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names, betrays a curious lack of familiarity with the personages of Arthurian literature. Of Agravam, Gariet, and Bohort, he can only say, "A knight of the Round Table, several times mentioned in the La?tcelof" But Gawain's brothers figure prominently in the whole "corpus" of Arthurian literature, whether verse or prose, and surely the writer must have known, alike Bohort's relationship to Lancelot, and the prominent role assigned to him in the Queste ? Erec is " one of the less-known knights of the Round Table," Lancelot, "the best known." Was he better known than Gawain or Perceval? Gosengoot is "not found elsewhere, and probably invented by the author for the sake of the rhyme." The French form is Gosengos, and the knight so named is met with both in the " Tristan " section of Gerbert, and in the Merlin MS., B.N. 337. Of Mereagis he asks, " Is the name a reminiscence of the mythical Greek hero, Meleager ? " Meraugis de Portlesguez is, of course, a familiar figure in Arthurian romance. But the gem of the whole is found in his description of Perceval, who is "according to one version the winner of the Holy Grail, according to another, it was his son Galahad " ! Should a second edition of the text be called for, it is to be hoped that the glossary may be revised by someone having at least a " bowing acquaintance" with the heroes referred to.

Jessie L. Weston.

The Seven Sages of Rome. Edited from the MSS. with introductions, notes and glossary. By Killis Campbell, adjunct Professor of English in the University of Texas. Boston : Ginn & Co., 1907. (Albion Series of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English Poetry : J. W. Bright and G. L. Kittredge, General Editors.) Pp. cxiv-i-217.

The text here edited for the first time is a northern fourteenth century version, in short couplets, found in two MSS., one being Cotton Galba E. ix., which contains, besides, some other