THE ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW AND MAGAZINE; OR, MONTHLY POLITICAL AND LITERARY CENSOR: FROM MAY TO SEPTEMBER (INCLUSIVE) 1806. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING AN AMPLE REVIEW OF FOREIGN LITERATURE. Bellum est in eos, qui judiciis coerceri non possunt. CICERO. VOLUME XXIV. LONDON: Printed, for the PROPRIETORS, by B. M'MILLAN, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden. ANTI JACOBIN Review and Magazine, &c. &c. &c. For MAY, 1806. "Non ego, cum scribo, si forte quid aptius exif, PERSIUS. ORIGINAL CRITICISM. Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, and Spain, and the adjoining Countries, from the latter Part of the Reign of Edward II. to the Coronation of Henry IV. Newly translated from the French Editions, with Variations and Additions from many celebrated MSS. By Thomas Johnes. The Second Edition. To which is prefixed, a "Life of the Author, an Essay on his Works, a Criticism on his History, and a Dissertation on his Poetry. 3 vols. 8vo. Pp. 1363. Accompanied with a small volume quarto, containing Plates, relating to Scenes described in the Chronicles. HE name of Froissart is familiar to every one at all acquainted with the history of England, France, Spain, and the Nether→ lands; for he is quoted or referred to by every historian, of the pes riod and places to which his Chronicles relate. But it is only a very few, at least in this country, who have had opportunities of perusing Froissart himself. Copies of Froissart, in the original French, are confined to the best libraries; and the old English translation, made by order of Henry VIII. has not only become exceedingly scarce, but the language of it obsolete, and, in some places, particularly those relating to proper names, almost unintelligible. The present publication, therefore, by the generality of readers, is to be considered, if not as a creation of something new, and before altogether unknown, yet as a revival and resurrection of what had passed into oblivion; and a very valuable and acceptable present it is, to all who are capable of deriving No. XCV. VOL. XXIV. B entertain |