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 I The. Cufaire of the Middle Ages 463 Carmine MOORE, C. H., The Development and Character of Gothic Architec- ture. Excellent. The general history of art is treated in the rather arid review given by LUBKE, Outlines of the History of Art, 2 vols. Among the few examples of mediaeval popular literature to be had The in English, the following are especially good and available : Ca SYMONDS, j. A., Wine, Women and Song. (Selections from this in Burana - Latin Students' Songs, published by Mosher in his Bibelot Series.) In this little volume Symonds has translated, with an excellent and scholarly introduction, some of the Carmina Btirana, a strange collec- tion of verses in Latin, or Latin mixed with German, discovered in the monastery of Benediktbeuren, Bavaria, hence the name, " Burana." The collection was made apparently in the thirteenth century, and con- tains the greatest variety of pieces, ranging from love and drinking songs, through satirical attacks on the clergy * and parodies of the church service, to poems showing genuine religious and poetic feeling. Few sources give one so vivid a notion of the variety and range of sentiment in the Middle Ages as the Carmina Burana. (The complete collection in the original tongues, edited by SCHMELLER, has been twice reprinted and is not difficult to obtain.) The Song of Roland has been translated into spirited English verse by O'HAGEN. Aucassin and Nicolette. A most charming tale of the twelfth century. MALLORY, Mart d" 1 Arthur (Temple Classics). A collection of the stories of King Arthur, made in the fifteenth century for English readers. WOLFRAM OF ESCHENBACH, Parzifal, translated by Jessie L. Weston, 2 vols., London, 1894 ; and GODFREY OF STRASBURG, Tristan and Iseult, translated by the same, New York, 1902. The Romance of the Rose. A famous production of the thirteenth century, in the Temple Classics. Huon of Bordeaux, Renaud of Montauban, and The Story of Alexander (Allen, London). These three romances have been excellently pre- pared for English readers by MR. STEELE. Mediaval Tales, edited by HENRY MORLEY in his Universal Library. For the general mediaeval knowledge of the world, the following are especially good : The Travels .of Sir John Mandeville (The Macmillan Company, 1900). This is not only a good edition of the story of travel falsely 1 One of these satires, " The Gospel according to the Marks of Silver," is translated by Emerton, Mediceval Europe, p. 475.