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Robert Pierce Gillies was a Scottish writer and translator. In 1824 he introduced Hoffmann's work to the English readership with the translation of one of Hoffmann's novels, The Devil's Elixirs. There followed in 1826 Gillies's translations Mademoiselle Scuderi and The Entail published in his collection German Romance in 1826 which was received with enthusiasm, particularly for their brilliant English translation.

Contemporary praise:

"One may read Mr. Gillies's three volumes... without ever suspecting from the style that the whole was not originally conceived and executed in English" (Blackwood's Magazine December 1826, p. 857) or, as a contributor wrote in Blackwoods Magazine in 1827:
"... he has contrived to prune off all the undelicacy of his German original, without doing the smallest injury to the author's genius." (Blackwood's Magazine 1827; p. 59)


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