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

by William James Harris

MANUAL OF THE HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE. Tr. R. Derechef, 1898.

BRUNO, GIORDANO. b. 1548, d. 1600. Eminent Italian philosopher.

THE EXPULSION OF THE TRIUMPHANT BEAST. (Spaccio della Bestia Trionfante.) Tr. by Wm. Morehead, 1713.

BUFFON, GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE. b. 1707, d. 1788. French naturalist and philosopher.

NATURAL HISTORY, GENERAL AND PARTICULAR, illustrated, and with occasional notes and observations by the Translator William Smellie. (1749-67) 1781. (The Edition of 1812 is the only complete English Translation.)

An extraordinary impulse was given by Buffon to the study of natural history in his own country, and his work had a great influence upon English naturalists.

BURGER, GOTTFRIED AUGUST. b. 1747, d. 1794. German poet.

THE CHASE, AND WILLIAM AND HELEN: two ballads from the German of G. A. B. [By Sir W. Scott.] 1796.

LEONORA (with the Text). Tr. by W. R. Spencer, 1796.