Lays and ballads from English history, etc . Specimen of Illustrations to Wild Love 26 MR. LUMLEY, 40, GOWER STREET. from which Sintram was a kind of offshootNow firft entirely Tranflated, including all thePoetry. Cloth, beautiful Frontifpiece by Ten-nieL 4s. We have frequently borne teftimony to the peculiar attracttions, the wild genius, and fanciful imagination of Fouquejcreations; but of his works this appears the moft interestingand the beft. FOUQUE. MINSTREL LOVE, Illuftrated,4s. MINSTREL LOVE : a beautiful Romanceof Chivalry, elegantly Tranflated, and the Poetryabundantly interfperfed,
Lays and ballads from English history, etc . Specimen of Illustrations to Wild Love 26 MR. LUMLEY, 40, GOWER STREET. from which Sintram was a kind of offshootNow firft entirely Tranflated, including all thePoetry. Cloth, beautiful Frontifpiece by Ten-nieL 4s. We have frequently borne teftimony to the peculiar attracttions, the wild genius, and fanciful imagination of Fouquejcreations; but of his works this appears the moft interestingand the beft. FOUQUE. MINSTREL LOVE, Illuftrated,4s. MINSTREL LOVE : a beautiful Romanceof Chivalry, elegantly Tranflated, and the Poetryabundantly interfperfed, gracefully clever Illuftrations by Corbould. 4s. One of the moft beautiful of Fouques Works, high-tonedfentiment, glowing defcriptions, impaffioned language. Perhaps there is no modern romance which requires for its. MR. LUMLEY, 40, GOIVER STREET. 27 enjoyment fo complete an abnegation of felf, of felfifhnefs,and of that fyftem of felfifhnefs which is called civilifed life, as Minftrel 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 mor
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