Excerpt from Nonsense, Vol. 4: Being Certain Foolish Tales Told by a Father to His Children in 'the Children's Hour'
If in the course of the following pages the Gentle Reader comes on anything open to criticism - anything which might have been better said - then I ask that our reader do not blame the learned Author of Le Roman let him blame the Translator: the fault will 'have arisen from my imperfect knowledge of the classic sanscrit and the difficulty of putting into English idiom sentences which are so eloquent and easily intelligible in the original.
I suppose it is very much The same in the case of any translation; it is probably often impossible to convey the very same meaning which was intended in the original writ ing or to convey it in as apt and eloquent a way.
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