The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics / A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature

by William James Harris

ONE HUNDRED SONGS, with translations by W. Young, 1847.

SONGS OF BERANGER, translated by the author of the 'Exile of Idria', 1837.

BERGERAC, SAVINIEN CYRANO DE. b. 1620, d. 1655. French litterateur and dramatic author.

SATYRICAL CHARACTERS AND HANDSOME DESCRIPTIONS IN LETTERS. Tr. from the French, by a Person of Honour. 1658.

HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN THE SUN AND MOON, done into English by Tho., St. Serf, Gent. 1659.

COMICAL HISTORY OF THE STATES AND EMPIRES OF THE WORLD OF THE MOON AND SUN; newly Englished by A. Lovell, 1687. 1st Tr. 1638.

VOYAGE TO THE MOON WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE SOLAR WORLD, done from the French by S. Derrick. 1753.

To this philosophical romance on the system of Descartes, Swift is supposed to have been greatly indebted: the journey to the moon being the origin of Swift's Brobdignag, and that to the sun suggesting the voyage to Laputa.

BERGSOL, WILHELM GORGEN. b. 1835. Danish author.

BRIDE OF ROERVIG. Tr. N. Francis, 1877.