doctrine or precepi. How far afield Bonio of these litoriea 

 wandered is shoA^'ii in the history of tlia.t called in this col- 

 lection "Temporal Tribulation,"' which is the mythical his- 

 tory of Apollonius, Prince of Tyre. That story, said to be 

 altogether fabulous, originated with a Greek pagan author 

 of the third century. It found its ^\ay into Latin prose of 

 the fifth century, and into the Latin verse of Godfrey and 

 Viterbo in the twelfth century; and thence into the "Geeta 

 Eomanorum." That in turn gaA-o rise to a French version, 

 whence came the English "Apolyne of Tyre," printed by 

 Wynkin do Worde in 1510. Gower, about ISOO, used the 

 same story in his "Confessio ;Vmantio," itself containing a 

 hundred stories, and thence it was- taken to form the doubt- 

 ful Shakespeare play, "Pericles of Tyre." 



Among the world's greatdst stories are the Troy books, 

 relating to the destruction of Troy. Of these, Homer's Iliad 

 has long had place as the greatest and host. But as the 

 Iliad includes only fifty-one days in the tenth year of the 

 v^-ar, auxiliai'y stories abound, foi-ming a cycle %vith particu- 

 lars OS to the whole war, its origin, rds-ulta, and partici-- 

 pants in the strife. The namcB of such boolis alone woidd 

 fill a volume. One of those nearest to us in time and in 

 interest is Caxton's "Eccuyell of the Histories of Troy.' 

 It waa the first book printed in English with movable 

 type-3, led to the establishment of printing in England, is 

 invaluahle as a epecimen ol English prose, was the' motive 

 for Shakespeare's, play of Troiius and Crcs'^ida ; and for 

 these reasons will always be precious in the eyee of lovers 

 of English literature. 



CaiXton drift-ed into authorship and printing. The 

 English guilds by charter obtained the right to control the- 

 working of a commercial treaty between Burgundy aaid 

 England. Caxton bccaane gcn'emor oi their coinpan}', and 

 lived in Flanders. The treaty lapsed in 1105, and Caxton 

 as Fioyal Commissioner failed to get it renewed in tlie life- 

 time of Duke Phillip. But Phillip died in 1167, when 

 Charles the Bold became Duke, and took for his yecond 



