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WINNIE ILLE Pu (121 pp.)-A Latin Rendition of Winnie-the-Pooh-A. A. Milne, translated by Alexander Lenard -Dutton ($3).
Latin scholars, whenever they peek out from behind their soup-stained neckties and that untidy mess of irregular verbs, seem to be nice old dears. Take Alexander Lenard, M.D., a 50-year-old Hungarian linguist who for the last eight years has been teaching and farming in a small town...
Published this week, Winnie Ille Pu proves to be a Latinist's delight, the very book that dozens of Americans, possibly even 50, have been waiting for. For the weary pedagogue, home from The Gallic War, it provides surcease of solecism and a welcome chuckle. It might even make...
Classic, Medieval. On the whole, the translation is excellent (see box). In fact, it is superior to the English original in at least one respect: Milne's occasionally cloying cuteness cannot be rendered in the sober Latin tongue. The tone of the translation is innocently serious, childlike rather than...
The language Translator Lenard uses is generally of Tiberian vintage, seldom earlier than Augustus, seldom later than Pliny, but the verse forms he employs are those of medieval doggerel, which he writes with distinction.