MANY of us have first found our way into the Realm of Romance, properly so called, through the pages of a little crimson clad volume of the _Bibliothèque Elzevirienne_. {1} Its last pages contain the charming Cante-Fable of _Aucassin et Nicolete_, which Mr. Walter Pater’s praises and Mr. Andrew Lang’s brilliant version have made familiar to all lovers of letters. But the same volume contains four other tales, equally charming in their way, which Mr. William Morris has now made part of English literature by writing them out again for us in English, reproducing, as his alone can do of living men’s, the tone, the colour, the charm of the Middle Ages. His versions have appeared in three successi…
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