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...alone. Gilbert Murray, of course, is almost unique among those who are rather transcribers, in a way, than actual, line-for-line translators. Alexander Teixera de Mattos is justly remembered, on the one hand, for his translations of Maeterlinck, on the other for his versions of Arsene Lupin. Louise Garnett's translations of Dostoieffski have brought her deserved and discriminating praise. But, in general, the translator is reduced to the scraps that fall from the critical table. "The translation seems adequate," cautiously, from a reviewer whom it might take three months and a private tutor to read the original?that...
LADY INTO Fox?David Garnett? Knopf ($1.50). In fable form and prose style Mr. Garnett (son of Edward Garnett, the famous critic) relates the curious story of a Mr. Tebrick's wife who is turned into a fox. The poor man tries to treat the vixen as his wife. He plays cribbage.with her, reads to her from Clarissa Harlowe, eats delicate meals with her. Day after day she reverts more and more into a fox, and at last is killed by the hounds. Mr. Garnett might easily have been grotesque, sensational and melodramatic, or merely absurd. Instead, he has written...
Handbooks of English Literature, "The Age of Dryden," by R. Garnett...
...Novels of Turgenev," volumes 1, 3, and 6 to 15 inclusive, translated by C. Garnett...
...volumes in the edition of the novels of Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett, and published by Macmillan and Co., contain A Sportsman's Sketches. Turgenev began his literary career and won an enormous popularity in Russia by his sketches from peasant life. These volumes contain some of the best of his short stories, and gain a special interest from the influence they had upon the action of the late Czar in his more kindly treatment of the serfs...