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.Aragon by the Pope. " Monsenyer Philip.... -said : ' What is this, Brother. They say you have yourself called King of Aragon ? ' And he -eaid it was the truth, and that he was King oJ Aragon. And he answered him. : ' Forsooth, my fair Brother, you are King of your hat ' ' by which name, " the King of the Hat," Muntaner is delighted to call this prince whenever he meets Trim. Of the French, in general, he has naturally, from his point of view no opinion ; he says, in particular, " the French are people who, in matters of the sea, of which they understand nothing, believe what any man tells them." The matters of the sea principally the doings of Roger >de Luria play a great part in these chapters.

Among the anecdotes related is a curious one .of a woman in Peralada called Na Mercadera "because she kept a shop who, armed like a man, went out to pick cabbages and encountered a French knight on horseback caught in a trench .and took him prisoner. Another interesting passage is the description and appreciation of the Catalan crossbowmen.

The stories of battles and feasts, conferences and voyages are lively and picturesque, and have been done into a good fluent English. We noted several proverbs, e.g., that "proverb of Catalonia that the thorn which has to prick is pointed from -,the beginning " ; and the following may be found .amusing : " The passage is so short six miles as I have told you already. However, as some will hear this who do not know what six miles are I want them to know that the distance is so short irom San Rayner in Messina to the fort of Catena, -that, from one side to the other, you might see a man on horseback and would know whether he -was going east or west."

At p. 293 it is said that " it is five miles from .Jerba to Messina " ; and on p. 276 the hour of none is said in a footnote to be 9 P.M., 'instead of 3 P.M.

A satisfactory Introduction gives first an outline of the history upon which we are engaged the relations between Spain and the Saracens, Spain and the Sicilian kingdom, and Spain and France ; and then a careful biography of Ramon Muntaner himself.

The maps at the end might, we think, have been better.

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