MEDIAEVAL LORE. 

 (March 4, 1893.) 



IN a little book lately published by Mr. Robert 

 Steele (Elliot Stock) under the title that we have 

 chosen for the heading of this article he introduces 

 us to the work of a man famous in his day, but, 

 now practically forgotten, for which the thanks of 

 all who are interested in the literature of the 

 Middle Ages are due to him ; and be it added, 

 with all deference to Mr. William Morris, who is 

 responsible for the preface that this body does 

 not, as he fondly imagines, consist only of ''those 

 who are pledged to the forward movement in 

 modern life." The book in question consists of 

 extracts from Berthelet's edition of the English 

 translation of the great work in nineteen books of 

 Bartholomew Anglicus, "De Proprietatibus rerum," 

 with short dissertations by the editor. This 

 Bartholomew was a Franciscan friar, and doubt- 

 less an Englishman. The date of his book is not 

 known with any certainty, but Mr. Steele in his. 

 introductory chapter gives excellent reasons .for 

 concluding that it was written about the year 1260. 

 Originally written in Latin, it was translated into 

 most of the European languages, English among <, 



