Marguerite de Navarre
In 1884 he published his second work, the pastiche "The Anatomy of Tobacco", and secured work with the publisher and bookseller George Redway as a cataloguer and magazine editor. This led to further work as a translator from French, translating the "Heptameron" of Marguerite de Navarre, "Le Moyen de Parvenir" ("Fantastic Tales") of Béroalde de Verville, and the "Memoirs" of Casanova. Machen's translations in a spirited English style became standard ones for many years.