The Marvellous Adventures and Rare Conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass
Newly collected, etc., by . With Illustrations by Crowquill. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1860. pp. xxxix., 255.
THIS is a very beautiful edition of a very amusing book. The preface and notes of Mr. Mackenzie will commend it to scholars, while the stories themselves will divert both young and old. A book of this kind, which can keep life in itself for more than three hundred years, must have some real humor and force at bottom. It is as good a specimen of mediæval fun as could anywhere be found. With nothing like the satiric humor of the “Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum,” it appeals to a much larger circle of readers. We are very glad to meet it again in so handsome a dress, and with such really clever illustrations. It is just the book for a Christmas gift.