Identifier: scribnersmagazin16newy (find matches)
Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Carolus Ouran. THE POET WITH THE MANDOLIN- PAINTED BY CAROLUS DURAN By Philip Gilbert Hamerton I HAVE given the title of this picturein the Eng-hsh most nearly approach-ing to the original that I could find,but it is always unsatisfactory to aFrench scholar to translate d by with.There are delicacies in language that areindescribable in another tongue. I can-not explain, in English, why I dislike iritlias a substitute for <)^ but to my feelingit is awkward and inatlequate. The• See Froutispiece. proper French translation for with isnot d but avec, yet everyone who knowsFrench feels instinctively that avec, ina title of this kind would convey a dif-ferent idea. Perhaps it would sepa)atethe poet more from the instrument heis holding. However this may be, theFrench title is perfectly elegant, euj^ho-nious, and, in itself, musical like the in-strument in the picture. It is Le Poetea la Mandoline. THE POET IVITH THE MANDOLIN 233 The picture was first exhil)ite(l in1894 at the well-kno

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