Lays and ballads from English history, etc . ftrel Love. The author in the very outfet draws anadamantine wall between his heroes and the beings of theprefent ; and the reader who, in his impatience or his criti-cifm, wilfully places himfelf on the world-fide of that muni-ment, inflantly lofes fight of Fouque s creations. . The fin-gular and exquifite purity of the work is fuftained to the veryclofe, where the minftrel warrior expires : not amid the firesor from the wounds of battle, but in a cloudy funfet, and ex-haufted and worn out by the exertions of a pilgrimage under-taken to fave the li
Lays and ballads from English history, etc . ftrel Love. The author in the very outfet draws anadamantine wall between his heroes and the beings of theprefent ; and the reader who, in his impatience or his criti-cifm, wilfully places himfelf on the world-fide of that muni-ment, inflantly lofes fight of Fouque s creations. . The fin-gular and exquifite purity of the work is fuftained to the veryclofe, where the minftrel warrior expires : not amid the firesor from the wounds of battle, but in a cloudy funfet, and ex-haufted and worn out by the exertions of a pilgrimage under-taken to fave the life of a fick child. A more beautifullywritten termination to a tale has perhaps never been con-ceived, or a more lovely incident than that of the clouds part-ing at the moment of Arnolds diffolution, and the ftar of hismiftrefs fhining down upon his death-damp brow. The more familiar fuch compofitions become to the Englifhreader the better, and the greater will be his contempt for theordinary mawkifh whinings of the circulating liberation to Romantic Fiction. See next page. 28 MR. LUMLEY, 40, GOWER STREET. FOUQUE. ROMANTICFICTION,Illuflrated, 4s. ROMANTIC FICTION. Twelve mollbeautiful of the fhorter Tales, moft perfeclfpecimens in any language : the Eagle andLion, Princes Sword, Rofe, the VigorsWreath, the Unknown Patient, &c. Cloth,beautiful illujlrations. 4s. In his fimple domeftic pieces Fouque is no lefs happy thanin the high and chivalric. „,»_,. ,, fllfl The Unknown Patient is an unrivalled Tale, as alfo thePrivy Councillor. THIODOLF THE ICELANDER, 4s. THIODOLF, the Icelander, an Adventu-rous Story, affording an interefting pifture ofNorthern and Byzantine manners of the 1 entnCentury. Fine illujlrations by Corbould. 4s. One of the very belt, if not the moll popular, of FouquesorodudSons and certainly equal to the moft fuccefsful of hisRomances Fouque reprefents the fpirit of Ancient Chivalryhi nobler forms than did the clumfy writers of the earlierChal He Ro
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