Abstract

This Week. Ante-Feminism

Eileen Power's translation of "The Goodman of Paris" accomplishes with great suavity and charm a task which must have presented innumerable technical difficulties. The author have some doubt, however, whether her use of archaic English words and constructions serves any useful end. After all, she has not translated the Goodman's French into the English of his contemporaries; and, since this is so, the author sees no reason why it should not have been reduced to the English of today. Miss Power has introduced the treatise with an historical commentary which is almost as instructive and delightful as the Goodman's own words. Particularly effective are her comparative quotations from John Gardener and other writers of the period, showing in several instances amusing parallels and duplications even in matters of small detail.