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Excerpt from Renaud of Montauban
Britain, and of Rome - the root-stock and the fair blossoming of romance. The Matter of Britain, made familiar to us by Malory, has furnished the masters of our days with the subject of some of their finest work Tennyson, Swinburne, and Morris have but retold in divers manners the stories of that age. But the Matter of France - the story of Charlemagne and his Peers, the story of Troy, of Alexander, and the like - have not been so fortunate. From the days of their first translation into our tongue they have ceased less and less to interest the readers of this country, till at last even, the buyers of chap-books have refused them their support. We have tried to bring them again to the public of today in the Story of Alexander and in Huon of Bordeaux, with only the success that my poor skill warranted the hopes of, far below the merits of the stories themselves.
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