-from 1800 to 1850, that is, half a century-in imagining that it had obtained from the pen of Coleridge a translation of Schiller's Wallenstein, creditable to English literature, both from its poetical merit, and its general fidelity to the spirit of the original work. On the contrary, this critic, who signs himself G. H. E., endeavors to show that "it would have been better for the poet, for the reader, and for the credit of the translator, had Mr. C. refrained from meddling with the work, or confined himself to the task of a faithful interpretation." In pursuance of this enterprise, he brings forward a certain number of unquestionable errors in the sense of the German; errors, doubt. less, well known from the first to students of Schiller, and admirers of Coleridge (that the report of them reached the German author himself, together with the first news that his noble play had been done into English, we are credibly informed by one who had a personal acquaintance with him), and which have not been hitherto generally supposed to prevent Mr. Coleridge's version from being, on the whole, a highly meritorious performance. Of these errors we shall proceed to lay a list before the reader; premising, however, that the greater number of the substitutions to be found in Mr. C.'s pages are not, as G. H. E. pronounces them, mere imbecility and verbiage, but contain a sufficiently pertinent meaning, and make up, in a homelier liveliness, what they lack of Schiller's sedate dignity—that of some others the worst that can be said is, that the meaning is strained and far-sought; and that there are but a few instances in which, it must be confessed, the translator has trespassed against good sense, as well as forgotten the German language: "Brimful of poetry, o'er the briny ocean, home NOTE 2. We now proceed to give a list of verbal errors in Mr. Coleridge's version; the translation has remained entirely unaltered from the first edition to the last. West. Review, July, 1850. Art. 3. Page 353: "Der Posten," rendered "travelling-bills," instead of an "item" or "article in an account." PICO., SCH., COL.-Act i. Scene 2. Page 353: "Geschmeidig," "pliant, mistaken for "geschmiedet," "hammered out." PICO., SCH., COL.-Act i. Scene 4. 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