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...recently acquired Riant collection, there is a large number of editions of Tasso, which are now being catalogued so that a separate list of them may be printed...
...very valuable book which once belonged to Napoleon the Great was discovered among some of the volumes of the Riant Collection at the Library when these were being classified recently. The book is a copy of Tasso's "Jerusalem De ivered," translated by Lebrun from the Italian into French, and supplemented by a biographical sketch of Tasso. The book is in two volumes, illustrated by several ngravings, and was printed in Paris by Bossanger in 1803; it is bound in calf, and on the covers are the imperial eagles, and, stamped in gold, the word "Fontainebleau." From the library...
...thousand volumes over five hundred are on literary history. There are many French and Italian works of general literature and numerous books on the medeaeval orders of knighthood, especially on the Templars and the Knights of Malta. There is also a special collection of the writings of Tasso, comprising about thirty editions, which range from the year 1581 to the present time. Many of the books are handsomely bound in heavy leather and many are of very early date...
...most commonly the case that a translator does not so much convert an author into his own language as into himself. How utterly unlike their originals are Pope's Homer, and Hoole's Tasso, Murphy's Tacitus and Francis's Horace? The greater the author, the more he suffers, because power of expression is always a chief part of the outfit of a great author. Certain phrases may be translated, like the famous: "They make a solitude and call it peace" of Tacitus, but who ever saw a satisfactory version of the concluding paragraphs of the Life of Agricola...
...class in German IV will begun "Tasso...