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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 15: (search)
robably use, and certainly enough to purchase such books, not on any of our lists, as I may find cheap and tempting, and to establish agencies in Leipzig, Florence, and perhaps elsewhere; beginning the purchases, and putting the agents in communication with Mr. Bates for subsequent directions and resources . . . . I began in London, buying, perhaps, four hundred volumes, which you will easily recognize. . . . . To this city-Brussels—I took a letter from M. Van De Weyer for Mons. Alvin, Conservateur of the Royal Library, who at once placed entirely at my disposition Mons. Charles Ruelens, a scholar full of bibliographical and literary knowledge, who is on the staff of the Library to purchase its books all over Europe. Under his guidance I have bought about seven hundred and fifty volumes . . . . . I have not bought a book here or in London, and shall not, I suppose, buy one anywhere, that I would sell in Boston for twice its cost. The books I have bought of the booksellers here a
The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], Rebellion. (search)
wned heads, foreign ambassadors and literary or political celebrities. A popular edition, however, will appear about the middle of February.--The Emperor, it is stated, has ordered the work to be translated into English, and has undertaken to revise the proofs himself. "There is a good deal of speculation in English literary circles as to the probable translator of the French Emperor's Vive de Cæsar. It is said that several eminent authors have gone from London to Paris to apply for the permission, but that up to the present moment no appointment has been made. The day of publication for the first volume is fixed for the 10th of next month, and, as it is the Emperor's wish that it should appear simultaneously in French, German and English, there is not very much time left for the task. M. Frohner, Conservateur of the Library at the Louvre, has done the German translation. --Volume one will be devoted to the geographic and archæologic description of Cæsar's campaign in Gaul.