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The Courteous Knight, and other Tales. (Nelson and Sons. 35.

(Id.) —Mr. G. Edwardson, who edits this very handsome and interesting gift-book, admits most frankly his indebtedness to Spenser and Sir Thomas Malory. Thus certain books of the "Faery Queen" have supplied materials for his longest story, "The Courteous Knight," while others have enabled him to write "The Treasure House of Mammon " and "The Wooing of Canace." On Malory he has drawn for his other and more distinctly Arthurian stories. Mr. Edwardson has accomplished the task of rendering these legends into English easily understood by children, and he has been

greatly aided by the dainty and quaint, yet not too old fashioned, illustrations of Mr. Robert Hope.