The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852Various
History
The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852
Various
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Science -- History -- Periodicals
MISS CHARLOTTE VANDENHOFF, whose professional tour in the United States
will be remembered by old play-goers, has written a piece under the
title of _Woman's Heart_, possessing considerable poetical merits, and
herself sustained the character of the heroine in its representation.
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MR. CARLYLE, is engaged upon a new work in history, but its subject is
not disclosed, nor its extent.
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MRS. ROBINSON, who left New-York several months ago to visit her
relations in Germany, writes from Berlin to the _Athenæum_, under date
of February 2, as follows:
"A work appeared in London last summer with the following
title: _Talvi's History of the Colonization of America_,
edited by William Hazlitt, in two volumes. It seems proper
to state that the original work was written under favorable
circumstances _in German_, and published in Germany. It
treated only of the colonization of _New England_: and that
only stood on its title-page. The above English publication,
therefore, is a mere translation, and it was made without
the consent or knowledge of the author. The very title is a
misnomer; all references to authorities are omitted; and the
whole work teems with errors, not only of the press, but
also of translation,--the latter such as could have been
made by no person well acquainted with the German and
English tongues. For the work in this form, therefore, the
author can be in no sense whatever responsible.
TALVI."
From a more recent number of the _Athenæum_ it appears that Mr. Hazlitt
is not himself the translator of the original work; and the
responsibility, not only of the translation, but of all the faults
charged which might seem more especially editorial, is transferred by
him to another. Mr. Hazlitt, we believe, is a son of the great critic of
the last age.
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