Struggles between the Christians and

the Moors: un

til, in the latter part of the thirteenth century, nothing remained to the Moors but Grenada.

of the twelfth century, and is characterized by Homeric simplicity and unstudied verse. This is the earliest and longest of the Cid ballads; the rest are mostly of the fifteenth century. Two other works which treat of the Cid are traced back to these times : the "Cronica General," written by Alphonso III. of Castile; and the "Chronica del Cid," which forms the foundation of Robert Southey's English production bearing the same title.

BOOKS OF REFERENCE.

"The

Sir Thos. Malory's "Morte d'Arthur." | Rutherford's
Tennyson's "Idylls of the King."

Troubadours: their Loves and their Lyrics."

Turner's "History of the Anglo-Sax-| Bayard Taylor's "Studies in German ✓

Conybeare's "Illustrations of Anglo- Lydia Hands's "Golden Threads from

Longfellow's translation of the "Di-
vina Commedia.'
Dante's "Inferno," illustrated by Gus-
tave Doré, translated by H. F. Cary.
Rossetti's "Shadow of Dante."

Hallam's "Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Eighteenth Centuries." Longfellow's "Poets and Poetry of Bunbury's "Life and Times of Dante." Europe." Van Laun's "History of French Lit- Ticknor's "History of Spanish Literature.'

Bulfinch's "Legends of Charlemagne." Coleridge's Lecture on the Troubadours.

Hueffu's "Troubadours."

H. Quilter's "Giotto."

erature."

Washington Irving's “Mahomet and
his Successors."

Southey's "Chronicle del Cid."
Ormsby's translation of the "Cid."