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THE TECHNIQUE OF TRANSLATING ""

An analogous case, in my own experience, occurred in an attempt to translate the opening chapter of Don Gesualdo, from the Italian of Giovanni Verga. It went quite smoothly,—Verga's style is the essence of simplicity,—until I reached the place where the Trao Palace is on fire, and [266]