with the white hands, and thus is one of the numerous secondary Romances of the Round Table. So also is the long and interesting _Roman du Chevalier as Deux Espees_[103]; this extends to more than 12,000 lines, and, though the adventures recorded are of the ordinary Round Table pattern, there is noticeable in it a better faculty of maintaining the interest and a completer mastery over episodes than usual. A still longer poem (also belonging to what may be called the outer Arthurian cycle) is _Durmart le Gallois_[104], which contains almost 16,000 verses. The loves of the hero and Fenise, the Queen of Ireland, are somewhat lengthily handled; but there are passages of merit, especially one most striking episode in which the hero, riding through a forest by night, comes to a tree covered from top to bottom with burning torches, while a shining naked child is enthroned on the summit. These touches of mystical religion are rarer in the later Romans d'Aventures than in the Arthurian Romances proper, but with them one of the most remarkable elements of romance disappears. Philippe de Remy, Seigneur de Beaumanoir (who has other claims to literary distinction) is held to be author of two Romans d'Aventures[105], _La Manekine_ (the story of the King of Hungary's daughter, who cut off her hand to save herself from her father's incestuous passion) and _Blonde d'Oxford_, where a young French squire carries off an English heiress. _Joufrois de Poitiers_[106], which has not come down to us complete, is chiefly remarkable for the liveliness of style with which adventures, in themselves tolerably hackneyed, are handled. Other Romans d'Aventures, which are either as yet in manuscript or of less importance, are _Ille et Galeron_ and _Eracle_, both by Gautier d'Arras, _Cristal et Larie_, _La Dame a la Licorne_, _Guy de Warwike_, _Gerard de Nevers_ or _La Violette_[107], _Guillaume de Dole_, _Eledus et Serena_, _Florimont_. [Sidenote: General Character.]