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the Autobiography should have acquired for him a fame such as none of
his much vaunted works could ever have secured for themselves.
Mr. Gust has founded his translation upon the learned Italian texts
of Professor Orazio Bacci
which appeared in 1901,
and of Signori Rusconi and Valeri, both of
and his principal object
in the main very
happily achieved has been to reproduce in English the Italian spirit
of the original. He regrets, indeed, that it is impossible to translate
into an English equivalent the Florentine slang used so volubly by the
narrator himself, and, pleading that the ephemeral nature of such argot
makes its use inexpedient, professes pity for those to whom the original
is a sealed book. Still, for even exact students of Italian, the slang of
sixteenth century Florence must have lost its real savour, and we who
cannot follow its subtilties are not badly off with the directness and
forcefulness of the translator's renderings. To this careful translation he
has added many useful and illuminating footnotes ; a full bibliography
(compiled by Mr. Sidney Churchill) of Cellini literature in ten European
languages ; a list of Cellini's works derived from contemporary documents ;
and a catalogue, founded chiefly on the researches of M. Eugene Plon
and Mr. Churchill, of pieces by the master still extant.
The book, which is in two volumes, is well illustrated by over sixty
half-tone plates, chiefly of important works by Cellini.
JAMES
L. CAW.
THE ITINERARY OF JOHN LELAND IN OR ABOUT THE YEARS 1535-1543.
Parts IX., X., and XI. With two Appendices, a Glossary, and General
Index. Edited by Lucy Toulmin Smith. Vol. V. Pp. xxii, 352. With
two Maps. Foolscap 4to. London : George Bell & Sons. 1910.
1 8s. nett.
THE editor and publishers of this important work deserve the utmost commendation
on the successful termination of their united undertaking. As
each volume appeared we have not withheld in the pages of this Review
(vols. v. 98-9, 478, vi. 294-6) our admiration for the pains and skill that
Miss Toulmin Smith has exercised in making her labours as editor useful
to her readers and just
to her author. The last volume of the series now
before us shows, as it was to be expected, a continuation of her former care
and painstaking research in doing ample justice
to her subject.
Though this volume covers a wide field, comprising what may be
regarded as a separate tour of the indefatigable antiquary, it is of interest to north-country students
special
inasmuch as it includes the counties of
Northumberland, Durham, Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire and Yorkshire. Leland's route
parts of
in the northern counties has
been set out in an excellent map, showing the order in which he visited the
various places, the base from whence he started and the direction of his
journey home. The bishops and bishopric of Durham, like those of
Lincoln, Worcester, Hereford and Canterbury, come in for a full discussion,
and particulars are also given of several of the religious houses.