We have received two volumes (IX., X.) of the Works
of Heinrich Heine (W. Heinemann, 5s. net each). The publisher explains that the prose works, extending to eight volumes, were translated by Mr. C. G. Leland; that this gentleman died before he could make any progress with the poems ; that some one had to be found to undertake the work, and that it was accordingly handed over to Mr. T. Brooksbank. From his pen we have Vol. IX., containing, with other minor items, " Dream Pictures," " Romances," " Sonnets," and the two " Cycles" of the " North Sea." Mr. Brookabank did not live to complete more than this volume. His work was taken up by Mrs. W. B. Macdougall (" Margaret Armour"), to whom we owe Vol. X., of which the most important contents are " Tannhauser," " Romances," and " Poems for the Times." Two more volumes are to follow. We have not as yet been able to take more than a passing glance at the translations, without comparing them with the originals. So regarded, they are distinctly pleasing. It may, we hope, prove possible to return to the consideration of them when the edition is complete.
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