242 Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. [No. 3, 



Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Professor Eastwick has addressed us the following letter on the 

 subject of the criticisms by the Westminster Eeview of the new 

 Edition of his translation of Bopp's Grammar. He certainly could 

 not have adduced stronger testimony than he has in favour of his 

 character as a translator. 



Haileybury College, March 15th, 1855. 



Sir, — I observe, in a late Number, you have noticed my new 

 edition of Bopp's Comparative Grammar with the remarks made by 

 the Westminster Eeview. Will you permit me to state that those 

 remarks are malicious and untrue. In the first place only the 1st 

 Volume of the 2nd Edition has appeared, whereas they wilfully 

 mistake the old Edition of the 2nd and 3rd Vols, for a new Edition. 

 Secondly, they wilfully insist on misprints as mistakes. E. g. in 

 one instance J. Grimm's name which is quoted hundreds of times is 

 misprinted E. Grimm, and they maliciously assert that it perpetu- 

 ally recurs in this erroneous manner of writing. They pretend that 

 I have made Dummler the Berlin Printer, the Author of some of 

 Bopp's works, simply because in a few cases, where Bopp's refers to 

 them in these words " in meiner Abhandlung" (Berlin, bei Dumm- 

 ler) I have translated " in my treatise (Berlin, by Dummler)" 

 meaning, published by Dummler, where there could be no possibility 

 of a mistake. 



It would occupy too much of your time, if I was to go through 

 the eight or nine passages, which they have brought forward— 

 seriatim, but I hope it will be sufficient to quote the words of Pro- 

 fessor Bopp himself, of Professor H. H. Wilson and of Dr. Max. 

 Miiller, the three perhaps greatest philologists living. The first says, 

 " I am perfectly satisfied with your translation, and have reason to 

 thank you for its clearness." Prof. Wilson says, " the translation 

 has been made with great scrupulousness and care, and it has re- 

 quired no ordinary pains to render in English, with perspicuity and 

 fidelity, the not-unfrequently difficult and obscure style of the 

 original." Dr. M. Miiller says, " I have frequently compared your 

 translation with the original, and I can conscientiously say, that 

 few books have been so faithfully rendered into English from German 



