Gunaz Irate Snort _sroms"—Baited by Deco Pettocllg: "Ernest Benn: Li, ande One of the mest important Titerary ventures "of the present century has been the publication of large quantities of foreign. litera ture, translated into English, nol only of the larger items of fiction, bhut of the short story aswell: Tt used to be said that the knowledge of foreign languages was necessary, in order that a knowledge of other perature than that of one's nati vity might be obtained, And it was true in those days when translation was not undertaken 20 freely as Tt now. 'The translation of short stories, however, enables a reader to obtain a very great insight, not only into contemporaneous writing, But into' the history of the art throughout the whole of its national period would be to print so much tone style that the wonderful progress made when once the shackles of Boccaccio had been thrown off, woud be without due emphasis. The book is not one to be read at one sitting. Firstly, because it is too large, and, secondly, because too, hurried a reading would cause much of the best to be lost. But it is a volume which it is a pleasure to have, and a source of entertainment for a very long time indeed—
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