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 February, 1880.

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THE EARLY TEUTONIC, ITALIAN, AND FRENCH MASTERS.

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THE READER'S HANDBOOK OF ALLUSIONS, REFERENCES, PLOTS, AND STORIES. By the Rev. . ConnAm Brewer, LL.D,

The object of thit Handhook i: to supply readers and speakers with a lctd bit tery brief accown? of such names as are weed in al/avions and references, whether by poets or prose weitera—fo furnish those who consnit it seth the plot of popuiar dransas, the story of opie poemit, and the outline of wellknown tales, Thies, it gites ft a few limes the story of Homer's " Niad" and" Odsssey," af Virgil's


 * Fineid,"' Lacan's " Pharsatia," and the' Thebaid" of Statins; af Dante's
 * Dtelne Couredy," Arieste's " Orlande Furtoso," and Trese's " Ferustlem Dr. tivered 3" af Aftdton's " Paradise Lost™ and " Paradive Regained >" of Thoimson's Seasons; " of Osstan's tales, the " Nibelwngen Lied" af the German Mine mesivvers, the "" Romance of the Rose," the " Lusiad™ of Camoens, the " Lever of Theacenes and Chariclein" by Heliedorns; with the several stery poems cf Chancer, Greer, Pliers Plowman, Haws, Spenser, Drayton, PAtneas Pletcher, Priov, Gotdinith, Campbell, Sonthey, Byron, Scott, Moore, Tennyrom, Longe feliow, and soon. Far from dieting its scope to poets, the Handbook telis, with similar brendty, the stertes of our national fatry tales and romances, sack novels as those by Charter Dickens, Vanity Fatr™ ty Thackeray, the " Rasselat" of Founson, Gulliver's Travels" by Swift, the Sentimental Tourney" by Sterne, ™ Dow Oulxote" and" Gil Blas," " Telesmachus' by Féndlon, and ** Undine" dy Dela Mette Fougué. Great paing have been taken wth the Arthurian stories, awhether from Sty 7. Afatlory's collection or from the "* Mabinogion," becanse Trnnyson Aas drought them to the front in his" foylis of the King; amd the number af dramatic plots shetched out is many Anndrets Another striking amd tateresting feature of the book is the revelation af the source from which dreamer tists aud remancers huwe derived their stories, and the strange repetitions af Aistovic incudents, fn the Appendix are added two viste: the Aivit contains the dite and author ef the several dramatic works set down 3 ant the second, the dite of the divers poems or nevels given under their author's name.