Illustralions of Medieval Romance in Tiles from C'herlsey Abbey. By
R. S. Loomis. (University of Illinois. 75 cents.)—The Iseauttut thirteenth-century tiles, of English workmanship, found in the ruins, of Chertaey Abbey sixty yeara ago, and now mostly preserved in the British Museum, are known to students of early English set. Mr. Loomis in this interesting essay is concerned mainly with their literary inteapretation, and shows that they illustrate the Anglo. Norman Thomas's lost twelftlacentury version of Tristram and Yseult, so far as we know it from the Norse rendering. Thus the
• English designer of the tiles was working on en English romance. • How such a subject was thought suitable for the decoration of a groat Abbey is not explained. Tine tiles are reproduced in simpli- fied outlines for the sake of the story. Their artistic merit, in batter displayed in the photographs in. the British Museum cata- logue of English, pottery.
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