text:  Bowring's _Russian Anthology_ (not to speak of his other volumes of translated poetry) is a melancholy example of the danger of this attractive but fatal system; while the names of Cary of Hay and of Merivale will remain as a bright encouragement to those who have sufficient strength of mind to prefer the "strait and narrow way" of masterly _translation_ to the "flowery paths of dalliance" so often trodden by the _paraphraser_