'One of the best "people's" books (Volksbücher) ever written'. Thomas Dekker founded his 'Pleasant Comedie of Old Fortunatus' (1600) upon this work.

=FOSCOLO, N. UGO.= _b._ 1777, _d._ 1827. =Italian poet.=

The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics — Part 39

ESSAY ON THE LOVE, THE POETRY AND CHARACTER OF PETRARCH, comprising numerous translations by the Author's Friends, Lady Barberina Dacre, and others. 1823.

The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics — Part 39

NARRATIVE OF THE EVENTS ILLUSTRATING THE VICISSITUDES AND THE CESSION OF PARGA, AND THE IONIAN ISLANDS. _Tr._ 1820.

The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics — Part 39

=FOUQUÉ, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH KARL, BARON DE LA MOTTE.= _b._ 1777, _d._ 1843. =German poet and romance-writer.=

AN ESSAY OF THREE TALES, i.e. The Cypress Crown, etc. _Tr._ 1820.

SINTRAM AND HIS COMPANIONS. _Tr._ [by J. C. Hare]. 1820.

=FOUR SONS OF AYMON=. 1490-91. By Caxton. Known and tr. as Renaud de Montauban, see p. 36. _Ed._ [Miss] O. Richardson. 2 pts. E.E.T.S. 1884.

=FOX AND THE WOLF.= _Ed._ T. Wright and Halliwell in their Reliqueae Antiquae, v. 1, 1841.

This is the first English poem connected with the animal saga.

Probably written during reign of Edward I and based on the Roman du Reynard.

=FRANCE, ANATOLE.= _b._ 1844. =French poet, novelist and critic.=

1. THE RED LILY. _Tr._ W. Stephens, 1908.

2. MOTHER OF PEARL. _Tr._ T. Chapman, 1908.

3. GARDEN OF EPICURUS. _Tr._ A. Allinson, 1908.

4. CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD. _Tr._ L. Hearn, 1891.

=FRANZOS, KARL EMIL.= _b._ 1848. =Austrian Jewish novelist.=

THE JEWS OF BARNOW. _Tr._ M. W. Macdowall, 1882.

THE CHIEF JUSTICE. _Tr._ M. Corbet, 1890.

JUDITH TRACHTENBERG. _Tr._ Mrs. L. P. and C. T. Lewis, 1891.

=FRENCH ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS. Poetical, Fairy Tales, Folk-Tales, and Traditional Literature.=

AULNOY, MME. D' (= _C'ess d'Anois_). _Ed._ FAIRY TALES. _Tr._ by Miss Lee and A. Macdonald. 1891.

[The first English _Tr._ of all the twenty-four stories.]

AULNOY, MME. D'. FAIRY TALES. _Tr._ by J. R. Planché, 1855.

COSTELLO, LOUISA. SPECIMENS OF THE EARLY POETRY OF FRANCE, 1835.

MORRIS, WM. _Tr._ OLD FRENCH ROMANCES, done into English. 1896. ('The Tale of King Constans the Emperor', 'The Friendship of Amis and Amile', 'The Story of King Florus and the Fair Jehane', 'The History of Over Seas'.)

These four romances belong to the 13th century.

O'HAGAN, J. _Tr._ THE SONG OF ROLAND. 1882.