Tag: European Magazine

Translations of Vardill Stories

M. André-Marc Aymé has graciously granted the Society permission to publish his translations of three Vardill stories from the European Magazine: “The Spaniard” (August 1817), “Sandy Fraser” (May 1818), and “The Bronze Statue” (May 1820). These are now available on the Society’s website as “L’espagnole”, “Sandy Fraser”, and “La statue de bronze”.

M. Aymé has also drawn the Society’s attention to stories translated into Dutch and German. The Dutch translations are available as “Juana, Of Het Slagtoffer Van Den Minnenijd” (The Spaniard) and “Het Bronzen Beeld” (The Bronze Statue). The German translations will follow.

November 5, 2024

Misattribution of Vardill Story

Author André-Marc Aymé has once again rendered the Society an invaluable service by identifying the European Magazine review of a melodrama titled “Gordon the Gypsey”, staged at London’s English Opera House on 6 August 1822. The review attributes the story of Gordon the Gypsey to James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, and fails to mention Vardill’s version of the tale, which appeared in the European Magazine two years earlier as “Annals of Public Justice 1: The High Court of Justiciary, and a Gypsy Chief”. Vardill’s tale and the accompanying footnotes were subsequently included verbatim in several compilations of Hogg’s works. A brief account of this misattribution, with contemporary reviews of the melodrama, are now available on the Society’s website.

January 3, 2023

List of Frequently Reproduced Tales

The Society is indebted to author André-Marc Aymé for his list of European Magazine tales that were reproduced three or more times in other publications, often with false or incorrect attributions.

With M. Aymé’s permission, the list has been added to the Articles section of the main Vardill website.

September 19, 2022