Taylor, Edgar [Hrsg.]; Austin, Sarah [Hrsg.]: Lays of the minnesingers or German troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: Illustr. by specimens of the contemporary lyric poetry of Provence and other parts of Europe ; With histor. and crit. notes, and engravings from the ms. of the minnesingers in the king's library at Paris, and from other sources (London, 1825)

ADVERTISEMENT.

Though this little work is sent into the world
anonymously, it may be proper to state that it
is the joint production of two authors : one of
whom (the writer of this notice) is answerable
for the arrangement, and for what may be called
the critical department of the book; while he re-
signs the poetic department, with few and trifling
exceptions, to his associate, to whom the reader
will correctly attribute whatever is most worthy
of his perusal.

The selections have been almost entirely con-
fined to that branch of lyric poetry by which the
period in question is most peculiarly character-
ized. It must, however, be admitted, that a much
more curious and valuable miscellany might be
compiled from a careful investigation of the great
mass of those pieces, belonging to the same aera,
which are of an historical character.