His warmest admirers must admit that he is not a satisfactory representative of Cervantes.

His translation of the First Part was very hastily made and was never revised by him.

It has all the freshness and vigour, but also a full measure of the faults, of a hasty production.

It is often very literal--barbarously literal frequently--but just as often very loose.

He had evidently a good colloquial knowledge of Spanish, but apparently not much more.