+ + Lit. D. 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 190w.
Bible—Proverbs; tr. out of the original Hebrew and with former translations diligently compared and revised. $1. Century.
This little volume uniform with the “Thumb nail series” contains for introduction a chapter on “The proverbs of the Hebrews” from Dr. Lyman Abbott’s “The life and literature of the ancient Hebrews.”
Bible. Book of Ecclesiastes: a new metrical translation, with an introduction and explanatory notes by Paul Haupt. 50c. Hopkins.
“The translation here presented is a good one—accurate, fresh, suggestive, and rhymical. The conclusions embodied in this work ... seem to rest upon too uncertain and subjective grounds.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ – Am. J. Theol. 10: 323. Ap. ’06. 190w.
Bielschowsky, Albert. Life of Goethe; authorized tr. from the German by W: A. Cooper. 3v. ea. **$3.50. Putnam, v. 1, ready.
A three-volume life of Goethe, with full critical estimates, designed for the student rather than for the general reader. The author devoted a life-time to the work and based it upon material made accessible by the opening of the Goethe archives and by recent philological investigation. The first volume covers the period from 1749–1788,—from Goethe’s birth to his return from Italy.
“Mr. Cooper approves himself a competent German scholar, and a writer of sound English as well. His rendering is now and then a trifle loose.”