Henry Morley 
Medieval Tales 

This volume of 'Mediæval Tales’ is in four parts, containing severally, (1) Turpin’s 'History of Charles the Great and Orlando, ’ which is an old source of Charlemagne romance; (2) Spanish Ballads, relating chiefly to the romance of Charlemagne, these being taken from the spirited translations of Spanish ballads published in 1823 by John Gibson Lockhart; (3) a selection of stories from the 'Gesta Romanorum;’ and (4) the old translation of the original story of Faustus, on which Marlowe founded his play, and which is the first source of the Faust legend in literature…