I am aware that in foreign countries the name is not an extinguisher to the genius of its owner.

But why?
In other countries its sound is modified.

Pierre Corneille was a great man; but I put it to you whether, had he been an Englishman, he could have been the father of European tragedy as Peter Crow ?" MISS SIBYL.--"Impossible!" MISS SALLY.--"He! he!" MISS MARGARET.--"There is nothing to laugh at, you giddy child!" SIR PETER.--"My son shall not be petrified into Peter." MR.

CHILLINGLY GORDON.--"If a man is such a fool--and I don't say your son will not be a fool, Cousin Peter--as to be influenced by the sound of his own name, and you want the booby to turn the world topsy-turvy, you had better call him Julius Caesar or Hannibal or Attila or Charlemagne." SIR PETER, (who excels mankind in imperturbability of temper).--"On the contrary, if you inflict upon a man the burden of one of those names, the glory of which he cannot reasonably expect to eclipse or even to equal, you crush him beneath the weight.

If a poet were called John Milton or William Shakspeare, he could not dare to publish even a sonnet.