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 CATALOGUE OF MR T. FISHER UN WIN S PUBLICATIONS. EUPHORION : Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance. By VERNON LEE, Author of &quot; Ottilie,&quot; &c. In 2 vols. Demy 8vo., cloth extra ............... r &quot;The book is bold, extensive in scope, and replete with well- defined and unhackneyed ideas, clear impressions, and vigorous and persuasive modes of writing. . . . Large questions have been scrutinized in a comprehensive spirit, and are treated with both breadth and minuteness, according to the scale of the work This will be apparent from a list of articles in the two volume?. .After an introduction comes The Sacrifice, The Italy of the Elizabethan Dramatists, 1 The Outdror Poetry, and Symmetria Prisca. . . . The Portrait Art, The School of Boiardo. Lastly comes the longest essay of all, Mediaeval Love, filling nearly one hundred pages. This is certainly a masterly per formance, going over a wide field, and showing at every stage abundant discrimination.&quot; Athencsum. &quot; It is richly suggestive, stimulating, and helpful. No student can afford to pass it by, and no library of importance should be without it. By the side of Hallam s volumes and Mr. Addin-_ ton Symonds History it will be handy as a supplement and as a kind of appendix ; and as such we very cordially recommend it &quot; Britisk Quarterly Review. &quot; It is a distinct advance on Vernon Lee s previous work. The impressions it records are as vividly individual as ever, the know ledge which informs it is fuller and riper. It deals with a period incomparably more interesting than the teacup times of hood and hoop, through whose mazes her first work led us so plea santly ; and it has more unity and continuity than Belcaro. 1 Its title is most happily chosen, since the studies all converge upon that mystic union of the mediaeval Faust with the Helen of antiquity from which the Renaissance sprang.&quot; Pall Mall Gazette, &quot;Every page of Euphorion give evidence of immense read ing m Renaissance and in mediaeval literature, and the author possesses the sure instinct so needful in a student of old books which leads her to the passages where intellectual booty is to be found. . . . Deserves a most cordial welcome as a fresh and original contribution to the history of civilization and arf written in graceful and often eloquent English.&quot; Spectator. Careful study, independent thought, and fine writing this is a book notable and noteworthy in every respect.&quot; Academy