Sancho Panza's Proverbs, and others which OCCUP in Don Quixote.
With a literal English translation, notes, and an introduction by Ulick Ralph Burke. (Pickering.)—Were it not that so much has been written on the proverbs of all nations, it might be interesting to make this modest little collection the peg for an article, comparing the Spanish proverbs which Mr. Burke has culled from Don Quixote with those of our own and other countries. In one or two instances Mr. Burke haa pointed out the more striking coincidences, though we think that once he has been led astray by a fancied likeness when he appends the French proverb, "Los absents ont toujours tort" to a Spanish one which tells us that "the absent feel and fear every ill." We should have thought the French saying pointed to the treatment of those who being absent can- not defend themselves, while the Spanish referred to the feeling of nervousness which is brought out in Horace's address to Mmcenas in the first epode. We need hardly detain our readers by picking out the most characteristic proverbs from the 286 in this volume, but we may assure them that they will find many which contain much wit and sense in a narrow compass.
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