Bernard Miall

(Arthur) Bernard Miall (1876-1953) was a British translator and publisher's reader.

Life

Arthur Bernard Miall was born in Croydon in 1876. He published a poem in the '' Yellow Book'' in 1897, and published a couple of volumes of poetry in the 1890s. In 1914 he became publisher's reader for Allen & Unwin.

Miall was living in Berrynarbor, Devon in 1925. He died in March 1953 in Barnstaple.

Works

Poetry

* ''Nocturnes and pastorals: a book of verse'', 1896
* ''Poems'', 1899

Translations

* ''The kingdom of the Barotsi, Upper Zambezia: a voyage of exploration in Africa, returning by the Victoria Falls, Matabeleland, the Transvaal, Natal, and the Cape'' by Alfred Bertrand. Translated from the French ''Au pays des Ba-Rotsi, Haut-Zambèze''. London: T.F. Unwin, 1899.
* ''Sister Beatrice: and Ardiane & Barbe Bleue: two plays'' by Maurice Maeterlinck. Translated into English verse from the French manuscript. London: George Allen, 1901.
* ''The French Revolution: a political history, 1789-1804'' by François Victor Alphonse Aulard. Translated from the French. 4 vols, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910.
* ''The life of Jean Henri Fabre: the entomologist'' by Augustin Fabre. Translated from the French. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
* ''Brazil'' by Pierre Denis. London: T. F. Unwin, 1911.
* ''Java, Sumatra, and the other islands of the Dutch East Indies'' by Antoine Cabaton. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911.
* ''Tolstoy'' by Romain Rolland. London: T. FIsher Unwin, 1911.
* ''The Argentine in the twentieth century'' by Alberto B. Martinez and Maurice Lewandowski. London: T. FIsher Unwin, 1911.
* ''The Empress Eugénie and her circle'' by Ernest Barthez. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912
* ''Sea fisheries, their treasures and toilers'' by Marcel Hérubal. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912
* ''In Forbidden China. The d'Ollone mission, 1906-1909. China-Tibet-Mongolia'' by Henri d'Ollone. London, Leipsic: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912
* ''Social life in the insect world'' by Jean-Henri Fabre. London: T. F. Unwin, 1912.
* ''How France is governed'' by Raymond Poincaré. Translated from the French ''Ce que demande la cité''. London, Leipsic: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913.
* ''The psychology of revolution'' by Gustave Le Bon. Translated from ''La Révolution française et la psychologie des révolutions''. London,
* ''Fabre: poet of science'' by G. V. Legros. London; Leipsic: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913.
* (tr. with Jessie Muir) ''Pelle the conqueror'' by Martin Andersen Nexö. Translated from the Danish. London; Toronto: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1913–16.
* ''Modern Russia'' by Gregor Alexinsky. Translated from the French ''La Russie moderne''. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913.
* ''Latin America: its rise and progress'' by Francisco García Calderón. London: Fisher Unwin, 1913.
* ''Bolivia: its people and its resources, its railways, mines and rubber-forests'' by Paul Walle. London: Fisher Unwin, 1914.
* ''Poems'' by Maurice Maeterlinck. London: Methuen & Co., 1915.
* ''Russia and the great war'' by Gregor Alexinsky. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1915.
* ''A Frenchman's Thoughts on the War'' by Paul Sabatier. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1915.
* ''"Frightfulness" in theory and practice as compared with Franco-British war usages'' by Charles Andler. Translated from the French, with additions from the German "Kriegsbrauch" and the English "Manual of military law". London: Unwin, 1916?
* ''Italy and the War'' by Jacques Bainville. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1916.
* ''With wings outspread: a romance of the war of 1920'' by Marc Gouvrieux. London: William Heinemann, 1916
* ''Belgians under the German Eagle'' by Jean Massart. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1916
* 'The red robe' by Eugène Brieux. In ''Woman on her own: False gods ; The red robe: three plays by Brieux'', London: Herbert Jenkins, 1916
* ''The Road to Liége: the path of crime, August 1914'' by Gustave Somville. With a preface by Henry Carton de Wiart. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1916.
* ''Belgium in war time'' by Adrien de Gerlache. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. (Second edition, 1918 as ''The Unconquerable Soul''.)
* ''Russia and Europe'' by Grigory Aleksinsky. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917
* ''The bloodless war'' by Ezio Maria Gray. Translated from the Italian ''Guerra senza Sangue''. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1917
* ''A Spanish prisoner in a German camp: twenty-one months of captivity'' by Valentin Torras. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917.
* (tr. with Alexander Teixeira de Mattos) ''The Wonders of Instinct. Chapters in the psychology of insects'' by Jean-Henri Fabre. Translated from the French ''Les merveilles de l'instinct chez les insectes.''. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1918
* ''The secret press in Belgium'' by Jean Massart. Translated from the French ''Presse clandestine dans la Belgique occupée.''. London, 1918.
* ''Lessons of the World-War'' by Augustin Hamon. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1918
* ''The Physiology of Industrial Organisation and the Re-employment of the Disabled'' by Jules Amar. London: Library Press, 1918.
* ''The league of nations: the way to the world's peace'' by Matthias Erzberger. London; New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919.
* ''The social diseases: tuberculosis, syphilis, alcoholism, sterility'' by Jules Héricourt. London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1920
* ''The Kaiser vs. Bismarck. Suppressed letters by the Kaiser and new chapters from the autobiography of the Iron Chancellor'' by Otto von Bismarck. With a historical introduction by Charles Downer Hazen. New York; London: Harper & Bros. 1920. (Republished, without the introduction, as ''New Chapters of Bismarck's Autobiography''.)
* ''The life of Jean Henri Fabre: the entomologist, 1823-1910'' by Augustin Fabre. London: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd, 1921.
* ''My years of exile: reminiscences of a socialist'' by Eduard Bernstein. Translated from the German ''Erinnerungen eines Sozialisten. Tl. 1. Aus den Jahren meines Exils''. London: Leonard Parsons, 1921
* ''The World In Revolt: a psychological study of our times'' by Gustave Le Bon. Translated from the French ''Psychologie des temps nouveaux''. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1921.
* ''The Great Secret'' by Maurice Maeterlinck. Translated from the French ''Le Grand Secret''. London: Methuen & Co., 1922.
* ''A musical tour through the land of the past'' by Romain Rolland. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1922
* ''The Mystery of the Hive'' by Eugène Evrard. London: Methuen & Co., 1923.
* ''Master Johann Dietz, surgeon in the army of the Great Elector and barber to the royal court'' by Johann Dietz. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1923
* (tr. with Alexander Teixeira de Mattos) ''The life of the scorpion'' by J. Henri Fabre. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1923
* ''Hypnotism and suggestion'' by Louis Satow. London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1923.
* (tr. with Helen Chilton) ''The fortunes of a household'' by Herman Robbers. Translated from the Dutch "De Gelukkige Familie", pt. 1 of ''De Roman van een Gezin''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924.
* ''Two royalist spies of the French revolution'' by G. Lenotre. London, T. F. Unwin, Ltd, 1924.
* ''Among the Brahmins and pariahs'' by J. A. Sauter. London: T. F. Unwin, Ltd, 1924.
* ''The wonder book of plant life'' by Jean-Henry Fabre. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1924.
* ''Farm friends and foes: talks about the creatures useful to agriculture'' by Jean-Henri Fabre. London: T. F. unwin Ltd., 1925.
* ''Memoirs of a Napoleonic Officer'' by Jean-Baptiste Barrès. Edited, and with an introduction, by his grandson Maurice Barrès. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1925.
* ''Birds and beasts of the Roman Zoo: some observations of a lover of animals'' by Theodor Knottnerus-Meyer.
* ''Ulysse and the sorcerers: or, The golden legend of a Black'' by Marius-Ary Leblond. New York: Frederic A. Stokes Company, 1927.
* ''The Borgias: Alexander VI, Caesar, Lucrezia'' by Giuseppe Portigliotti. Translated from the Italian. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1928.
* ''Richelieu'' by Karl Federn. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1928.
* ''The life of space'' by Maurice Maeterlinck. London: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1928.
* ''Some fascinating women of the renaissance'' by Giuseppe Portigliotti. Translated from the Italian. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1929.
* ''Mysteries of the soul'' by Richard Müller-Freienfels. Translated from the German. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1929.
* ''The heavens and the universe'' by Oswald Thomas. Translated from the German ''Himmel und Welt''. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1930.
* ''Esponiage!'' by Hans Rudolf Berndorff. Translated from the German. London: E. Nash & Co., 1930.
* ''Caesar'' by Mirko Jelusich. Translated from the German. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1930.
* ''A naturalist in Brazil: the record of a year's observation of her flora, her fauna, and her people'' by Konrad Guenther. Translated from the German ''Das Antlitz Brasiliens''. London: George Allan & Unwin, 1931
* ''Laura's garden'' by Count de Comminges. Translated from the French ''Dans son beau jardin''. London: G. Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1932.
* ''She would & she wouldn't'' by Helene Eliat. Translated from the French ''Susanne Christolais''. London: Noel Douglas, 1932.
* ''Hans the gravedigger'' by Pierre Descaves and Etienne Gril. Translated from the French ''Hans le fossoyeur''. London: Noel Douglas, 1932.
* ''The Death-Thorn, and other strange experiences in Peru and Panama'' by Alma M. Karlin. Translated from the German ''Der Todesdorn''. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1934
* ''Before the great silence'' by Maurice Maeterlinck. Translated from the French ''Avant le grand silence''. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1935.
* ''Pigeons & spiders (The water spider)'' by Maurice Maeterlinck. Translated from the French. London: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1935.
* ''Those were good days! : Reminiscences'' by Carl Ludwig Schleich. Translated from the German ''Besonnte Vergangenheit''. London: G. Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1935.
* ''You and the universe: modern physics for everybody'' by Paul Karlson. Translated from the German ''Du und die Natur''. London: G. Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1936.
* ''Conquests and discoveries of Henry the Navigator: being the chronicles of Azurara: Portuguese navigators and colonizers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries'', edited by Virginia de Castro e Almeida with a preface by Marshal Lyautey. Translated from the French ''Chroniques de Gomes Eannes de Azurara''. London: Allen & Unwin, 1936.
* ''The hour-glass'' by Maurice Maeterlinck. Translated from the French ''Le Sablier''. London, 1936.
* ''Interviewing animals'' by Bastian Schmid. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1936.
* (tr. with H. B. Weiner) ''Brahms: his life and work'' by Karl Geiringer. London: G. Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1936.
* ''Anno XIIII: the conquest of an empire'' by Emilio de Bono, with an introduction by Benito Mussolini. Translated from the Italian. London: The Cresset Press Ltd., 1937.
* ''Out of my life and work'' by Auguste Forel. Translated from the German ''Rückblick auf mein Leben''. London: Allen & Unwin, 1937.
* ''Cleopatra: the story of a queen'' by Emil Ludwig. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1937.
* ''The gardens of Taprobane'' by the Count de Mauny. London: Williams and Norgate, 1937
* ''The wheel turns'' by Gian Dauli. London: Chatto and Windus, 1937.
* ''Gladstone'' by Erich Eyck. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1938.
* (tr. with Percy Lloyd) ''Mipam, the Lama of the Five Wisdoms. A Tibetan novel'' by Lama Yongden and L. A. E. M. David-Neel. London: John Lane, 1938.
* ''A history of Europe from the invasions to the XVI century'' by Henri Pirenne. Translated from the French. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1939.
* ''Chin P'ing Mei. The adventurous history of Hsi Men and his six wives''. With an introduction by Arthur Waley. Translated from the German abridged version by Franz Kuhn. London: John Lane 1939.
* ''Mohammed and Charlemagne'' by Henri Pirenne. Translated from the French. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1939.
* (tr. with H. N. R. Hardy) ''Buddhism: its doctrines and its methods''. London: John Lane, 1939.
* (tr. with Gerald C. Wheeler) ''The World and the Atom'' by Christian Møller. Foreword by Professor Niels Bohr. Translated from ''Atomer og andre Smaating''. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1940.
* ''A mother fights Hitler'' by Irmgard Litten. London: George Allen & Unwin.
* ''From Orient to Occident. Memoirs of a doctor'' by Lev Weber-Bauler. London: G. Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1940.
* ''A Concise History of Italy'' by Luigi Salvatorelli. Translated from the Italian ''Sommario della storia d'Italia''. London: G. Allen & Unvin, 1940.
* ''German versus Hun'' by Carl Brinitzer and Berthe Grossbard. With a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Duff Cooper. London: G. Allen & Unwin ltd. 941* ''The awakening of Western legal thought'' by Max Hamburger. Translated from the German. London: Allen & Unwin, 942* ''Musical instruments: their history from the Stone Age to the present day'' by Karl Geiringer. London: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1943.
* ''Old age, its compensations and rewards'' by Adolf Lucas Vischer. With a foreword by Lord Amulree. Translated from the German ''Das Alter als Schicksal und Erfüllung''. London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1947.
* ''Not into clean hands'' by Louis Pauwels. Translated from the French ''Saint Quelqu'un''. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1948.
* ''Mental readjustment'' by Sidonie Reiss. Translated from the German ''Lebenseinstellung und Lebensumstellung''. Prefatory note by Alexandra Adler. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1949.
* ''Day of Glory'' by René Béhaine. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1949.
* ''The Myth of Modernity'' by Charles Baudouin. London: Allen & Unwin, 1950.
* ''General theory of neuroses: twenty-two lectures on the biology, psychoanalysis and psychohygiene of psychosomatic disorders'' by Rudolf Brun. New York: International Universities Press, 1951.
* ''History of the world's art'' by Hermann Leicht. London: Spring Books, 1952.
* ''How to know oriental carpets and rugs'' by Heinrich Jacoby. Edited by R. J. La Fontaine. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1952.
* ''Underwater Hunting'' by Gilbert Doukan. Translated from the French ''La Chasse sous-marine''. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1953.
* ''The Real Stalin'' by Yves Delbars. Translated from the French ''Le Vrai Staline''. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1953.

Other

* ''Pierre Garat, Singer and Exquisite, his life and his world, 1762-1823''. London; Leipsic: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913
* (ed.) ''French fireside poetry'', with metrical translation and an introduction by Matilda Betham-Edwards. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1919.

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1876 births
1953 deaths
British translators
French–English translators
German–English translators