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 The reader will find it worth his while to compare the following passages from the Welsh story, which I give as a specimen, with the corresponding passages in "Enid."

(See "Enid," p. 4;

"At last it chanced that on a summer morn," &c.)

"And one morning in the summer time, they were upon their couch, and Geraint lay upon the edge of it. And Enid was without sleep in the apartment, which had windows of glass. And the sun shone upon the couch. And the clothes had slipped from off his arms and his breast, and he was asleep. Then she gazed upon the marvellous beauty of his appearance, and she said, 'Alas, and am I the cause that these arms and this breast have lost their glory, and the warlike fame which they once so richly enjoyed!' And as she said this, the tears dropped from her eyes, and they fell upon his breast. And the tears she shed, and the words she had spoken, awoke him; and another thing contributed to awaken him, and that was the idea that it was not in thinking of him that she spoke thus, but that it was because she loved