This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...whilst many other minor defects are apparent in it. The style is very unliterary, and is chiefly suggestive of staunch integrity and strong determination. Few folks appear to be aware that of the one thousand and one litterateurs who have essayed the impossible task of transmuting into English equivalents the mingled ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...whilst many other minor defects are apparent in it. The style is very unliterary, and is chiefly suggestive of staunch integrity and strong determination. Few folks appear to be aware that of the one thousand and one litterateurs who have essayed the impossible task of transmuting into English equivalents the mingled pathos and humour of Heine's poesy, the genial 'Hans Breitmann' has been nearest the goal. And in calligraphy, few of his countrymen have so nearly reached our ideas of excellence. Not, indeed, that Mr. Leland's hand is free from fault, but we, like Suetonius with the Caesars, elect to mention virtues as well as vices, when we get the chance. The author of the 'Breitmann Ballads' indites a style pleasant to look on, and, but for its tendency to flourish, of a poetic, quaint form: a style replete with scriptory chiaro-oscuro, and very suggestive of originality and imagination. A little more compression, less dash, and a greater regard for the minor technicalities of our science, and we should have awarded a very high position among our calligraphical candidates to Charles G. Leland. If the man who causes an extra blade of grass to spring up is deserving of gratitude, what does not Count de Lesseps deserve, who has brought the Eastern world many days' distance nearer to the Western. All honour to him and the country which aided him. We have not yet heard, however, that the empire which has most benefited by his scheme has overwhelmed the great engineer with marks of its gratitude. Probably it is saving up a portion of the profits accruing to the nation from the Suez Canal for a marble monument to its constructor when he dies. As regards the calligraphy of Ferdinand de Lesseps, nothing very striking in it calls for notice: it is a free, fluent, cl...
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