THE HISTORY OF THE STATE AND PEOPLE OF ABDERA, IN THRACE.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF C. M. VON WIELAND,
BY THE REV. H. CHRISTMAS.
In Two Volumes, post 8vo, cloth, price 18s.
OBSERVER.—"As a prose satire, the History of the Abderites yields only in breadth of humour and pungency of wit to Dean Swift's immortal Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver; and of works of that class, we know of none in any language that can compare with either of the two."
LONDON REVIEW.—"Here is enjoyment for many a Christmas to come, for many thousands of English boys, and many thousands of English men and women. Unfortunately for the world, Pisistratus Caxton departed this life without having made any contribution towards the great history of human folly, save, indeed, by the records of his own. Mr. Christmas has given us something even better in his translation of Wieland's Abderites; and in the simplest, most racy, and vernacular English, has enriched our literature with another character of the family dear to mankind, of the Quixotes, Gullivers and other human foils of human self-love and vanity. If the addition to our shelves of a book to delight the young and instruct the old, overflowing with wit, fun, drollery inexpressible, wisdom, depth and knowledge, is an achievement deserving of national thanks, we undertake to convey our share to Mr. Christmas, fearing only lest we should not have thanked him sufficiently."
MORNING HERALD.—"There is, indeed, about it, nothing of the stiffness of a translation; and the work reads with all the ease and freedom of an original composition."