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 " Ottilie," &c. In 2 vols. Demy 8vo., cloth extra ............... r "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." Athencsum. " 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 " Britisk Quarterly Review. " 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." Pall Mall Gazette, "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." Spectator. Careful study, independent thought, and fine writing this is a book notable and noteworthy in every respect." Academy
