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The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics

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YULE-TIDE STORIES. Scandinavian and North German. 1853.

SAINT PIERRE, BERNARD DE. b. 1737, d. 1814. French writer.

THE INDIAN COTTAGE. Tr. by E. A. Kendal, 1791.

PAUL AND VIRGINIA; an Indian story. 2 v. 1789.

PAUL AND VIRGINIA. Tr. by H. M. Williams, 1796.

STUDIES OF NATURE. Tr. by H. Hunter, 1796.

'Paul and Virginia' is pronounced by a French critic as not only the chef d'œuvre of the author, but one of the chefs d'œuvre of the language. Has been largely imitated by English writers.

ST. REAL. See Real.

ST. TERESA. See Teresa, St.

SAINT SIMON, LOUIS DE ROUVROY, DUKE DE. b. 1675, d. 1755. French memoir writer.

MÉMOIRES. ENGLISH VERSION BY BAYLE SAINT JOHN. 4 v. 1857.

SAINTE-BEUVE. C. A. b. 1804, d. 1869. French critic.

DARU (Causeries du Lundi, vol. 9). Tr. by G. Masson, 1878.

ENGLISH PORTRAITS FROM THE C. DU L. Tr. 1875.

MONDAY CHATS, selected and translated by W. Matthews, 1877.

Matthew Arnold was an avowed disciple of S.-B.

SALLUST (CAIUS SALLUSTUS CRISPUS). b. 86, d. 34 B.C. Roman historian.

CONSPIRACY OF CATILINE, written by Constantius, Felicius, Durantinus, and Tr. by Thomas Paynell: with the Historye of Jugurth, written by the famous Roman Sallust, and Tr. by A. Barcklaye, 1557.

THE FAMOUS CRONYCLE OF THE WARRE WHICH THE ROMAYNS HAD AGAYNST JUGURTH USURPER OF THE KYNGDOME OF NUMIDY. Tr. by Syr A. Barclay [1520].

THE TWO MOST WORTHY AND NOTABLE HISTORIES ... (viz.) the Conspiracie of Catiline, undertaken against the government of the Senate of Rome and the Warre which Jugurth for many years maintained against the same state. [Tr. from the Latin by T. Heywood]. 1608-9.

SAND, GEORGE (AMANTINE LUCILE AURORE DUPIN, 'BARONNE' DUDEVANT). b. 1804, d. 1876.

ANTONIA. Tr. V. Vaughan, 1870.

BAGPIPERS, THE. Tr. K. P. Wormeley, 1890.

CESARINE DIETRICH. Tr. E. Stanwood, 1871.

CONSUELO. (1842.) Tr. by F. G. Shaw, 1847.

THE COUNTESS OF RUDOLSTADT. [Sequel.] (1843.) Tr. by F. G. Shaw, 1847.

DEVIL'S POOL. Tr. 1861.

ENCHANTED LAKE. Tr. 1850.

FRANCIS THE WAIF. Tr. 1848.

HAUNTED MARSH. Tr. 1847.

IMPRESSIONS AND REMINISCENCES. Tr. H. K. Adams, 1877.

INDIANA. (1832). Tr. 1850.

JACQUES. Tr. A. Blackwell. 2 v. 1847.

JEALOUSY, ETC. Tr. [1870].

THE JOURNEYMAN JOINER. (Le Compagnon du tour de France, 1841.) Tr. 1849.

THE HAUNTED MARSH. (La Mare au Diable, 1846). Tr. 1848.

LADY BLAKE'S LOVE LETTERS, etc. Tr. [from Lavinia] P. McCarthy, 1884.

LETTERS. Tr. R. L. de Beaufort, 1885.

LITTLE FADETTE. (La Petite Fadette, 1848.) Tr. 1849.

MARQUIS DE VILLEMER. Tr. R. Keeler, 1871.

MAUPRAT. (1837.) Tr. 1840.

THE MILLER OF ANGIBAULT. (1845.) Tr. 1847.

MOLIÈRE. Tr. 1867.

MOSAIC WORKERS; THE ORCS. Tr. E. A. A., 1844.

MY SISTER JÉANNIE. Tr. S. R. Croker, 1874.

ROLLING STONE. Tr. 1871.

SNOW MAN. Tr. V. Vaughan, 1871.

TEVERINO. Tr. 1855.

TOWER OF PERCEMONT. Tr. 1877.

THE USCOQUE. Tr. J. Bauer. [1850.]

WINGS OF COURAGE. CLOUD SPINNER. Tr. Mrs. Cockran. [1883.]

WORKS. Tr. M. M. Hays, E. A. Ashurst and A. R. Larken. v. 1-6. 1847.

SANDEAU, LÉONARD S. JULES. b. 1811, d. 1883. French novelist and dramatist.

CATHERINE. Tr. W. Robson, 1860.

MADELEINE. Tr. [1850].

THE HOUSE OF PENARVAN. Tr. Lady G. Fullerton, 1878.

AWAKING. A Drama. Tr. [1873].

SEAGULL ROCK. Tr. R. Black, 1872.

SANNAZARO, GIACOMO. b. 1458, d. 1530. Italian poet.

ARCADIA (1504). (No translation.)

Is said to be the original of Montemayor's dramas and of Sidney's 'Arcadia'.

SAPPHO. 610 B.C. Lyric poet.

ODE TO VENUS (Greek and English). Tr. 1799.

HYMN TO VENUS, etc. Tr. 1748.

WORKS OF SAPPHO. Tr. by F. Fawkes, 1813.

Herrick and Suckling modelled their poems upon Sappho's verse.

The French and Italian lyrists imitated Catullus and Horace, who were influenced by Sappho and Anacreon.

See also Anacreon.

SARDOU, VICTORIEN. b. 1831, d. 1908. French dramatist.

DORA. Tr. [1877].

FEDORA. Tr. [H. Merivale]. [1883].

FERNANDE. Tr. [1883].

FRIENDS OR FOES. Tr. See in Lacy's Ed. of Plays, 1850.

GEORGETTE. Tr. 1886.

INHABITANTS OF PONTARCY. Tr. [1878].

LET US BE DIVORCED. [From Divorçons.] Tr. [1881].

MADAME SANS-GÊNE. Tr. [1894.]

PROGRESS. Tr. [1893].

ROBESPIERRE. Tr. 1899.

SCRAP OF PAPER. Tr. Lacy's Ed. of Plays, [1850].

THEODORA. Tr. 1885.

SAWLES WARDE. Anon.

Ed. text and tr. R. Morris, 'Old English Homilies'. E.E.T.S.

SCARRON, PAUL. b. 1610, d. 1660. French comic writer.

[1] COMICAL ROMANCE; or, A FACETIOUS HISTORY OF STROLLING STAGE PLAYERS (1651-7). 1676.

TYPHON; or, THE GYANT'S WAR WITH THE GODS. (1664.) Tr. [by John Phillips], 1665.

THE WHOLE COMICAL WORKS OF M. SCARRON. Tr. by Thos. Brown, Savage and others, 1700.

[1] 'The earliest faithful picture of French provincial life, and, in its individual portraiture, a forerunner of the modern novel'.

SCANDINAVIAN ANTHOLOGIES. See Sagas: Collections.

SCHEFFEL, JOSEPH VICTOR. b. 1826. German poet.

EKKEHARD. Tr. 1872.

MOUNTAIN PSALMS. Tr. Mrs. F. Brünnow, etc. 1882.

THE TRUMPETER OF SÄKKINGEN. Tr. Mrs. F. Brünnow. [1884.]

SCHERER, EDMOND H. A. b. 1815, d. 1889. French critic.

ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN FRANCE. Tr. 1845.

DEMOCRACY AND FRANCE. Tr. F. M. D. Mahony, 1884.

ESSAYS ON ENGLISH LITERATURE. Tr. from 'Etudes critiques sur la littérature contemporaine', by G. Saintsbury, 1891.

SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH F. b. 1759, d. 1805. The second of the two great national poets of Germany.

THE BRIDE OF MESSINA (1803). Tr. by G. Irvine, 1837.

CABAL AND LOVE (1783). Tr. by C. Colombine, 1795.

CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHILLER AND GOETHE, 1794-1805. Tr. by G. H. Calvert, 1849.

DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN. Tr. by S. T. Coleridge, 1800.

DEMETRIUS. Tr. by C. Hodges, 1836.

DON CARLOS (1784-87). Tr. by Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee? 1798.

FIESCO. (1783.) Tr. by G. H. N. and J. C. S. [Noehden and Stoddart], 1796.

THE GHOST SEER, or APPARITIONIST. An interesting fragment found among the papers of Count O.... [Told by D. Boileau], 1795.

HISTORY OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR. (1788-). Tr. by Captn. Blaquiere, 1799.

MAID OF ORLEANS (1801). Tr. by J. E. Drinkwater, 1835.

MARY STUART. (1800.) Tr. 1801.

THE NEPHEW AS UNCLE. Tr. by G. S. Harris, 1856.

PHILOSOPHICAL AND ÆSTHETIC LETTERS AND ESSAYS. Tr. by J. Weiss, 1845.

POEMS AND BALLADS. Tr. by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, 1844.

POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS FROM THE GERMAN, INCLUDING SCHILLER'S FIGHT WITH THE DRAGON, TRIP TO THE FORGE, SONG OF THE BELL, etc. [By Sir Wm. Gomme] 1821.

POEMS FROM THE GERMAN. Tr. by G. T. Gallop, 1823.

REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS. Tr. by Thos. Horne, 1807.

THE ROBBERS. (1782.) Tr. by [A. C. Tytler, Lord Woodhouslee], 1792.

SONG OF THE BELL. Tr. by Lord F. L. Gower, 1823.

SEMELE. Tr. by C. Hodges, 1835.

TURANDOT; PRINCESS OF INDIA. Tr. by A. T. Gurney, 1836.

WALLENSTEIN. THE PICCOLOMINI, OR THE FIRST PART OF WALLENSTEIN (1798-9). Tr. by S. T. Coleridge. 1800.

WILLIAM TELL. (1804.) Tr. 1825.

SCHLEGEL, CARL WILHELM VON. b. 1767, d. 1845. German scholar and writer.

AESTHETICS AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS. Tr. E. S. Millington. 1849.

LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE: ANCIENT AND MODERN. Tr. Lockhart, 1818.

PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY. Tr. 1835.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE IN A COURSE OF LECTURES. Tr. by A. J. W. Morrison, 1846.

SCHOPENHAUER, ARTHUR. b. 1788, d. 1860. German pessimist philosopher.

ON BOOKS AND READING—in his Religion. Tr. 1889.

SELECT ESSAYS. Tr. by G. Droppers and C. A. P. Dachsel, 1881.

SELECTED ESSAYS. Tr. by E. B. Bax, 1891.

TWO ESSAYS: (1) On the fourfold root of the principal of sufficient Reason. (2) On the Will in Nature. Told by J. Frauenstadt, 1852.

THE WORLD AS WILL AND IDEA. (1819.) Tr. by Haldane and Kemp, 1883-6.

SCHOPENHAUER SERIES. Tr. by T. Bailey Saunders. 5 vols. 1890-3.

SCHOPENHAUER SERIES:—

1. WISDOM OF LIFE. Tr. 1890. 2. COUNSELS AND MAXIMS. 1890. 3. RELIGION: A DIALOGUE. Tr. 1889. 4. STUDIES IN PESSIMISM. Tr. 1890. Including the famous essay on women. 5. ART OF LITERATURE, and other Essays. 1891.

SCRIBE, AUGUSTIN EUGÈNE. b. 1791, d. 1861. French comic dramatist.

ASMODEUS, THE LITTLE DEMON. Adapted [1850].

BLACK DOMINO; or, A NIGHT'S ADVENTURE (Le Domino Noir 1837). Tr. 1837.

THE FAVOURITE OPERA ... THE CROWN DIAMONDS (Les Diamants de la Couronne, 1840). Tr. [1840].

THE HUGUENOTS. Tr. [1843].

MASANIELLO; or, THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI. Tr. 1843.

A PECULIAR POSITION: A farce. Tr. by J. R. Planche, 1837.

ROBERT THE DEVIL. (Robert le Diable.) Tr. [1832].

THE SOMNAMBULIST. (La Sonnambula 1831.) Tr. [1850].

SCUDERY, MADELEINE DE. b. 1607, d. 1701. French writer and novelist.

[*] ALMAHIDE; or THE CAPTIVE QUEEN. Tr. by John Philips, 1677.

[*] AMARYLLIS TO TITYRUS. A Witty and pleasant Novel. Tr. 1681.

[*] ZELINDA. Englished by J. D. 1676.

[*] These appeared originally under the name of her brother, G. de Scudery.

ARTAMENES; or, THE GRAND CYRUS. Tr. by F. G. 5 vols. 1653-5.

CLEILA. (1654-60.) Tr. by John Davies. 5 v. 1656-61.

IBRAHIM; or, THE ILLUSTRIOUS BASSA. (1641.) Tr. by Henry Cogan, 1652.

The interminable pseudo-romantic stories of M. de S.—the 'Grand Cyrus' or 'Clélie'—were exploited by Robert Boyle (Earl of Surrey), Sir Geo. Mackenzie, J. Crowne the dramatist, etc., as well as by Dryden and other post-Restoration dramatists.

SENECA, LUCIUS ANNÆUS. b. 4 B.C., d. 65 A.D. Roman stoic philosopher and dramatist.

THE EYGHT TRAGEDIES ... Entituled Agamemnon. Tr. by J. Studley, 1566.

THE LAMENTABLE TRAGEDIE OF ŒDIPUS. Tr. by A. Nevyle. [In verse.] 1563.

MORALS. Tr. by T. Lodge, 1614.

THE REMEDYES AGAYNST ALL CASUALL CHAUNCES ... A dialogue between Sensualyte and Reason. Tr. by E. Wyttynton, 1547.

THE SECONDE TRAGEDIE OF SENECA ENTITLED THYESTES. Tr. by J. Heywood. [In verse.] 1560.

THE SEVENTH TRAGEDY OF S., ENTITLED MEDIA: Tr. by J. Studley, 1566.

THE SIXT TRAGEDY OF L. A. S. ENTITULED TROAS [ ... In Verse]. Tr. by J. Heywood, 1559.

SENECA, HIS TENNE TRAGEDIES. Tr. into English. [Hercules Furens, Thyestes, and Troas.] Tr. by J. Heywood; Œdipus, by A. Nevile; Hippolytus, Medea, Agamemnon and Hercules Oetaeus by J. Studley; Octavia by T. Nuce and Thebais by T. Newton, 1581.

THE WORKS OF L. A. SENECA, CONCERNING BENFYTING, THAT IS TO SAY, THE DOING, RECYVING AND REQUYTING OF GOOD TURNES. Tr. by A. Golding, 1578.

Supposititious Works.

THE FORME AND RULE OF HONEST LYVYNGE. Tr. by R. Whyttynton, 1546.

MYROUR OF GLASSE OF MANERS AND WYSEDOME. Tr. by R. Whyttynton, 1547.

OCTAVIA. Tr. by T. Nuce, 1566.

Addison's 'Cato' was largely influenced through French sources by Seneca.

Sackville sought for tragic models in Seneca.

Seneca had great influence on Early Elizabethan drama. The best imitation of his style is Addison's 'Cato'.

Seneca's rhetorical plays were the model for the early Elizabethan dramatists, but Shakespearean superseded this influence.

SERVIAN ANTHOLOGIES. See Anthologies, General.

SEVYN SAGES OF ROME. (Collection of Tales). Cir. 1300.

Ed. Wright, Percy Soc. 1846. Weber, Metrical Romances, 1810.

THE SEVIN SEAGES, translatit out of Prois in Scottis Meter be John Rolland, 1578.

SÉVIGNÉ, MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL, MARQUISE DE. b. 1626, d. 1696. French writer.

COURT SECRETS ... extracted from the Letters of M. de S. Tr. 1727.

LETTERS FROM THE MARCHIONESS DE SÉVIGNÉ TO HER DAUGHTER, THE COUNTESS DE GRIGNAN. (1st ed. 1726.) 10 vols. 1764.

M. de Sévigné has been pronounced the most admirable letter-writer that ever lived. Her style has been largely copied.

SHI KING: or, BOOK OF ODES. Chinese.

THE SHIH KING, or BOOK OF POETRY. (Told by J. Legge.) The Sacred Books of the East, vol. 3, 1879.

SIR BEVES OF HAMTOUN.

Ed. Turnbull, Maitland Club, 1838. E.E.T.S., 1885-94.

SIR FERUMBRAS. 14th century. Trs. of Ferabras and other Chansons de Gestes and romans d'aventures.

Ed. S. J. Herrtage. E.E.T.S., 1879.

SIR GAWAYNE AND THE GRENE KNIGHT.

Ed. F. Madden, Bannatyne Club, 1839. Morris, E.E.T.S., 1864.

SIR GOWTHER.

A VERSION OF THE LEGEND OF ROBERT THE DEVIL. 15th century. Ed. Utterson, 'Select Pieces of early Popular Poetry'. 1817.

SIR ISUMBRAS.

Ed. Ellis (Halliwell), 1897.

HERE BEGYNNETH THE HISTORY OF THE VALYENT KNYGHT, SYR ISENBRAS. [In verse.] [1550?]

THE ROMANCE OF SIR ISUMBRAS. (The Thornton Romances). 1844.

An old English romance in verse. Consists of 130 six-lined stanzas.

SIR ORFEO. (Orfeo and Heurodis.)

Ed. Ritson, Ancient Metrical Romances. 1802.

SIR PERCEVAL OF GALLES. 13th century.

Ed. Halliwell, Thornton Romances. Camden Soc., 1844.

SIR TRIAMOUR, ROMANCE OF.

Ed. J. O. Halliwell [Phillips]. Percy Soc., 1846.

SIR TRISTREM. C. 13th century.

Ed. Fr. Michel. THE POETICAL ROMANCES OF TRISTAN. 3 v. 1835-39. SIR WALTER SCOTT, 1804.

SLAVONIC ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS, General.

Slavonic.

NAAKE, JOHN T. SLAVONIC FAIRY TALES. Collected and translated from the Russian, Polish, etc. 1874.

WRATISLAW, A. H. Tr. SIXTY FOLK-TALES FROM SLAVONIC SOURCES. 1889.

Servian.

BOWRING, SIR JOHN. Tr. SERVIAN POETRY. [Historical, Traditional, and Religious], 1827.

LYTTON, LORD ('OWEN MEREDITH'). Tr. Serbski Pesme: the National Songs of Servia. 1861.

SOCRATES. b. 469, d. 399 B.C. Greek philosopher.

See PLATO'S DIALOGUES. Tr. by Floyer Sydenham, 1767-80.

Also XENOPHON'S MEMORABILIA. Tr. by E. Bysshe, 1712.

SOPHOCLES. b. 496, d. 405 B.C. Greek tragic dramatist.

AJAX. Tr. by Lewis Theobald, 1714.

ELECTRA. (Translated in Verse.) By C.(harles) W.(ase), 1649.

ŒDIPUS, KING OF THEBES. Tr. with notes by Lewis Theobald, 1715.

PHILOCTETES. Tr. by Thos. Sheridan. 1725.

THE TRAGEDIES OF SOPHOCLES. Tr. with notes by Geo. Adams, 1729.

Influenced Milton's 'Samson Agonistes', Addison's 'Cato', Swinburne's 'Atalanta in Calydon', Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound', Byron's 'Cain' and 'Manfred'. Arnold's 'Merope' is an imitation of S.

SPAGNUOLI, BAPTISTA MANTUANUS. b. 1448, d. 1516. Italian poet. A Carmelite Friar. Erasmus says that 'he would be placed by posterity not much below Virgil'.

EGLOGS OF THE POET B. MANTUAN CARMELITAN, turned into English Verse ... by George Turbervile, Gent. 1567.

THE BUCOLICKS OF B. M. IN TEN ECLOGUES. Tr. ... by Thos. Harvey, 1656.

Copied by both Sanazzaro and Spenser ('Shepherd's Calendar'); also by Sidney.

'Readers of "Love's Labour's Lost" need hardly be told that "good old Mantuan" was a Latin school-book in Shakespeare's boyhood, and has also been imitated by Barclay'.

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS. Poetical, Fairy Tales, Folk-Tales and Traditional Literature.

BUSK, MISS R. H. Tr. PATRAÑAS, or SPANISH STORIES, LEGENDARY AND TRADITIONAL, 1870.

COELHO, F. A. Ed. TALES OF OLD LUSITANIA. Tr. H. Monteiro, 1885.

KENNEDY, J. Tr. MODERN POETS AND POETRY OF SPAIN. 1852.

LEWIS, G. Tr. THE CID BALLADS. 1883.

LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON. Tr. ANCIENT SPANISH BALLADS. Historical and Romantic. 1821.

MEXIA, PEDRO (Silva de Varia Lecion) THE FORESTE, or COLLECTION OF HISTORIES NO LESSE PROFITABLE, THAN PLEASANT AND NECESSARIE, DOONE out of Frenche into Englishe, by Thomas Fortescue, 1571.

[The genius of these tales may be discerned from their history. The book is said to have been written in Spanish by P. de M., thence tr. into Italian, thence into French by Claude Cruget, and lastly from French into Eng. by F.]

MIDDLEMORE, MRS. S. G. Tr. SPANISH LEGENDARY TALES. 1885.

MONTEIRO, MARIANA. Tr. GATHERED GEMS FROM SPANISH AUTHORS. 1878. LEGENDS AND POPULAR TALES FROM THE BASQUE PEOPLE. [1886.]

MIDDLEMORE, S. G. Tr. SPANISH LEGENDARY TALES. 1885.

ORMSBY, JOHN. Tr. POEMS OF THE CID. 1879.

PEDROSO, Z. Tr. PORTUGUESE FOLK-TALES with introduction by Ralston, 1882.

ROSCOE, THOS. Tr. SPANISH NOVELISTS. 3 v. 1832.

SOUTHEY, R. Tr. AMADIS OF GAUL. 1872.

SOUTHEY, R. Tr. CHRONICLES OF THE CID [Prose]. 1808.

STRETTELL, ALMA. Tr. SPANISH AND ITALIAN FOLK-SONGS. 1887.

SPIELHAGEN, FRIEDRICH. b. 1829, German novelist.

BREAKING OF THE STORM. Tr. S. Stephenson. 3 vols. 1877.

HOHENSTEIN. Tr. 1870.

PROBLEMATIC CHARACTERS, Tr. S. de Vere, 1869.

QUISISANA. Tr. 1880.

SKELETON IN THE HOUSE. Tr. J. Marsden, 1881.

THROUGH NIGHT TO LIGHT. Tr. 1870.

[Sequel to Problematic Characters.]

ULTIMO. Tr. [1874].

VILLAGE COQUETTE. Tr. J. L. Laird, 1875.

SPINOZA, BENEDICT DE. b. 1632, d. 1677. Pantheistic philosopher.

DISCOURSES TO PROVE THE LIBERTY OF PHILOSOPHIZING, etc. (Tractatus Theologico-politicus), 1689.

THE ETHICS OF BENEDICTUS DE SPINOZA demonstrated after the method of geometers and divided into five parts. (Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata.) [Tr. by D. D. S.] 1876.

MIRACLES NO VIOLATION OF THE LAW OF NATURE. Tr. 1683.

[This is the 6th Chapter of the Tractatus.]

SPINOZO REVIVED: or ... THE RIGHTS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 1709.

Treatise partly Theological and partly Political.

STAAL, VON (MARGUERITE JEANNE CORDIER) BARONESS. b. 1693, d. 1750. French writer.

MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE STAHL (1755). Tr. 1759.

STAËL-HOLSTEIN, DE (ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE NECKER) BARONNE, commonly called Madame de Staël. b. 1766, d. 1817.

DELPHINE (1802). 4 v. Tr. 1803.

CORINNE, or ITALY (1807). Tr. 1807.

LETTERS ON THE WORKS AND CHARACTER OF J. ROUSSEAU. Tr. 1789.

TREATISE ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE PASSIONS UPON THE HAPPINESS OF INDIVIDUALS AND OF NATIONS, ILLUSTRATED BY REFERENCE TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Tr. 1798.

TREATISE ON ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE.... Tr. 1803.

INFLUENCE OF LITERATURE UPON SOCIETY. 2 v. Tr. 1812.

ZULMA: AND OTHER TALES. Tr. 1813.

REFLECTIONS ON SUICIDE. Tr. 1813.

GERMANY. 3 v. Tr. 1813.

LETTERS AND REFLECTIONS OF PRINCE DE LIGNY. Tr. 1814.

CONSIDERATIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Tr. 1819.

TEN YEARS EXILE. Tr. 1821.

STATIUS, PUBLIUS PAPINIUS. b. about 60 A.D., d. about 100 A.D. Roman poet.

THEBAID. (Epic of Thebes and its heroes.)

FIVE BOOKS OF THE THEBAIS OF P. STATIUS, translated by Thomas Stephens, 1648.

ACHILLES. Howard, Sir R. Statius, his Achilleis with annotations.... 1660.

SYLVÆ ET ACHILLEIS. Tr. by Stephens, 1648.

Modern critics prefer his 'Sylvae' to the 'Thebaid', the latter being deficient in creative energy.

'Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" was derived from the "Thebaid" of S'.

'STEPNIAK'. Pseud. (SERGIUS MICHAEL DRAGOMANOFF). b. 1841, d. 1895. Russian writer.

CAREER OF A NIHILIST. Tr. 1889.

UNDERGROUND RUSSIA (1881).

NIHILISM AS IT IS (1894).

KING STORK AND KING LOG. 2 v. Tr. 1895.

STINDE, DR. JULIUS. German novelist.

BUCHHOLZ FAMILY. 4 v. Tr. 1886.

THE BUCHHOLZES IN ITALY. Tr. H. F. Powell, 1887.

WOODLAND TALES. Tr. E. Wright, 1887.

STRABO. Greek geographer. b. 64 B.C., d. 21 A.D.

THE GEOGRAPHY OF STRABO. Literally translated by H. C. Hamilton and W. Falconer. With notes and a complete Index. 1854-56, 57.

THE ITINERARY OF GREECE, with a commentary on Pausanius and S. 1810.

SUDERMANN, HERMANN. b. 1857. German writer.

DAME CLARA.... Tr. B. Overbeck, 1891.

MAGDA (HEIMAT). Tr. C. E. A. Winslow, 1896.

REGINE (DER KATZENSTEG). Tr. H. E. Miller, 1894.

SUE, MARIE-JOSEPH EUGÈNE. b. 1804, d. 1859. French novelist.

THE COMMANDER OF MALTA. Tr. by A Diosy, 1846.

THE MARQUIS OF LETORIÈRE. Tr. [1851].

MARTIN THE FOUNDLING. (1846.) Tr. 1847.

MATILDA ... (1841). Tr. by O. Rochford, 1845.

THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS. (Mystères de Paris, 1842.) Tr. 1844.

MYSTERIES OF THE PEOPLE. (Les Mystères du Peuple, 1849.) Tr. 1867.

THE NEGRO'S REVENGE. Tr. 1841.

THE PROTESTANT LEADER. (Jean Cavalier, 1840.) Tr. 1849.

THE WANDERING JEW. (Le Juif Errant, 1844-5.) Tr. 3 vols. 1844-5.

SUETONIUS, CAIUS SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS. b. c. 70. Latin historian.

THE HISTORIE OF TWELVE CÆSARS, EMPEROURS OF ROME. Tr. by P. Holland. Together with a marginal glosse, and other brief annotations thereupon. 1606.

LIVES OF THE EMINENT GRAMMARIANS. Tr. by Alex Thomson, 1796.

LIVES OF THE EMINENT RHETORICIANS. Tr. by Alex. Thomson, 1796.

SWEDENBORG, EMANUEL. b. 1688, d. 1772. Swedish naturalist, mathematician and theosophist.

ANIMAL KINGDOM.... Tr. by J. G. Wilkinson, 1843-44.

APOCALYPSE REVEALED. Tr. 1791.

ARCANA CŒLESTIA; or HEAVENLY MYSTERIES (1749-56). Tr. 12 vols. 1784-1806.

CONCERNING THE EARTHS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, WHICH ARE CALLED PLANETS, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR INHABITANTS. Tr. 1787.

CONTINUATION OF THE LAST JUDGMENT AND THE SPIRITUAL WORLD. Tr. 1791.

CORONIS. Tr. by R. Hindmarsh, 1811.

DELIGHTS OF WISDOM, CONCERNING CONJUGAL LOVE.... Tr. 1790.

DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM RESPECTING THE LORD. Tr. 1784.

ECONOMY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. Tr. by A. Clissold, 1845.

THE HEAVENLY DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. Tr. 1791.

ON THE DIVINE LOVE AND THE DIVINE WISDOM. Tr. 1840.

ON THE NEW JERUSALEM AND ITS HEAVENLY DOCTRINE, AS REVEALED FROM HEAVEN. Tr. 1784.

ON THE WORSHIP AND LOVE OF GOD. [Part I.] Tr. 1816.

PRINCIPIA, OR THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL THINGS. Tr. by A. Clissold. 1845-46.

SKETCH OF THE DELIGHTS OF CONJUGAL LOVE. Tr. 1789.

TREATISE CONCERNING HEAVEN AND HELL. Tr. 1778.

TREATISE CONCERNING THE LAST JUDGEMENT. Tr. by R. Hindmarsh, 1810.

TREATISE ON THE NATURE OF INFLUX. Tr. 1784.

TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, containing the Universal Theology of the New Church. Tr. 1786.

WISDOM OF ANGELS CONCERNING DIVINE LOVE AND WISDOM. Tr. 1816.

'It cannot be denied that Swedenborg's theosophy has exerted an important influence upon many gifted minds who are far from accepting all the details of his extraordinary revelations'.

TACITUS, CAIUS CORNELIUS. b. 55, d. 130. Roman historian.

THE ANNALES: AND THE DESCRIPTION OF GERMANY. Tr. by Richard Grenaway, 1598.

THE ENDE OF NERO AND BEGINNING OF GALBA, fower Bookes of the Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The Life of Agricola. By Sir Henry Savile, 1581.

WORKS OF TACITUS: To which are Prefixed Political Discourses upon that author [by Thos. Gordon.] 1728.

TAINE, HIPPOLYTE A. b. 1828, d. 1893. French littérateur.

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. (Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise, 1863-64.) Tr. by H. van Laun, 1871.

THE IDEAL IN ART ... Tr. by J. Durand, 1870.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART. Tr. by J. Durand, 1865.

TALMUD, THE (Babylonian and Jerusalem).

Vol. 1. of the JERUSALEM TALMUD. The First English Translation by D. M. Schwab appeared in 1885.

THE TRADITIONS OF THE JEWS, or THE DOCTRINES AND EXPOSITIONS CONTAINED IN THE TALMUD AND OTHER RABBINICAL WRITINGS. Tr. by Rev. John P. Stehelin, 1732-4.

THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE JEWS ACCORDING TO THE TALMUD. Tr. 1880.

EXTRACTS FROM THE TALMUD.... Tr. by P. I. Herschon, 1860.

TASSO, TORQUATO. b. 1544, d. 1595. Italian epic poet.

THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKES YVYCHURCH (Aminta), Conteyning the affectionate life ... of Phillis and Amyntes (1581). Tr. by A. Fraunce, 1591.

GODFREY OF BULLOIGNE; or THE RECOVERIE OF HIERUSALEM.... Tr. into English by R. C.[arew] and now the first part containing five cantos. 1594.

GODFREY OF BULLOIGNE; or THE RECOVRIE OF JERUSALEM. Done into English heroical verse by Edw. Fairfax, 1600.

THE HOUSEHOLDER'S PHILOSOPHY. Tr. by T. K. 1588.

Writings largely influenced by Virgil.

Imitated by Spencer in his 'Faerie Queene'. Milton was also influenced by him.

TASSONI, ALESSANDRA. b. 1565, d. 1635. Italian critic and satirist.

LA SECCHIA RAPITA; or, THE RAPE OF THE BUCKET. Tr. by J. Atkinson, 1825.

Published severe criticism on the poet Petrarch in 1609, which gave rise to much bitter controversy with several of that poet's admirers.

Suggested to Pope his 'Rape of the Lock'.

TEGNÉR, ESAIAS. b. 1782, d. 1846. Swedish poet.

AXEL: a romance (1821). Tr. by R. Muckleton, 1864.

AXEL AND SVEA. Poems ... Tr. by O. Baker, 1840.

FRITHJOF'S SAGA (1825). Tr. by W. Strong [1833].

SONG OF THE SUN. Tr. 1817.

TELLEZ, FR. GABRIEL. b. 1570, d. 1648. Spanish writer.

TRAVELS OF THE JESUITS IN ETHIOPIA, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF KINGDOMS AND PROVINCES OF THE EMPIRE, THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE, etc. Tr. 1710.

TERENCE, PUBLIUS TERENTIUS. b. c. 195 B.C., d. 159 B.C. Roman comic poet.

ANDRIA THE FIRST COMEDIE OF TERENCE IN ENGLISH. Tr. by M. Kyffin, 1588.

COMEDIES MADE ENGLISH ... By several Hands [L. Eachard, etc.]. 1694.

FLOURES FOR LATINE SPEAKYING ... GATHERED OUTE OF TERENCE ... Translated into Englyshe, together with exposition and settyng foorth as well of suche latine wordes ... thought nedeful to be añoted, as also of diverse grammaticall rules ... compiled by N. Udall, 1553.

THE SECOND COMEDIE OF P. T. CALLED EUNUCHUS ... English and Latine: claused for such as would write or speak the pure language of this Author ... Tr. by Dr. Webbe, 1629.

TERENS IN ENGLYSH. [The translacyon out of Latin into Englysh of the fürst comedy of Tyrens called Andria.] [1520.]

The dramas of Terence influenced English comedy of intrigue after the Restoration.

TERESA, SAINT. b. 1515, d. 1582. Spanish nun.

THE FLAMING HART; or, THE LIFE OF THE GLORIOUS S. TERESA. Tr. by M. T., 1642.

TERTULLIAN (QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS TERTULLIANUS). b. 160, d. 230. Latin father of the Church.

ADDRESS OF TERTULLIAN TO SCAPULA TERTULLUS. Tr. by Sir D. Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, 1790.

THE SECONDE BOOKE OF TERTULLIAN unto his Wyf. Tr. by John Hoper, 1550.

TERTULLIAN'S APOLOGY, or DEFENCE OF THE CHRISTIANS ... Tr. by H. B.[rown] 1655.

TERTULLIAN'S PRESCRIPTION AGAINST HERETICKS. Tr. by J. Betty, 1722.

THEOCRITUS. b. 300, d. B.C. One of the most famous pastoral poets of antiquity.

THE CYCLOPS. Tr. in English Verse by Francis Hryland, 1763.

THE IDYLLIUMS OF THEOCRITUS ... Tr. [by T. Creech], 1684.

THE SHEPHERD'S STARRE, NOW OF LATE SEENE ... [By T. Bradshaw], 1591.

SIXE IDYLLIA. Tr. by E. D. 1588.

Influenced Tennyson's 'Œnone' Spenser's 'Shepheard's Calendar', Sidney's 'Arcadia', Milton's 'Lycidas', Arnold's 'Thyrsis'. Shelley's 'Adonais' is an echo of Moschus' 'Lament for Bion'.

THEOGNIS. c. 550 B.C. Greek poet.

THEOGNIS RESTITUTUS, partly verse and partly prose. Tr. by John H. Frere, 1842.

THEOPHRASTUS. b. 372, d. 286 B.C. Greek philosopher.

THE CHARACTERS OF THEOPHRASTUS; together with the characters of the Age, by La Bruyère, 1700.

THE CHARACTERS OF THEOPHRASTUS. Tr. by Eustace Budgell, 1713.

EPICTETUS MANUALL. Theophrastus Characters. Tr. by J. Healey, 1616.

The Characters of T. were imitated by La Bruyère in his 'Characters'; also by Hall, 'Characterismes of Virtues and Vices', Overbury, 'Characters ...'; and Earle, 'Microcosmography'.

THIERRY, JACQUES N. AUGUSTIN. b. 1795, d. 1856. French historian.

HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF ENGLAND BY THE NORMANS. 3 v. Tr. 1825.

TEN YEARS OF HISTORICAL STUDIES (1834). Tr. 1845.

NARRATIVES OF THE MEROVINGIAN TIMES PRECEDED BY CONSIDERATIONS ON THE HISTORY OF FRANCE (1840). Tr. [1845].

ESSAY ON THE HISTORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE THIRD ESTATE (1853). Tr. Rev. F. Wells, 1855.

THIERS, LOUIS ADOLPHE. b. 1797, d. 1877. French historian and littérateur.

HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 10 v. (1823-27). Tr. 1826? Tr. F. Shoberl. 5 v. 1838.

HISTORY OF THE CONSULATE AND THE EMPIRE. 20 v. (1845-62). Tr. D. F. Campbell, 1845-62.

HISTORICAL WORKS OF M. A. THIERS. Tr. T. W. Redhead. (Vol. 4 tr. H. Greenfield and others.) 4 v. 1845[-78.]

THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY, A REFUTATION OF COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM. Tr. 1848.

THE THREE KINGS OF COLOGNE. Ed. C. Horstmann. E.E.T.S. 1886.

THUCYDIDES. c. 471 B.C. Greek historian.

THE HYSTORY WRITTONE BY THUCIDIDES THE ATHENYON OF THE WARRE, WHICH WAS BETWENE THE PELOPNESIANS AND THE ATHENYANS.... Tr. oute of Frenche by T. Nicolls, 1550.

TIBULLUS (ALBIUS). b. 55 B.C., d. 18 B.C. Roman elegiac poet.

THE ELEGIES OF TIBULLUS, translated into English, with some observations on the original Design of Elegiac Verse, with the Characters of the most celebrated Greek ... Poets. By Mr. Dart, 1720.

TIECK, JOHANN LUDWIG. b. 1773, d. 1853. German poet and novelist.

THE ELVES. Tr. by Thos. Carlyle, 1845.

FAIR-HAIRED ECKBERT: etc. Tr. by Thos. Carlyle, 1874.

FERMER THE GENIUS. Tr. by F. Marckwort, 1837.

THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN.... Tr. 1860.

THE PICTURES; THE BETROTHING. Tr. 1825.

THE REBELLION IN THE CEVENNES. Tr. by Madame Burette, 1845.

THE ROMAN MATRON. Tr. 1845.

TALES FROM THE PHANTASUS (1812-17). Tr. by J. C. Hare, 1845.

TOLSTOI, LEO NIKOLAIEVITCH. b. 1828. Russian author and reformer.

ANNA KARENINA. (1878.) Tr. 1886.

CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH. (1856.) Tr. 1862.

THE COSSACKS. (1852.) Tr. 1878.

FAMILY HAPPINESS (1889). Tr. 1890.

FRUITS OF ENLIGHTENMENT. Tr. by E. J. Dillon, 1891.

INVADERS, THE (1861). Tr. [1888].

IVAN ILYICH AND OTHER STORIES. (1884-6.) Tr. 1887.

KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU. Tr. 1894.

THE KREUTZER SONATA. (1889.) Tr. 1890

LIFE. Tr. [1889].

LONG EXILE. Tr. 1888.

MY CONFESSION. Tr. [1890].

MY RELIGION. Tr. [1890].

NAPOLEON AND RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN. Tr. [1890].

POEMS IN PROSE. Tr. 1887.

RESURRECTION. (1899.) Tr. 1900.

RUSSIAN PROPRIETOR (1852-59). Tr. 1887.

SEBASTOPOL. (1855.) Tr. 1887.

TERRIBLE CZAR. Tr. 1892.

'A vivid romance of times of Ivan the Terrible'.

TWO PILGRIMS. Tr. 1889.

WAR AND PEACE, (1860.) Tr. 1886.

WHAT IS ART.... Tr. ... A. Maude. [1899.]

WHAT MEN LIVE BY. Tr. 1889.

WHAT TO DO. Tr. [1890].

WHERE LOVE IS THERE GOD IS. Tr. 1889.

WORK WHILE YE HAVE THE LIGHT. Tr. 1890.

Tale of the Early Christians.

TOWNELEY MYSTERIES. Cir. 15th century.

Ed. for Surtees Soc., 1836. Pollard, E.E.T.S., 1897

TRIAMOUR, SIR. See Sir Triamour.

TRISSINO, GIOVANNI GIORGIO. b. 1478, d. 1550. Italian littérateur and diplomatist.

SOFONISBA? Tragedy of 'Sofonisba' written in 1524. (No translation.)

The author of a critical work entitled 'La Poetica', and number of poems in Italian.

First example of blank verse borrowed by Surrey and used by Sackville in 'Gorboduc', and later by Marlowe for tragic drama.

TROY, ROMANCES OF.

FEVRE, RAOUL LE. RECUYELL OF THE HISTORYES OF TROYE. 1472.

TROY CYCLE.

THE GESTE HYSTORIALE OF THE DESTRUCTION OF TROY, THE TROY BOOK. Ed. Panton and Donaldson. E.E.T.S., 1869.

Originally written in Northern dialect. The poem is probably founded on a French version of Guido d. Colonne. The editors assign it to the same author as that of 'Morte Arthur', viz., Huchown of the Awle Ryale.

TURGENIEF, or TOURGUÉNIEF, IVAN SERGEEVICH b. 1818, d. 1883. Russian poet and novelist.

ANNALS OF A SPORTSMAN. Tr. 1885.

AN NOUCHKA. Tr. 1884.

ASS'YA. Tr. by Gersoni, 1887.

DESPERATE CHARACTER; AND OTHER TALES. Tr. 1901.

THE DIARY OF A SUPERFLUOUS MAN. Tr. 1884.

DIMITRI ROUDINE. (Roudine, 1855.) Tr. 1873.

DREAM TALES; AND PROSE POEMS. [1882, etc.]. Tr. 1897.

FATHERS AND SONS. (1861.) Tr. by E. Schuyler, 1867.

FIRST LOVE. Tr. by S. Jerrold, 1884.

LIZA (Hélène, 1860). Tr. by W. Ralston, 1869. Also Tr. as HOUSE OF GENTLEFOLK.

MUMU, AND DIARY OF A SUPERFLUOUS MAN. Tr. 1884.

ON THE EVE. (1859.) Tr. by C. E. Turner, 1871.

POEMS IN PROSE. Tr. 1883.

RUSSIAN LIFE IN THE INTERIOR. (1846.) Tr. 1855.

SMOKE, or LIFE AT BADEN (1867). Tr. 1868.

SPRING FLOODS. Tr. 1874.

UNFORTUNATE WOMAN. Tr. by Gersoni, 1887.

VIRGIN SOIL. (1876.) Tr. by T. S. Perry, 1877.

TURGOT, A. R. J. b. 1727, d. 1781. French economist.

LIFE AND WRITINGS OF TURGOT. Ed. W. W. Stephens, 1895.

REFLECTIONS ON THE FORMATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH. Tr. 1793.

UHLAND, JOHANN LUDWIG. b. 1787, d. 1862. German lyric poet.

THE POEMS OF L. U., now first translated. By A. Platt, 1848.

SONGS AND BALLADS. Tr. from Uhland, Körner, etc., 1838.

URFÉ, HONORE D'. b. 1568, d. 1625. French writer of romance.

ASTREA; a romance. (L'Astrée, 1608-26, 6 vols.) Tr. by a Person of Quality. 3 vols. 1657-58.

VALDES, FRANCISCO. Spanish author.

THE SERJEANT-MAJOR.... Englished by John Thorius, 1590.

VALERIUS MAXIMUS. B.C. 1st century. Roman historian.

ROMÆ ANTIQUÆ DESCRIPTIO; a view of the Religion, Laws, Manners, etc. of the Ancient Romans, from their Acts and Sayings. Tr. Samuel Speed, 1678.

VASARI, GIORGIO. b. 1511, d. 1574. Italian painter and writer upon art.

CHOICE OBSERVATIONS UPON PAINTING, together with Vasari's Lives of the most eminent Painters ... (1550). Tr. by Wm. Aglionby, 1719.

VEDAS. 1400 B.C.

THE BENGALA TRANSLATION OF THE VEDANT, [or rather an English Version by Rāmamohana Rāya ...], or Resolution of all the Veds ... 181[6?].

RIG VEDA-SANHITÂ, the sacred Hymns of the Brahmans.... Edited by Max Müller, etc. 6 v. 1849-74.

RIKSAMHITÂ: based on the Native traditional interpretation by H. H. Wilson, completed by E. B. Cowell, 4 v. 1854-57-66.

RIKSAMHITÂ: in metre, by Ralph Griffith.

SAMA VEDA. Translation of the Sanhita of the Sama Veda. By Rev. J. Stevenson, 1841.

Vêdâ (English plural Vedas), i.e. 'knowledge', cognate with the old English wit. The name of the sacred books or scriptures of the Brahmins, supposed to contain the fountain and sum of all essential knowledge. They consist of four parts, the Rig-Vêda, Sama-Vêda, Yajur-Vêda and Atharva-Vêda. Of these the Rig-Vêda is the most important. It is composed of religious lyrics or hymns, and is confessedly the oldest extant portion of Sanscrit literature, dating perhaps from 1400 to 1800 B.C.

VEGA, CARPIO LOPE FELIX DE. b. 1562, d. 1635. Spanish poet and dramatist.

ROMEO AND JULIET. Tr. 1770.

THE FATHER OUTWITTED: a Spanish Interlude. Tr. 1806.

Originator of the 'Cloak and Sword' drama. Imitated by Jonson and Fletcher. Influenced English drama after the Restoration through French sources.

'Perhaps the most amazing thing in all Spanish literature is the miraculous fecundity of Lope, to whom are credited nearly two thousand plays.'

VERCELLI BOOK (CODEX VERCELLENSIS).

Ed. (with tr.) J. M. Kemble, 1843-46.

This is a large MS. volume of Anglo-Saxon homilies among which are interspersed six poems. Discovered in 1822 by Dr. Blum. The hand-writing is of the 11th century, and the poems contained in this MS. are: 1. The Andreas. 2. Fates of the Apostles. 3. Address of the Soul to the Body. 4. Falseness of Men (a fragment). 5. Dream of the Road. 6. Elene.

VERLAINE, PAUL. b. 1844, d. 1896. French poet.

POEMS. Tr. G. Hall, 1895.

VERNE, JULES. b. 1828. French author.

ADRIFT IN THE PACIFIC. Tr. 1889.

ADVENTURES IN SOUTH AFRICA. Tr. [1891].

ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN HATTERAS. See (1) English at the North Pole and (2) Field of Ice.

AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY. Tr. Mrs. C. Hoey. 1898.

ARCHIPELAGO ON FIRE. Tr. 1886.

AROUND THE MOON. Tr. 1875.

AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. [1873.] Tr. 1873.

BEGUM'S FORTUNE. Tr. W. H. G. Kingston. [1879.]

BLOCKADE RUNNERS (1874). Tr. 1874.

CAPTAIN ANTIFER. Tr. 1895.

CASTLE OF THE CARPATHIANS (1893). Tr. 1893.

CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERS. The Exploration of the World [B.C. 505-A.D. 1700]. (The Great Navigators of the 18th century. The Great Explorers of the 19th century.) Tr. [by Dora Leigh, N. D'Anvers, etc]. 3 v. 1879-81.

CHILD OF THE CAVERN. Tr. W. H. G. Kingston, 1877.

CLIPPER OF THE CLOUDS. Tr. 1887.

CRYPTOGRAM (1882). Tr. 1882.

DICK SANDS. Tr. E. E. Frewer. [1878.]

DR. OX'S EXPERIMENT. Tr. 1874.

ENGLISH AT THE NORTH POLE. (1874.) Tr. [1874].

FAMILY WITHOUT A NAME. Tr. [1890].

FIELD OF ICE. Tr. 1876.

FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON. (1870.) Tr. 1870.

FLIGHT TO FRANCE. Tr. 1888.

FLOATING CITY AND THE BLOCKADE RUNNERS. Tr. H. Frith, 1876.

FOR THE FLAG. Tr. Mrs. C. Hoey, 1897.

FOUNDLING MICK. Tr. 1895.

FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON. (1873.) Tr. by L. Mercier and C. E. King, 1873.

FUR COUNTRY. Tr. H. Frith, 1879.

GIANT RAFT (1881). Tr. 1881.

GODFREY MORGAN (1883). Tr. 1883.

GREEN RAY. Tr. 1883.

HECTOR SERVADOC. Tr. E. E. Frewer, 1878.

JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE EARTH (1872). Tr. [1872].

KERABAN THE INFLEXIBLE: Part 1. The Captain of the Giudara. Part 2. Scarpante the Spy. Tr. 1884-85.

THE LOTTERY TICKET. Tr. 1887.

MARTIN PAZ. Tr. E. E. Frewer, 1876.

MATHIAS SANDORF. Tr. 1886.

MERIDIANA: THE ADVENTURES OF THREE ENGLISHMEN AND THREE RUSSIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA. Tr. 1873.

MICHAEL STROGOFF (1877). Tr. 1877.

MISTRESS BRANICAN. Tr. 1892.

THE MYSTERIOUS DOCUMENT. Tr. 1876.

MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. (1875.) Tr. by W. H. G. Kingston, 1875.

NORTH AGAINST SOUTH. Tr. 1888.

THE PURCHASE OF THE NORTH POLE. Sequel to 'From the Earth to the Moon'. Tr. [1890].

ROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. Tr. H. Frith. [1890.]

STEAM HOUSE. Tr. W. H. G. Kingston, 1881.

SURVIVORS OF THE CHANCELLOR. Tr. E. Frewer, 1875.

TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN. Tr. E. E. Frewer, 1880.

TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1872). Tr. 1872.

VANISHED DIAMOND. Tr. 1885.

VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. Tr. 3 v. 1876-77.

WINTER AMID THE ICE, etc. Tr. 1876.

THE WONDERFUL TRAVELLERS ... Containing 'A Journey into the Interior of the Earth' and 'Five Weeks in a Balloon'. Tr. by F. A. Malleson. [1877.]

Many of our present-day writers have imitated the mock-scientific romances of Verne.

VIGNY, ALFRED DE. b. 1799, d. 1864. French poet and novelist.

CONSPIRATORS. Tr. W. Hazlitt, 1873.

CINQ-MARS: or A CONSPIRACY UNDER LOUIS XIII (1826). Tr. 1846.

CHATTERTON (1835). Tr. [1835].

LIGHTS AND SHADES OF MILITARY LIFE. Tr. 1840.

VILLARI, PASQUALE. b. 1827. Italian scholar.

SAVONAROLA AND HIS TIMES (1859-61). Tr. 1863.

MACHIAVELLI AND HIS TIMES (1877). Tr. [1891].

FIRST TWO CENTURIES OF FLORENTINE HISTORY. Tr. 1894.

VILLON, FRANCOIS (FRANÇOIS DE MONTCORBIER). b. 1431, d. 1485 (?). French poet.

THE POEMS OF MASTER FRANÇOIS VILLON OF PARIS, now first done into English Verse by J. Payne, 1878.

VIRGIL (PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO). b. 70, d. 19 B.C. Latin poet.

THE BUCOLIKS OF PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO ... together with his Georgics. Tr. into [blank] verse by A. F.[raunce or Fleming], 1589.

THE ECLOGUES OF VIRGIL, with a commentary ... Tr. 1512.

THE EPIGRAMS OF P. V. M. AND OTHERS. With the praises of him and his workes. Also his Epitaphs composed by divers illustrious persons. And lastly the arguments of his workes. Englished by J. P.[erkethman], 1624.

Here fynyssheth the boke of Eneydos, compyled by Vyrgyle, whiche hathe be translated oute of latyne in to frenshe, and oute of frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me Wyll̃m Caxton, 1490.

[This is not a translation, but rather a compendium or abstract of the Æneid, with some additions.]

THE XIII BUKES OF ENEADOS OF THE FAMOUS POETE VIRGILL. Translated out of Latyne Verses into Scottish meter, bi ... Mayster G. Douglas ... Euery buke having hys perticular prologe. (1513.) [1553.]

THE WHOLE XII BOOKES OF THE ÆNEIDOS OF VIRGILL. Whereof the first ix and part of the tenth were translated by T. Phaër ... and the residue supplied, and the whole worke together newly set forth, by T. Twyne ... There is added ... Virgil's life out of Donatus, 1573.

VISCHARD DE SAINT REAL, C. See Réal.

VITRUVIUS (MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO). B.C. 60? Roman architect and writer.

DE ARCHITECTURA. Tr. R. Castell, 1730, and W. Newton, 1771-91.

The only ancient treatise on the subject of architecture that has come down to us. Highly esteemed as a text book.

VOITURE, VINCENT DE. b. 1598, d. 1648. French poet and wit.

SELECT LETTERS OF VOITURE. The first translated by Mr. Dryden and the rest by Mr. Dennis, 1696.

HISTORY OF ALEIDALIS AND ZELIDE ... Tr. 1678.

WORKS OF M. VOITURE. Tr. ... Mr. Dryden, Mr. Dennis, Dr. Drake, 1736.

LETTERS OF AFFAIRES, LOVE AND COURTSHIP. Englished by J. D(avies), 1657.

FAMILIAR AND COURTLY LETTERS ... made English by Mr. Dryden, etc. With twelve Select Epistles, out of Aristænetus ... 1700.

Served as a model to sundry writers after the Restoration as Dorset, Sedley. His letters and poems were considered by the critics of his own day as models of grace, but were marred by affectation. His style was greatly admired by Pope and Boileau.

VOLKSLIEDER. (People's Songs.) 14th-16th century.

Many of the Volkslieder have been translated in single poems in various anthologies. See 'German Anthologies,' etc.

VOLTAIRE, AROUET DE, FRANÇOISE MARIE. b. 1694, d. 1778. French philosopher and writer.

ANNALS OF THE EMPIRE FROM THE TIME OF CHARLEMAGNE. Tr. by D. Williams, H. Dowman, etc. 1781.

ANTI-MACHIAVEL. Tr. 1752.

BABOUC; or, THE WORLD AS IT GOES. Tr. 1754.

CANDIDUS; or, ALL FOR THE BEST. (1756.) Tr. 1759.

One of the 'Philosophical Romances'.

CRITICAL ESSAY ON DRAMATIC POETRY. Tr. 1760.

DEFENCE OF LORD BOLINGBROKE'S LETTERS; ON THE STUDY AND USE OF HISTORY. Tr. 1753.

ESSAY ON THE AGE OF LOUIS 14TH. Tr. by Mr. Lockman, 1739.

ESSAY ON THE CIVIL WARS OF FRANCE, AND ALSO ON THE EPIC POETRY OF THE EUROPEAN NATIONS, FROM HOMER TO MILTON. With a Discourse on Tragedy, 1727.

ESSAY ON UNIVERSAL HISTORY. Tr. 1754-57.

HENRIADE: an Epick poem. Tr. 1732.

HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE UNDER PETER THE GREAT. Tr. 1760-63.

HISTORY OF THE WAR OF 1741. Tr. 1756.

HISTORY OF THE AGE OF LOUIS 14TH. Tr. 1770.

MAHOMET: A tragedy (1740). Tr. by Mr. Miller, 1744. Philosophical Romance.

LETTERS CONCERNING THE ENGLISH NATION (1729). Tr. 1733.

MEROPE. (1734-43.) Tr. by T. Theobald, 1744.

THE METAPHYSICS OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON: or, A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE OPINIONS OF SIR I. N. AND MR. LEIBNITZ. Tr. by David E. Baker, 1747.

WORKS. Tr. by Dr. Smollett and T. Franklin, 35 vols. 1761-9.

[Smollett and Franklin were, for a valuable consideration induced by the booksellers to suffer their names to appear as the translators, but they had no further share in the matter.]

Voltaire's influence upon our literature is hardly calculable.

'If Voltaire exercised a greater attractive influence on the mind of Europe than any other man of his age, it was because he felt more than any other the influence of the age upon himself'.

WALDERE. MS., 9th century. Found 1860 in Royal Library, Copenhagen.

Ed. 'Two Leaves of King Waldere's Lay', text and tr. G. Stephens, 1860.

WALTER OF COVENTRY.

MEMORIALE. Ed. W. Stubbs. Vols. i-ii. Rolls Ser. 1872-73.

WERNER, FRIEDRICH L. Z. b. 1768, d. 1823. German poet, dramatist and novelist.

AT THE ALTAR. Tr. 1878.

BROKEN CHAINS. Tr. 1890.

BEACON FIRES. Tr. 1891.

FICKLE FORTUNE. Tr. 1881.

GOOD LUCK. Tr. 1890.

HERMANN. Tr. 1879.

HERO OF THE PEN. Tr. 1878.

NO SURRENDER. Tr. 1879.

PARTNERS. Tr. 1882.

RIVEN BONDS. Tr. 1877.

SACRED VOWS. Tr. 1878.

SUCCESS. Tr. 1876.

UNDER A CHARM. Tr. 1877.

WIDSITH (Far traveller).

'THE TRAVELLER'S SONG' or 'THE SCOP, OR SCALD'S TALE'. Ed., Tr. by H. Morley in Cook and Tinker's 'Select Tr. from Eng. Poetry', 1902.

WIELAND, CHRISTOPH MARTIN. b. 1733, d. 1813. German poet.

CRATES AND HIPPARCHIA. A Tale. Tr. by C. R. Cake, 1823.

THE GRACES: a Classical allegory ... Tr. [by S. T., i.e. Sarah Taylor, afterwards Austin], 1823.

HISTORY OF AGATHON. (1762-.) Tr. 1773.

OBERON. (1784-87.) Tr. by Wm. Sotheby, 1798.

PRIVATE HISTORY OF PEREGRINUS PORTEUS, THE PHILOSOPHER. Tr. 1796.

REASON TRIUMPHANT OVER FANCY, exemplified in the Adventures of Don Silvio de Rosalva. (1762-6.) Tr. 1773.

THE REPUBLIC OF FOOLS ... Tr. by H. Christmas, 1861.

SELECT FAIRY TALES. Tr. 1796.

SOCRATES OUT OF HIS SENSES. Tr. by Wintersted, 1771.

SYMPATHY OF SOULS. Tr. 1795.

WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY. b. 1095, d. 1142.

THE HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND (Gesta Regum), from the Arrival of the Saxons A.D. 449, to his own Times, A.D. 1143, by William of Malmesbury. Collected with authentic MSS., and Tr. from the original Latin by Rev. J. Sharpe. 1815.

Mentioned here as highly prized for accuracy, veracity, and critical judgment. One of the sources of our modern historians.

WILLIAM OF PALERNE. Cir. 14th century. [or, Wm. the Werwolf].

Ed. Prof. W. W. Skeat. Also Ed. Madden, Roxburghe Club, 1832. E.E.T.S., 1867.

WILLIBALD. b. 700?, d. 786. Bishop of Eichstadt.

Ed. EARLY TRAVELS IN PALESTINE.

Notices of travels, dictated to and written down by author's kinswoman, a nun of Heidenheim. Bohn. Ant. Lib., 1847.

WINCKELMANN, JOHN (JOHANN JOACHIM). b. 1717, d. 1768. German critic and writer on art.

HISTORY OF ANCIENT ART. Tr. from the German by G. Henry Lodge, 2 v. 1849.

REFLECTIONS ON THE PAINTING AND SCULPTURE OF THE GREEKS: with instructions for the Connoisseur and an Essay on Grace in Works of Art. Tr. by Henry Fuseli, 1765.

WYCLIF, JOHN. See Bible.

XENOPHON. b. 435, d. 354 B.C. Greek historian.

CYROPÆDIA: The Bookes of Xenophon, containing the Institution, Schole and Education of Cyrus. Tr. by William Bercker, 1567. The Bookes of X. containing the discipline ... Tr. [to the end of the sixth Book only]. By W. Barkar. [1560?].

ANABASIS. The Historie of Xenophon of the Retreat of the Ten Thousand, by John Bingham, 1623.

HELLENICS. Xenophon's History of Greece. Tr. by John Newman, 1685.

MEMORABILIA. The Banquet of X. done from the Greek ... with an introductory Essay concerning the Doctrine and Death of Socrates, by James Welwood, 1710.

XENOPHONS TREATISE OF HOUSHOLDE ryght counnyngly trãslated ... by Gentian Heruet, 1532.

YORK MYSTERIES. Cir. 1378.

Ed. Lucy T. Smith, 1885.

ZAPPI, GIAMBATTISTA F. b. 1667, d. 1719. Italian poet and jurist.

SONNETS. Tr. T. H. Croker, 1755.

ZEND AVESTA. 1200-800 B.C. Translated by Arthur Henry Bleek. 3 volumes in 1. 1864.

[Comprises the ancient sacred writings of the Parsees.]

ZOLA, ÉMILE. b. 1840, d. 1902. French novelist.

The Rougon-Macquart Series. (Les Rougon Macquart; histoire Naturelle et Sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire. 1871-1893.)

CLAUDE'S CONFESSION. Tr. by G. D. Cox, 1888.

1. THE FORTUNES OF THE ROUGONS. (La Fortune de Rougon). (1886.) Tr. 1871.

2. IN THE SWIM. (La Curée). Tr. 1887.

3. THE FAT AND THE THIN. (Le Ventre de Paris). (1888.) Tr. 1888.

4. THE CONQUEST OF PLASSONS. (La Conquête de Plassan). (1887.) Tr. 1887-8.

5. ABBÉ MOURET'S TRANSGRESSION. (Le Faute de l'Abbé Mouret). Tr. 1886-8.

6. HIS EXCELLENCY EUGÈNE ROUGON. Tr. 1887-90.

7. THE DRAM SHOP. (1885.) (L'Assommoir.) Tr. 1897.

8. A LOVE EPISODE. (Page d'amour). (1886.) Tr. 1886-9.

9. NANA. Tr. 1880.

THE DOWNFALL (La Débâcle). (1892.) Tr. 1892.

THE DREAM. (1888.) (Le Rêve.) Tr. 1893.

FRUITFULNESS. (1899.) (Fécondité.) Tr. 1900.

GERMINAL; or, MASTER AND MAN (1885). Tr. 1885-88.

GIRL IN SCARLET. Tr. 1888.

HIS MASTERPIECE. (L'Œuvre). Tr. 1886-88.

HOW JOLLY LIFE IS! (Joie de vivre.) (1883.) Tr. 1886-88.

LADIES' PARADISE. Tr. by F. Belmont. 3 v.

LOURDES. (1894.) Tr. 1894.

MADELINE FERAT. Tr. 1888-89.

MONEY. (L'argent). (1891.) Tr. 1894.

PARIS. (1897.) Tr. 1898.

PIPING HOT. (Pot-Bouille). Tr. 1885-88.

ROME. (1895.) Tr. 1896.

RUSH FOR THE SPOIL. (Curée.) Tr. 1885.

SOIL. (La Terre). Tr. 1888.

SOLDIER'S HONOUR, AND OTHER STORIES. Tr. 1887.

STORIES FROM NINON. (Contes à Ninon.) (1858-1874.) Tr. 1895.

THÉRÈSE RAQUIN. Tr. 1885.

WORK. (Travail.) (1901.) Tr. 1901.

The naturalistic work of Zola has had, during recent years, a wide influence upon our modern novelists.

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