Hilaire Belloc's Taylorian Lecture on translation, delivered at Oxford University in 1931. Often quoted but long out of print, Hilaire Belloc’s seminal lecture has been newly typeset and is now available as a slim, 4x6 paperback. Belloc argues that translators should “transmute boldly”. They should not ask themselves “How shall I make this foreigner talk English?”, but rather “What would an Englishman have said to express the same?” “That is translation,” he writes. “That is the very essence of the art: the resurrection of an alien thing in a native body; not the dressing of it up in native clothes but the giving to it of native flesh and blood.”