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[Amadis de Gaul: By VASCO LOBEIRA. From the Spanish version of Garciordonez de Montalvo. By ROBERT SOUTHEY. And Amadis de Gaul: A poem, in Three Books. Freely Translated from the French of NICOLAS DE HERBERAY, by WILLIAM STEWART ROSE.-From Edinburgh Review for Oct. 1803.]

THE fame of Amadis de Gaul has reached to the present day, and has indeed become almost provincial in most languages of Europe. But this distinction has been attained rather in a mortifying manner for the hero seems much less indebted for his present renown to his historians, Lobeira, Montalvo, and Herberay, than to Cervantes, who select

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EDINBURGH PUBLISHED 1835 BY ROBERT CADEIL, & WHITTAKER & LOND

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