Apart  from  the  authorised  German  version  of  the  novels,  begun
in  Berlin  in  1904,  the  only  other  German  translation  of  which  I  have
note  is  that  of  '  Harry  Richmond,'  published  at  Minden  in  1904,  in
which  year  a  Bohemian  version  of  '  Feverel  '  was  issued  at  Prague.
In  1873  there  was  an  Italian  translation  of  '  Feverel,'  published  in  a
popular  series  at  Milan.  This  is  the  entire  tale  of  Meredith  in
foreign  tongues  and  its  poverty  is  no  occasion  for  wonder,  when
we  remember  that  so  many  of  his  countrymen  find  him  addressing
them  in  a  speech  so  unusual  that  it  seems  as  difficult  to  them  as
another  language  than  their  own.
Passing  from  bibliography  to  criticism,  we  find  that  the  earliest
notice  of  Meredith  outside  his  own  country  occurs  in  a  most
competent  study  of  '  Le  Roman  Anglais  Contemporain  '  by  M.  E.
D.  Forgues  in  the  Revue  des  Deux  Mondes,  June  15,  1867.  Oddly
enough  the  writers  whom  M.  Forgues  brings  into  juxtaposition,  on
account  of  their  having  followed  the  tracks  of  Byron  and  Shelley
in  the  enchanted  land  of  Italy,  are  Trollope,  Mrs.  Browning,  Mr.
