Profits Anglais. Par C. A. Sainte-Benve. Notes de Hardress O'Grady.
Preface d'Andre Turquet. (J. M. Dent and Sons. Is. 6d.)—Profi.la Anglaisis a prettily getup little reprint from the works of Sainte-Beuve. Benjamin Franklin, Mary Queen of Scots, Gibbon, Cheste7rReld;aiid-Covjpiir are here presented to us. It is said that when Taine was dying he asked that swim one should read to him out of Sainte-Beuve's celebrated "Lundis," "pour entendre quelquechose de clair." -The English sketches reprinted in the present volume are too dear, too ele•finitei in out- line to do justice to English -models, who look their, best in their native atmosphere, which is a little misty. Of .them 'all perhaps "Cowper" is the most interesting and charming portrait. Prose translations of his best-known poems will delight and amuse the reader. At the end of the book we find several -translations, or rather, as their author called them, "imitations," from Words- worth of amazing skill and delicacy. The perfume of the poetry is, of course, lest, but like imitation dowers they bear.a -wonderful likeness to, may we say "Nature,"- and yet premiss() the analogy.
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