11 APRIL 1908, Page 24

"The Riverside Literature Series" (G. G. Harrap and Co.) is

a series of excellently printed volumes giving well-known examples of mediaeval literature, with introductions, notes, Sm., generally adapted, in fact, for the wants of the student. We have now before us Ma/ory's Book of Merlin, and The Book of Sir Balin, Edited by Clarence Griffin Child (1s.); The Song of Boland, Translated into English Prose by Isabel Butler (1s.) ; and Chaucer's Prologue, Knight's Tale, and Nun's Priest's Tale, Edited by Frank Jewett Mather, Ph.D. (1s. 6d.)