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...main features of a new literary periodical called the Revue Internationals, which is published in England by Messrs. Trubner and Co., will be a regular literary correspondence from Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, and other principal cities of the world. Each correspondent will closely follow the literary productions of the country relating to which he writes, and will give numerous extracts and translations, so that the readers of the Revue Internationale will have placed before them every fifteen days "a perfect mirror of the current literature of the world...
...certainly in its English garb it approaches, with some notable exceptions, about as near to the boundary of stuff and nonsense as any poetry ever written. I have attentively read Mr. Fitzgerald's translation of Khayyam and Mr. Herman Bickwell's translation of Hafiz, published in 1875 by Trubner Bros., London, and either my judgment is at fault, or the name of Khayyam ought scarcely to be mentioned in the same breath as Hafiz. All those who are interested in Persian literature are recommended to read all of Hafiz's odes and his Sakinamah and Menghanninamah, and to compare them...