Passé de tristes nuits;"
adding:
"Dans ce peu de paroles Mr. de Coulanges [its author] dit beaucoup de choses, et fait comprendre l'intrigue du Cardinal avec la Reine."
I can find no account of this Reverend Cardinal. Who was he (if anybody), and what is his history? And who was the author of these odd memoirs of the Swedish Queen?
At page 228. of "Notes and Queries" I see mention of an English translation of Danish ballads by Mr. Borrow. Is there any translation of Norwegian ballads? Many of them are very beautiful and characteristic, and well worthy of an able rendering into our own language, if there were any one to undertake it. There is also much beauty in the Norwegian national music, of which a pretty but limited collection, the Norske Field-Melodier, arranged by Lindeman, is published at Christiania.
What is the best method of reaching Iceland? and what really good books have been published on that country within the last twenty years?
William E. C. Nourse.
London, April 22. 1851.