upon the table warned the translator that he might continue his lecture.

The lesson began and concluded with a slight and silent obeisance; and during thirteen months thus spent, the count scarcely spoke as many words to the assistant of his studies.

THE CZAR AND THE MONK.

IGNORANCE BETTER PAID THAN
KNOWLEDGE.

Sir John Hill contracted to translate Swammerdam's work on Insects for fifty guineas. After the agreement with the bookseller, he recollected that he did not understand a single word of the Dutch language, nor did there exist a French translation.

The work, however, was not the Peter the Great having directed less closely attended to on account the translation of Puffendorff's In- of this small obstacle. Sir John troduction to the Knowledge of the bargained with another translator States of Europe into the Russian for twenty-five guineas. The second language, a monk to whom this translator was precisely in the same translation was committed, pre- situation as the first-as ignorant, sented it to the emperor when fin- though not so well paid, as the ished, who turned over the leaves, knight. and exclaimed with an indignant He re-bargained with a third,who air, "Fool! what did I order you perfectly understood the original, to do? Is this a translation?" for twelve guineas. So that the Then referring to the original, he translators who could not translate showed him a paragraph in which a word feasted on venison and turthe author had spoken with great tle, while the modest drudge, whose asperity of the Russians, but the name never appeared to the world, translator had omitted it. "Go in- broke in patience his daily bread. stantly," said the czar, "and execute my orders rigidly. It is not to flatter my subjects that I have this book translated and printed, but to instruct and reform them."

THE WELSH CURATE AND TILLOT

SON'S SERMONS.

A Welsh curate, being asked how he managed to preach sermons so far above his own powers of composition, replied, "I have a volume of sermons by one Archbishop Tillotson, which I translate into Welsh, and afterwards re-translate into English, after which the archbishop himself would not know his own compositions."

66 VICAR OF WAKEFIELD" IN FRENCH.

The Vicar of Wakefield has been translated perhaps as many as fifty times into French, but always in a blundering manner, in consequence of the ignorance of the translators of the meaning of certain phrases. In one case, for instance, a translator has completely misunderstood the meaning of the words, "Moses flayed alive," and rendered it," Moses almost devoured alive by fleas."

Lately, however, the worthy Vicar has had justice done to him by the translation of M. Charles Nodier, who is well acquainted with the idiom of English literature.

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