Snorro Sturleson's Heimskringla-continued. though the quaint old English sounds a little strange at first, it soon impresses one as thoroughly suitable to the nature of the tales. The more mythical part of the Stories is full of curious traditions which throw a vivid-if occasionally a lurid-light on the ways and beliefs of the old Norsemen. The Sagas are amongst the most refreshing things we have in the way of poetical history, and present-day readers may consider themselves lucky in being able to read old Snorro Sturleson's 'Round World' as done into English by the joint skill of an English poet and an Icelandic scholar."-Glasgow Herald, March 2nd, 1893. "Another of those extremely curious books which Mr. William Morris and the able translator, Eirikr Magnússon, are rescuing from the oblivion of the old Icelandic, is 'The Story of the Kings of Norway' (Quaritch). Nothing could exceed the admirable picturesqueness of these records in brief, as they are transcribed from the pages of Snorro Sturleson. They are condensed romances, with striking episodes expressed in lines, and graphic incidents in a happy word or two; and, quaint as they are in themselves, their historic importance to us as a people whose earliest history is only an offset of these records, cannot be over-rated. Mr. Magnússon's translation is very felicitous; his rough but effective English preserves the unpolished dignity of the originals better than anything else could have done. We are afraid that in presenting the work to a public which is not exclusively one of scholars he ought to have added a more explicit glossary, and, for the same reason, a fore-word would have been welcome, saying how much the unlearned in runes might accept as fact of these delightful traditions, and how much should be put down to fancy only. But with all such deficiencies, the narratives are still most curious reading, more accurate in the main, far more important historically, and not less wonderful than the 'Songs of Roland' and the classic 'Morte d'Arthur." "-The Daily Telegraph, March 8th, 1893. "As to the main incidents of the chronicle, they are almost for the first time worthily presented. Such things as the fight of Hacon and Eric with the Jomsburgers; as the exploit of Queen Sigrid the Haughty, when, tired of hospitably welcoming her lovers. she put two suitors and their suites to fire and sword, 'to weary small kings like these of coming to woo her;' as the final death battle of King Olaf-such things want something more than a translator' by big blows of dictionary,' as the French say; and in Mr. Morris, with his coadjutor, they have got it. We shall look for the coming volumes with great interest. This, which is very handy and comely, contains in a pocket an excellent map of Norway with the names and divisions of the Saga time."-Manchester Guardian, March 21st, 1893. The Shelley Concordance: A Lexical Concordance to the Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. A Complete Dictionary of every Word used by the Poet in his Metrical Writings; being an Attempt to Classify each according to its Force and Meaning. Arranged and Edited by F. S. ELLIS. The book has been printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, with type specially cast for it. One stout volume, imperial 8vo. 1644 cols. roxburghe, 25s the same, 2 vols. 4to. LARGE PAPER, hf. bd. uncut, £2. 2s "This latest concordance of Mr. Ellis is a 1892 1892 to Burns' is 'contrived a double debt to pay,' and answers all purposes of a glossary. Mr. Ellis, on the other hand, aims at supplying a full explanation of the senses in which every word is used. To take, thus, the word love, which Shelley naturally employs many hundreds of times, we find its use as a noun ranged under fourteen different headings, as a transitive verb under six, and as an intransitive verb under three. Words so common in use as of and by are treated with similar thoroughness, and even mere letters as a and o, occupy two or more headings. How much an arrangement of this class augments labour as well as utility is at once apparent. Mr. Ellis's labours do not rest here. With a view to further aiding students, he marks by different signs the words in Shelley which are not in Shakspeare, are used by him only once, or are not used in the same sense. Six years' labour, not wholly unassisted, have been employed by Mr. Ellis in the production of this most exemplary work of its class that has yet seen the light. To the making of concordances there go, says Mr. Ellis. The Shelley Concordance-continued. patience, industry, and time. To these things must be added zeal, and, in the case of a lexical concordance, knowledge. An immense love and reverence for an author is requisite to convert into an enjoyment and recreation the task of extracting, coordinating, and pasting the hundred and fifty or two hundred thousand slips which the execution of the work necessitates. There are in the 'Concordance 818 pages, in double columns, with an approximate average of one hundred lines per column. Yet the six years over which the compilation has spread seem to Mr. Ellis but a dream, and to those who would Old Welsh Texts: forget the minor vexations with which life is beset he recommends the making of a concordance. Our own obligations to Mr. Ellis are gladly acknowledged. What we hope to see done by a society is accomplished by individual energy, and executed in a fashion that if it did not by its author's modesty disarm criticism, would by its own merits defy censure. The one hesitation we have concerning Mr. Ellis's works is whether by the elevation of the ideal of a concordance it will not discourage the efforts of subsequent compilers."-Notes and Queries, June 25th, 1892. Edited by JOHN RHYS and J. GWENOGVRYN EVANS: MABINOGION. The Text of the Mabinogion and other Welsh Tales, from the Red Book of Hergest. Royal 8vo., pp. xxiv and 356, with five facsimile pages. STUDENTS' EDITION, on antique laid paper, cloth, 21s 1887 LIBRARY EDITION, on toned paper, hf. morocco gilt, £1. 11s 6d Limited to 500 copies. BLACK BOOK OF CARMARTHEN; a facsimile by the Autotype process, with a palæographical note by J. G. Evans. Demy 8vo. cloth, £2. 1888 Limited to 250 copies, nearly all of which are sold. BRUTIEU (Y). The Text of the Bruts from the Red Book of Hergest. Containing the texts of Dares Phrygius, Geoffrey's Brut, Brut y Tywyssogion, Brut y Saesson, From Gwrtheyrn Gwrtheneu to King John, and Cantreds and Commotes of Wales. Royal 8vo., pp. lxxxvi and 452, with five facsimiles, preface and introduction by Prof. Rhys, dealing specially with Geoffrey's Brut, palæographical notes and index. STUDENTS' EDITION, on thick deckle-edge paper, cloth, 21s LIBRARY EDITION, on thick toned paper, half morocco gilt, £1. 11s 6d 1890 LIBER LANDAVENSIS. The Text of the Book of Llan Dâv, reproduced from the Gwysaney MS. Royal 8vo., pp. li and 428, with front. and facsimiles. STUDENTS' EDITION, cloth, £1. 10s 1893 LIBRARY EDITION, hf. morocco gilt, £2. 2s above 4 works, THE PATRON'S EDITION printed on handmade paper, in royal 8vo. hf. bd. RED MOROCco, gilt tops, uncut, entirely out of print, only one copy, £12. 12s Limited to 500 copies, and nearly out of print. These volumes are issued only to Subscribers. Welsh and English: HENGWRT MSS. 1-3 Y SEINT GREAL, being the Adventures of KING ARTHUR'S KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE in the Quest of the HOLY GREAL, and on other occasions, in Welsh and English, edited by the Rev. Robert Williams, 3 parts in 1 volume, 8vo. not sold separately The Welsh MS. from which this is printed dates from the early part of the fifteenth century (it may have been copied from one of greater age), and contains in its first part a translation from the Queste du Saint Greal. The second part is taken from the second part of the Histoire du 1874-76 Graal. This Welsh translation has an independent value as showing what Welsh names correspond to the French ones, and as containing traces of the concurrent British legends of King Arthur and his Knights. Welsh and English-continued. Hengwrt MSS. No. 4, THE GESTS of CHARLEMAGNE; Campeu Charlymaen, in Welsh, pp. 1-188, in English, 435-482, 8vo. sd. 15s 1880 Hengwrt MSS. No. 5, PURDAN PADRIC, Bushed meir wyry, etc. in Welsh, pp. 189-340, in English Down of Hamtoun, etc. pp. 483-570, 8vo. sd. 15s 1880 Hengwrt MSS. No. 6, completing the work, Ipotis Ispratawl, Lucidar, Ymborth yr Eneit, etc. 15s THE COMPLETE WORK, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, £2. 10s "More than a quarter of a century ago the late Canon Williams, of Rhydycroesau, commenced a task single-handed, for which nowadays the energies of a popular society and the contributions of the wealthy are put in requisition. It was no less than the herculean project of publishing some of the most important Welsh manuscripts in the famous Hengwrt Library, now safely housed at Peniarth. The first work proceeded with was the celebrated 'Seint Greal,' which, with its translation, formed the three first numbers of the Selections.' Next followed two specimens of the Carlovingian cycle of romance, entitled 'Campeu Charlymaen' and 'Bown o Hamtwn.' After these followed a number of small tracts, mainly of a religious character, of considerable vogue in the Middle Ages. They are entitled 'Purdan Padric' (St. Patrick's Purgatory), Buchedd Meir Wyry' (The Life of the Virgin Mary), 'Seith Pechawt Marwol' (The Seven Deadly Sins), and others of a like character. Though Canon Williams's enterprise had been carried on in face of the almost complete indifference of his countrymen, there is nothing to suggest that his zeal had diminished or that he considered his labours of transcription to have terminated. However, death came, and his work was left uncompleted. Twenty years had to pass away before a scholar was found to bring the volume to a conclusion from the point at which Canon Williams had arrived when the pen fell from his hand, but the work has at last been done. The few remaining pages of the tract called Ymborth yr Enait' have been supplied by Mr. Egerton Phillimore. Mr. Hartwell Jones has collated the transcript with the original at Hengwrt, and has supplied the English translation to all the pieces from the point to which it had attained, namely, to about one half of 'Purdan Padric.' In a few prefatory remarks Professor Hartwell Jones observes that he was frequently enabled to surmount the many difficulties which he encountered in making his translation by reference to the Latin originals from which the Welsh versions had been taken. The few notes he has supplied afford proof of the thoroughness with which his portion of the work has been done, and the care with which other Welsh manuscripts (principally that known as Llyfr yr Ancr') had been examined in order to supply the omissions or inaccuracies of the Hengwrt text. Many of the pieces contained in this and the preceding part of the Selections' (and the translations of all of which have been done by Professor Hartwell Jones) are in the nature 1892 1874-92 of homilies that were read in churches at certain periods, or are didactic tracts upon the doctrines of Christianity. Their value is chiefly philological, though they also afford highly interesting glimpses of the peculiar mixture of deep piety with unbounded credulity that constituted the religious beliefs of the Middle Ages. Theological questions, however, do not make up all the contents of this interesting number. There is a curious variant of the wellknown fable of Llywelyn's Hound that is contained in the story called 'Seith Doethion Ruvein' (The Seven Wise Men of Rome). We give it in English, for the benefit of our monoglot readers :-'There was once at Rome a knight, and his palace was by the side of the city, and one day there was a tournament and a contest between the knights. Now, the Empress and family went to the top of the city wall to witness the contest, leaving no one in the palace save the knight's only son, sleeping in a cradle, and his greyhound lying near him, and by reason of the neighing of the horses, and the excitement of the men, and the din of the lances clashing against the gold-spangled shields, a serpent was aroused from the wall of the castle, and it made for the hall of the knight, and espied the child in the cradle, and made a rush at him, and before it reached him the fleet and active greyhound leaped upon him, and by their fighting and struggling, both of them, the cradle was overturned with its face downwards, and the child inside; and the fleet, active, noble hound slew the serpent, and left it in small pieces near the cradle. And when the lady came in and saw the dog and the cradle bloody, she came towards the knight, calling and shrieking the while, to complain of the dog that had killed his only son. And the knight in his wrath slew the hound, and, to comfort his wife, he came to see his child; and when he came, the child was safe and sound under the cradle, and the serpent in little pieces hard by. And then the knight was troubled that he had slain so good a hound at the word and instance of his wife' (p. 649). The incidents that called forth the narration of this story and the moral that is drawn therefrom are very curious. The tract has been published before in Y Brython from a modern manuscript (presumably) in the British Museum. The present work is a fitting crown to a great and worthy undertaking, and is a most favourable specimen of judicious editing allied to ripe scholarship."-Western Mail, September 23rd, 1892. LONDON, 15 Piccadilly, July, 1893. DESIDERATA; or, BY BERNARD QUARITCH. Gentlemen having any of the books in this List for sale at a fair value, will oblige by stating to Mr. Quaritch their titles, dates, condition and price. 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