Dramatic pieces from the German
Contributors: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832; Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784; Ayrenhoff, Cornelius von, 1733-1819; Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788
Publisher: Printed for William Creech and T. Cadell, London
Published: 1792
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: German drama; Translations into English
Notes: Signatures: [a⁴], A-Dd⁴, Ee² (Ee₂ blank, cancelled). Publisher's advertisements signed: [A]⁸.

Translations, probably by Henry Mackenzie, of Goethe's "Die Geschwister"; Diderot's "Entretien d'un père avec ses enfans" (tr. into German by Gessner); and of Ayrenhoff's "Der Postzug." (cf. Annual biography and obituary, 1832, p. 12; Allibone, Dict. of authors, and Dict. of nat. biog. under Mackenzie; Neue Bibliothek d. schönen Wissenschaften, 1793, v. 51, p. 183-4; W. Montag, K.v. Ayrenhoff, 1908).

Goedeke in his "Grundrisz d. deut. Dichtung," 3. Aufl. v. 4, pt. 3, p. 229, ascribes the translation from Goethe to William Taylor; on what authority does not appear. None of the translations are mentioned in Robberd's Memoir of Taylor, in G. Herzfeld's "William Taylor von Norwich, " 1897, nor in Mackenzie's collected works.
Table of contents: title: I. The sister, a drama by Goethe.; title: II. The conversation of a father with his children, by Gesner [sic]; title: III. The set of horses, a dramatic piece by Emdorff [i.e. Ayrenhoff].