Front matter

BY Dr CHRISTOPHER NYROP Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Copenhagen

TRANSLATED BY

WILLIAM FREDERICK HARVEY M.A., Hertford College, Oxford; Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple; Lecturer in English at the University of Lund (Sweden); sometime Professor of English Literature at the University of Malta

LONDON SANDS & CO. 12 BURLEIGH STREET, STRAND 1901

TO

WALTER BENSON, Esquire

I DEDICATE MY MODEST PART IN THIS BOOK IN TOKEN OF A FRIENDSHIP WHICH HAS GROWN STAUNCHER WITH THE GROWTH OF YEARS

ἦ μεγάλα χάρις Δώρῳ ξὐν όλίγῳ· πάντα δἐ τιμᾶντα τἀ πἀρ ϕίλων Theocritus, Idyl xxviii., 24, 25.

Je célèbre des jeux paisibles, Qu’en vain on semble mépriser, Les vrais biens des âmes sensibles, Les doux mystères du baiser. Dorat.

To gentle sports due praise I render, At which some wits have vainly sneered: The true delight of spirits tender, The kiss’s mysteries endeared. W. F. H.