. Thomas Henry Huxley; a sketch of his life and work. Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895. Style 217 To put it in another way : it would be extremely easy to translate any of Huxley's writings into French or German, and they would lose extremely little of the personal flavour of their author. The present writer has just been reading French translations of Huxley's Physiography and Crayfish, made at different times by different translators. At first reading it seems almost miraculous how identically the effect produced by the original is reproduced by the French rendering, but the secret is really
. Thomas Henry Huxley; a sketch of his life and work. Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895. Style 217 To put it in another way : it would be extremely easy to translate any of Huxley's writings into French or German, and they would lose extremely little of the personal flavour of their author. The present writer has just been reading French translations of Huxley's Physiography and Crayfish, made at different times by different translators. At first reading it seems almost miraculous how identically the effect produced by the original is reproduced by the French rendering, but the secret is really no secret at all. Huxley pro- duced his effects by the ordering of his ideas and- not by the ordering of his words. From the technical point of view of literary craftsmanship, he cannot be assigned a high place ; he is one of our great English writers, but he is not a great writer of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mitchell, P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers), Sir, 1864-1945. New York, Putnam
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