The Lay of the Horn: _Le Lai du Cor_, edited by F. Wulf, Lunt, 1888. Also Tobler's notes on the same, _Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie_, XII., 266. Of the Churl who Won Paradise, The Divided Blanket, The Gray Palfrey: _Recueil des Fabliaux des xii^e et xiii^e Siècles_, edited by A. de Montaiglon and G. Raynaud, 6 vols., Paris, 1872-90. The Knight of the Little Cask: _Zwei Altfranzösische Dichtungen_, _La Chastelaine de Saint Gille_, _Du Chevalier au Barisel_, edited by O. Schultzgora, Halle, 1889. The Angel and the Hermit: _Nouveau Recueil de Fabliaux et Contes_, edited by M. Méon, 2 vols. Paris, 1823. The Jousting of Our Lady: Chrestomatie de l'ancien français, Karl Bartsch, Leipzig, 1880. The Order of Chivalry: _Fabliaux et Contes_, edited by E. Barbazan, and revised by M. Méon, 4 vols., Paris, 1808. Translator's Note NOTE.--In recent years, in various small books, a number of mediæval French tales, chiefly the lays, have been rendered accessible to English readers, but no attempt has been made to bring together in a single collection examples of the different types of tales. The translator has tried within a small compass to show something of the range and scope of the Old French short story, and at the same time to choose, as far as might be, tales that had not been previously translated. Three of those included in the volume have, however, already been done into English. _The Two Lovers_ and _Eliduc_ appeared in _Seven Lays of Marie de France_, by Edith Rickert, London, 1901; and a metrical translation by William Morris of _The Order of Chivalry_ was printed in the Kelmscott Press edition of Caxton's _Order of Chivalry_. Of the others, I believe, no complete English version has been made. Condensed renderings, however, of _The Order of Chivalry_ and _The Lay of the Bird_ occur in Way's Selections of Fabliaux and Tales, London, 1796 and 1800. Also Leigh Hunt used the plot of _Le Vair Palefroi_ for his poem _The Palfrey_; and in Parnell's _Hermit_ an often told story is again repeated, and the anchorite and his divine comrade move, strange figures, through the ordered, eighteenth century landscape. Many of the Old French tales have been preserved to us in but a single manuscript, with the result we have few critical texts. Such excellent editions as Warnke's _Lais of Marie de France_ are rare, and the translator often encounters difficulties by the way. Some of the readings must perforce be conjectural, and others can but reproduce the ambiguities of the original. At the end of _The Gray Palfrey_ I have omitted altogether a long but incomplete sentence that begins to tell us what happened next between the hero and his uncle. Zorak's text of _Melion_ (_Zeitsckrift für Romanische philologie_, vol. vi.) unfortunately did not come to my notice until these translations were in press, too late to do more than borrow a few readings where Michel is most unsatisfactory.