Note 1022 — Chapter IV · LATER GERMAN CRITICISM.

Vols. 8-11 of the Cotta ed. It is from these that the material of Schopenhauer’s Art of Literature, translated by Mr Bailey Saunders (London, 1891), is taken. The excellence of Mr Saunders’s version is a matter of common consent. I am not quite so certain about his reconstitution of contexts, which is sometimes rather too much on a par with the taxidermic exploits of the late Mr Waterton; and he has left out some piquant things. But the advantage of opening such precious matter to merely English readers not only excuses this but makes excuse unnecessary.