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A new volume of the Broadway Mediaeval Library, edited by

G. G. Coulton and Eileen Power, Little John of Saintre, by Antoine de la Sale (Routledge, 15s.) suggests some hours of enjoyment, a suggestion which this time is only partly realized. Antoine de la Sale was a French aristocrat of the first half of the fifteenth century. At the age of fourteen he was received as a page at the Court of Louis H of Anjou. Rather late in life he became tutor to the Duke of Calabria, son of "Le bon roi " Rene of Anjou. For his pupil he wrote a story, and years after when the pupil was a mature man he put an _ending to it. From the point of view of a novel, of character drawing, or of entertaining dialogue, the ending only is of interest.