer.=
THE HISTORIE OF THE WORLD, commonly called the Natural Historie of
Pliny. _Tr._ by P. Holland, 1601.
THE SECRETS AND WONDERS OF THE WORLD. A Booke ryght rare and
Straunge, contayning many excellent properties given to Man, Beasts,
Foules ... Trees and Plants. _Tr._ 1585.
A SUMMARIE OF THE ANTIQUITIES AND
WONDERS OF THE WORLDE, abstracted out of the sixtene first bookes of
Pliny. _Tr._ by J. R. [1565].
An important source of our knowledge of early science.
'Doubtless Pliny's "Encyclopædia" is ultimately responsible for
much of the confused natural history of the Middle Ages, and
not only Chaucer, but also the sixteenth century Euphuists,
with their egregious similitudes, are almost certainly in his
debt'.
=PLINY, CAIUS.= (=CAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS.=) _The younger._
_b._ 61 A.D., =Latin author and orator.=
THE LETTERS OF PLINY THE CONSUL, with occasional remarks by Wm.
Melmoth, 1746.
The 'Letters of Pliny' are the most precious relics of Roman
epistolary correspondence that have come down to us.
The model for the modern letters of Horace Walpole and Pope.
=PLUTARCH.= _b._ 50, _d._ 120. =Greek philosopher and moralist.= The
greatest biographer of antiquity.
THE EDUCATION or BRINGING UP OF CHILDREN. _Tr._ out of Plutarch. By
Syr T. Eliot [1535].
THE GOVERNAÑCE OF GOOD HELTHE, by the most excellent phylosopher
Plutarche [1530].
HOWE ONE MAY TAKE PROFITE OF HIS ENMYES, _translated_ out of
Plutarche [by Sir T. Elyot] [1535].
THE LIVES OF THE MOST NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMANS COMPARED TOGETHER BY
PLUTARKE. _Tr._ [from the French of Amyot] by Thomas North, 1579.
THE PHILOSOPHIE, COMMONLY CALLED THE MORALS. _Tr._ by P. Holland,
1603.
A RIGHT NOBLE HISTORY OF THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER AND SOME OF
THEIR LIVES. Written by ... P. etc., 1569.
Shakespeare used North's tr. of Plutarch's 'Lives' freely for
his plots as is seen in _Coriolanus_, _Julius Caesar_. P. also
initiated the biographical essay, of whom we have the best
exponent in Macaulay. Has formed a model for all later writers.
=POEMA MORALE.= (Moral Ode.)
_Ed._ Text and _Tr._ R. Morris, 'Old English Homilies', 1878.
=POLISH ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.=
BOWRING, Sir JOHN. _Tr._ SPECIMENS OF THE POLISH POETS. 1827.
=POLIZIANO, ANGELO= (=POLITIAN=). _b._ 1454, _d._ 1494. =Italian
classical scholar and poet.=
HISTORY OF HERODIAN. _Tr._ ... by N. Smyth. [1550.]
ORFEO.
Hallam says, 'Politian was placed in the chair of Greek and
Latin eloquence at Florence. It is beyond controversy that he
stands at the head of that class in the fifteenth century'.
=POLO, MARCO.= _b._ 1254, _d._ 1324. =Venetian traveller.=
THE MOST NOBLE AND FAMOUS TRAVELS OF MARCUS PAULUS ... INTO THE EAST
PARTES OF THE WORLD. _Tr._ [by J. P. Frampton]. 1579.
=POLYBIUS.= _b._ 205, _d._ 123 B.C. =Greek historian.=
THE HYSTORIES OF ... POLYBIUS: DISCOURSING OF THE WARRES BETWIXT THE
ROMANES AND THE CARTHAGINENSES. Englished by C. W.(atson) Whereunto
is annexed an abstract compendiously coarsted out of the life and
worthy acts, perpetrate by King Henry the fift. 1568.
=PONSARD, F.= _b._ 1824, _d._ 1867. =French dramatist.=
CHARLOTTE CORDAY (1850).
LUCRECE (1843). _Tr._ [Sir A. Rumbold] 1848.
A SON OF THE SOIL (Play). _Tr._ 1850.
ULYSSES. _Tr._ H. B. Farnie. [1890.]
=PONTOPIDDAN, H.= =Scandinavian writer.=
THE APOTHECARY'S DAUGHTER. _Tr._ G. Nielsen, 1889.
THE PROMISED LAND. _Tr._ Mrs. E. Lucas, 1896.
EMANUEL; or, CHILDREN OF THE SOIL. _Tr._ Mrs. E. Lucas. [1896.]
=PORTUGUESE ANTHOLOGIES.= _See_ =Spanish=.
=PREVOST ABBÉ= (=ANTOINE FRANÇOIS PREVOST D'EXILES=). _b._ 1697, _d._
1763. =French writer.=
DEAN OF COLERAINE. A moral History.... _Tr._ 1752.
HISTORY OF MARGARET OF ANJOU, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. 2 vols. _Tr._ 1755.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MR. CLEVELAND, NATURAL SON OF OLIVER
CROMWELL, Etc. A romance, (1733-40.) 1734.
MANON LESCAUT. (1733.) _Tr._ 1841.
MEMOIRS OF A MAN OF QUALITY. (1728.) 1738.
=PROPERTIUS= (=SEXTUS AURELIUS PROPERTIUS=). _b._ 48, _d._ 14 B.C.
=Roman elegiac poet.=
PROPERTII MONOBIBLOS: or THAT BOOK OF THE ELEGIES OF PROPERTIUS
ENTITLED CYNTHIA. _Tr._ 1782.
=PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER S.= _b._ 1799, _d._ 1837. =Russian poet.=
THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER.... _Tr._ ... by J. F. Hanstein, 1859.
EUGENE ONEGIN: a novel in verse (1828). _Tr._ by Lieut-Col. Spalding,
1881.
MARIE: a Story of Russian Love. _Tr._ 1877.
POEMS. _Tr._ by Ivan Panin, 1889.
PROSE TALES. _Tr._ by T. Keane, 1894.
THE QUEEN OF SPADES, AND OTHER STORIES, 1892.
RUSSIAN ROMANCES [consisting of Miscellaneous Tales]. _Tr._ by Mrs.
J. Telfer, 1875.
THE TALISMAN. [_Tr._ by G. Borrow], 1835.
=QUEVEDO= (=QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS DE=). _b._ 1580, _d._ 1645. =Spanish
author and satirist.=
[1] BUSCON THE WITTY SPANIARD, WITH THE PROVIDENT KNIGHT (1626).
_Tr._ by J. D. 1657.
HELL REFORMED; or A GLASSE OF FAVOURITES, IN A VISION. _Tr._ 1641.
THE VISIONS OF QUEVEDO, made English by Sir R. L'Estrange. 1668.
NOVELS, faithfully englished; with the Marriage of Belphegor. _Tr._
1671.
QUEVEDO'S FORTUNE IN HER WITS. _Tr._ by Stevens, 1697.
QUEVEDO'S COMICAL WORKS. _Tr._ by Capt. Stevens, 1707.
'He is said to have resembled Voltaire in his talent for
ridicule and his versatility. He suffered much political
persecution'.
[1] One of the 'picaresque or rogue' novels, of which 'Jack
Wilton' by Nash was the first example in English. It was later
followed by 'Moll Flanders' and 'Colonel Jack' by Defoe,
the 'Joseph Andrews' of Fielding, the 'Roderick Random' and
'Peregrine Pickle' of Smollett. In the nineteenth century we
find it imitated by Dumas in 'The Three Musketeers' and also in
some of the later minor novelists.
=QUINTILIAN.= _b._ 35, _d._ 100. =Roman critic and teacher of
rhetoric.=
HIS INSTITUTES OF ELOQUENCE.... With notes critical and Explanatory.
By Wm. Guthrie, 1756.
THE DECLAMATIONS OF QUINTILIAN. [_Tr._ by Mr. Warr.] 1686.
=RABELAIS, FRANÇOIS.= _b._ 1483, _d._ 1553. =French satirist.=
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE WORKS OF MR. F. RABELAIS ... containing five
books of the Lives, etc., of Gargantua and his Sonne Pantagruel.
_Tr._ by Sir T. Urquhart. 2 parts (1532). 1653.
PANTAGRUEL'S PROGNOSTICATION, CERTAIN, TRUE AND INFALLIBLE. _Tr._ by
Democritus Pseudomantis. [1620.]
THE WHOLE WORKS OF F. RABELAIS. Done out of French by Sir T. Urchard,
Knight, Mr. Motteau, etc. 2 vols., 1708.
The precursor of Swift and Sterne, who imitated him.
'Rabelais is like no one else, but he contains elements which
recall the broader, comic side of Shakespeare, and others which
anticipate the scathing railleries of Swift. Sterne, apart from
his natural affinities with the earlier ecclesiastic, draws
upon him liberally'.
=RACINE, JEAN.= _b._ 1639, _d._ 1699. =French dramatic poet.=
ACHILLES; or IPHIGENIE IN AULIS. _Tr._ by Mr. Boyer, 1700.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT. (1665.) _Tr._ [by Ozell], 1714.
ANDROMACHE. A tragedy. (1667.) _Tr._ 1675.
ATHALIAH. A tragedy. _Tr._ by Wm. Duncombe, 1726.
BRITTANICUS. (1669.) _Tr._ [by Ozell], 1714.
THE DISTREST MOTHER. A tragedy. Written by Mr. Phillips, 1712.
ESTHER; or, FAITH TRIUMPHANT. (1689.) _Tr._ 1715.
THE LITIGANTS. _Tr._ [by Ozell], 1715.
THE SULTANESS: a tragedy. _Tr._ by Mr. Johnson, 1717.
The dramas of Seneca served as type for tragedies of Racine,
who vastly excelled him. The works of R. influenced the
post-Restoration dramatists.
=RANKE, LEOPOLD VON.= _b._ 1759, _d._ 1886. =German historian.=
CIVIL WARS AND MONARCHY IN FRANCE IN SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH
CENTURIES. _Tr._ 2 v., 1852.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE POPES OF ROME DURING
THE 16th AND 17th CENTURIES. (1834-1837.) _Tr._ by S. Austin, 3 v.
1840.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND, PRINCIPALLY IN THE 17th CENTURY. _Tr._ by C. W.
Boase, etc. 6 vols. 1875.
HISTORY OF SERVIA AND THE SERVIAN REVOLUTION. _Tr._ 1847.
HISTORY OF THE LATIN AND TEUTONIC NATIONS. [1494-1514]. _Tr._ by P.
A. Ashworth, 1887.
HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN GERMANY; _Tr._ by S. Austin, 1845-47.
OTTOMAN AND SPANISH EMPIRE IN SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.
_Tr._ 1843.
=RAUF COILYEAR, ROLAND, OTUEL=, etc. _Ed._ S. J. Herrtage. E.E.T.S.,
1882.
=REAL, CÉSARVICHARD, ABBÉ DE SAINT.= _b._ 1631, _d._ 1692.
DON CARLOS. _Tr._ 1722.
A CONSPIRACY OF THE SPANIARDS AGAINST THE STATE OF VENICE. _Tr._ 1675.
=REINCKE FUCHS.= _c._ 1150. _See_ =Reynard the Fox=.
=RENAN, JOSEPH ERNEST.= _b._ 1823, _d._ 1892. =French historian and
critic.=
ANTICHRIST. _Tr._ with an Introduction by W. G. Hutchison [1899].
CALIBAN. _Tr._ E. G. Vickery, 1896.
FUTURE OF SCIENCE. (1890.) _Tr._ 1891.
HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. _Tr._ C. B. Pitman and D. V.
Bingham. 3 v. 1888-91.
LECTURES ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE INSTITUTIONS, THOUGHTS AND CULTURE
OF ROME ON CHRISTIANITY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
_Tr._ C. Beard, 1880.
LIFE OF JESUS. _Tr._ 1867.
POETRY OF THE CELTIC RACES, AND OTHER STUDIES. _Tr._ W. G. Hutchison,
1896.
RECOLLECTIONS OF MY YOUTH. _Tr._ C. B. Pitman, and Revised by Madame
Renan, 1883.
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1864.
=RETZ, JEAN FRANÇOIS PAUL DE GONDI, CARDINAL DE.= _b._ 1614, _d._
1679. =French memoir writer.=
MEMOIRES OF THE CARDINAL DE RETZ, CONTAINING THE PARTICULARS OF HIS
OWN LIFE.... 4 v. _Tr._ 1723.
=REUTER, FRITZ.= _b._ 1810, _d._ 1874. =German poet.=
IN THE YEAR 13: A TALE OF MECKLENBURG LIFE. _Tr._ C. L. Lewes.
[1867.]
SEEDTIME AND HARVEST; or, DURING MY APPRENTICESHIP. _Tr._ 1867.
=REYNARD THE FOX.=
THE HISTORYE OF REYNART THE FOXE, by me William Caxton, translated
[from the Dutch] into Englyssh in th' Abbey of Westmestre. 1481.
This prolonged beast-fable, which enjoyed an immense vogue
throughout Europe, provoked countless imitations.
=RICHARD COUR DE LION, ROMANCE OF.=
Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1509-28.
The character of Richard Coeur de Lion, as portrayed in the
romance, is happily compared by Ten Brink to John Bull.
=RICHARD DE BURY= (=R. Aungervyle, of Bury=). _b._ 1287, _d._ 1345.
PHILOBIBLION. Eng. _Tr._ J. B. Inglis. 1832.
=RICHARD OF DEVIZES.= _C._ 1191.
DE REBUS GESTUS RICARDI PRIMI. _Tr._ Chronicles of the Crusaders.
_Ed._ J. Stevenson, 1838.
_Tr._ and _Ed._ Dr. Giles, 1841.
=RICHARD ROLLE.=
THE PRICKE OF CONSCIENCE. _Ed._ Morris, 1863.
=RICHTER, JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH.= _b._ 1763, _d._ 1825. =German writer.=
FLOWER, FRUIT AND THORN PIECES; (1796-97); or, the married life,
death, and wedding of the advocate of the poor (Firmian Stanislaws
Siebenkäs). _Tr._ by E. H. Noel, 2 vols., 1844.
HESPERUS. _Tr._ in Carlyle's _Trs._ from German, 1827.
LEVANA; a Treatise on Education (1807). _Tr._ 1848.
TITAN. _Tr._ C. D. Brooks. 2 v. 1863.
WILD OATS (Walt and Dalt) (1804-5). _Tr._ by Eliza Lee, 1846.
=ROBERT DE LA MENNAIS, H. F.= _See_ =Lamennais, F. R. de=.
=ROBERT MANNYNG OF BRUNNE.= 1260-1345.
HANDLYNG SYNNE (1303). _Ed._ Furnivall, Roxburghe Club, 1862.
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ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER'S CHRONICLE. 2 v. _Tr._ T. Hearne, 1724.
'Its value as an independent historical authority almost
confined to incidents of Barons' Wars'.
=ROGER OF HOVEDEN.= _d._ 1201. =English historian.=
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