The class had finished translating from their Latin author, and had just commenced writing an exercise, when a note was passed over to Jack Vance from the desk behind; it was short and to the point: "Will you fight me after twelve at the back of the pavilion?

It was but the other dayin order to fill a gap in a paper I was writingI desired to know the name of an author who is obscure although his work has been translated into nearly all languages.

One of the most quotedand also mis-quotedproverbs of the wise Solomon says, as translated in the authorized version: "Where there is no vision, the people perish."

But if an authority must be produced, ask of the man who saw Drusilla translated to heaven: the same man will aver he saw Claudius on the road, dot and carry one.

Now, judge for yourself of the good sense which is shown in translating by the word dinner, which must of necessity mean the chief meala Roman word which represents a fancy meal, a meal of caprice, a meal which few people took.

Herman Boerhaave was always designed, by his father, for the ministry, and, with that view, instructed by him in grammatical learning, and the first elements of languages; in which he made such a proficiency, that he was, at the age of eleven years, not only master of the rules of grammar, but capable of translating with tolerable accuracy, and not wholly ignorant of critical niceties.

" Then he spoke to the chief, and translated for me.

Translated out of Dutch into English by W.P. London.

Translate as before, but give most of your time to rapid oral translation for a real or imaginary American hearer.

How much you should translate at a given time depends upon your leisure and your adeptness.

Treitschke's history is not available in English: Sybel's has been translated under the title, The Founding of the German Empire by William I. vols.

The little anachronism of translating after being translated you will also pardon; and talking of the tomb, let us return to Sannazarius.

Translation has continued to this day; almost every book of outstanding importance in world literature is translated within a few months of its appearance, and on the average these translations are of a fairly high level.

BOONE, DANIEL, a famous American backwoodsman; d. 1822, aged 84. BOÖTES (the ox-driver or waggoner), a son of Ceres; inventor of the plough in the Greek mythology; translated along with his ox to become a constellation in the northern sky, the brightest star in which is Arcturus.

Here is a portion of the Fifty-first Psalm, translated amongst others into English verse by John Croke, Master in Chancery, in the reign of Henry VIII.

It was translated before publication into nine languages, and published simultaneously in eight of the principal cities of the world.

"I am informed Mr. Dryden is now translating of Virgil; and although I must own it is a fault to forestall or anticipate the praise of a man in his labours, yet, big with the greatness of the work, and the vast capacity of the author, I cannot here forbear saying, that Mr. Dryden, in the translating of Virgil, will of a certain make Maro speak better than ever Maro thought.

Translated on p. 66, 'Poison came, Bion,' &c. 1. 13.

Very few of the lyrics of Pushkin have been included, for the reason that the great founder of Russian poetry has been more widely translated than any other Russian poet, and is therefore available in several languages.

Conversation however languished, as every remark had to be translated through two languages before it could be understood by the person to whom it was addressed; and brilliant as it might have been in the first place, it lost its freshness in being passed around through Russian, German, and English to us.

The Romaunt of the Rose, is a translation from the French: this poem was begun by William de Lerris, and continued by John de Meun, both famous French poets; it seems to have been translated about the time of the rise of Wickliffe's Opinions, it consisting of violent invectives against religious orders.