Books: Holy Terror

THE SCANDALOUS ADVENTURES OF REYNARD THE Fox—Harry J.. Owens—Knopf ($3).

I have not added ne mynneshed but have followed as nyghe as I can my copye wich was in dutche; and by me Willm Caxton translated in to this rude and symple englysshe in thabbey of Westminster, and finished the vi daye of Juyn in the yere of our Lord 1481, and the 21 yere of the regne of Kynge Edward the 1111th.

Thus Britain's first printer concluded his Hysteria of Reynart the Foxe, translated from a Flemish-Dutch epic poem (already 200 years old) recounting the adventures of one of folklore's most attractive...

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