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The First Printed Translations into English 17

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.]