POEME-BALLADE

Basil M. Pickering, 196, Piccadilly. W. Prix 7s. 6d.

"The mètre is flowing, and there is an air of antiquity in the phraseology wh^ch harmonises with the subject."— TAe Literary Gazette, 26thJune, loOo.

" The translation was evidently a labour of love, and like every thing done con amore, is successful.

" M. de Châtelain is a perfect master of both languages, and has in his préviens works proved himself to be a true and dcep-feeling poet. The 'Monks of Kilcrea' will add to his réputation, and bccome a favourite, with ail who understand tho language into which it has been so admirably irainshted:'— The Illustrated News oftlie World, 3rd Juhj, 1858.

"The greator his practice, the more skilful, and rcady and tnithful his harid— is a rcmark we are justificd in niaking, after examiniiig tho Chevalier's former translations and comnaring therewith the agreeable volume before us. The original is probably known to most of our readers, and the Frcnch rendering of it is very remarkable for a fidelity of form and snirit, which the Chevalier must at timcs havo found it more than usually diffîoult to préserve. It is a book, too, well adapted to the peculiarities— that is, flie peculiar beautics of the Pickering éditions." — The Athenœum, \Hlh Septemher, 18.08.

Pvblié en 1859.

CLÉOMADÈS.

Conte traduit en vers Français modernes du vieux langage d'Adénèa le Roy, contemporain de Chaucer.

Basil M. Pickering, 196, Piccadilly. W. Prix 3s. 6d.

" It will be remembered that Chaucer's ' Squyeres Taie' was left by its author unfinished, and that it is literally a story without an end ; this little volume supplies materials to make up the deficiency, as it is with little question the source from whence Chaucer obtained the plot of his story. The 'Athenaeum,' in speaking of this volume, says, ' Critics, commentators, annotators, editors, and antiquaries hâve long been sorely puzzled as to the source whence Chaucer drew his 'Squyeres Taie.' The story is not to be foimd — so lias hitherto circulated the report — in any sirailar or other form in the literature of the Middle Ages.' The reviewer, after tracing the similarity between the two authors, in an article too long to quote in this place, concludes by taking leave of both minstrels, and ' recommending our (his) readers to make such acquaintance with the former (Adénès le Roy), as they are enabled to do by the good offices of the Chevalier de Châtelain."— jProm the Catalogue of English Poetry puhlished hy B. M. Pickering, 1862.

" When we announce that the rendering is that of M. de Châtelain, we raay spare ourselves the labour of saying that the language is charmingly appropriate, and the measm-e and rhyme perfect." — The Illiistrated News ofthe World, 30th April, 1859.

'''Cléomadès,' in its modernized dress, is as simple and as graceful as a poem of Lamartine." — The Daily Telegraph, 23rd May, 1859.

Pour paraître le 1er Mai, 1864.