Spanish fiction -- Translations into English; Spanish poetry -- Translations into English
[106] _Causeries du lundi_ (Troisième Edition, Paris), vol. iii., p.
238. See also M. Anatole France, _La Vie littéraire_ (Paris, 1889),
p. 194. "Longtemps, longtemps après la mort de Florian, Rose Gontier,
devenue la bonne mère Gontier, amusait ses nouvelles camarades comme
une figure d'un autre âge. Fort dévote, elle n'entrait jamais en scène
sans faire deux ou trois fois dans la coulisse le signe de la croix.
Toutes les jeunes actrices se donnaient le plaisir de lutiner celle qui
jouait si au naturel _Ma tante Aurore_; elles l'entouraient au foyer et
lui refaisaient bien souvent la même question malicieuse:
--Mais est-ce bien possible, grand'maman Gontier, est-il bien vrai que
M. de Florian vous battait?
Et, pour toute réponse et explication, toute retenue qu'elle était, la
bonne maman Gontier leur disait dans sa langue du dix-huitième siècle:
--C'est, voyez-vous, mes enfants, que celui-là ne payait pas."
[107] Rius (_op. cit._, vol. ii., 319) mentions three editions of
Pellicer's translation, the latest being dated 1830. A reprint is
said to have been issued at Paris in 1841. On p. xvii of the 1814
edition--the only one within my reach--Casiano Pellicer suggests that
Cervantes introduced Diego Durán into the _Galatea_ under the name of
Daranio: "Puedese presumir que el Daranio, cuyas bodas refiere tan
menudamente, sea Diego Durán, á quien supone natural de Toledo ó de su
tierra, y alaba también en su canto de Calíope de gran poeta."
[108] The title of this arrangement is _Los Enamorados ó Galatea y sus
bodas. Historia pastoral comenzada por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,
Abreviada después, y continuada y últimamente concluida por D. Cándido
María Trigueros_ (Madrid, 1798).
[109] The only translations of the _Galatea_ are the following:--
English (by Gordon Willoughby James Gyll), London, 1867, 1892.
German (by F. Sigismund), Zwickau, 1830; (by A. Keller and F. Notter),
Stuttgart, 1840; (by F. M. Duttenhofer), Stuttgart, 1841.
[110] Gyll's name is very naturally omitted from the _Dictionary of
National Biography_. His publications, so far as I can trace them, are
as follows:
(1) _The Genealogy of the family of Gylle, or Gill, of Hertfordshire,
Essex and Kent, illustrated by wills and other documents_ (London,
1842). This pamphlet is an enlarged reprint of a contribution to
_Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica_, vol. viii.
(2) _A Tractate on Language_ (London, 1859): a second revised edition
appeared in 1860.
(3) _History of the Parish of Wraysbury, Ankerwycke Priory, and Magna
Charta Island; with the History of Horton, and the Town of Colnbrook,
Bucks._ (London, 1862.)
(4) _Galatea: A pastoral romance. By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Literally translated from the Spanish_ (London, 1867). A posthumous
reprint was issued in 1892.
(5) _The Voyage to Parnassus: Numantia, a Tragedy; The Commerce of
Algiers, by Cervantes. Translated from the Spanish...._ (London, 1870).
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