The Bride of Lammermoor is the greatest love-story ever written, and it was nothing short of desecration to make a libretto of it; but so far as the last act is concerned the opera certainly conveys the impression that the heroine is a raving lunatic.

'I would much rather know about the Greek love-story,' Margaret objected.

"Jane Eyre," perhaps the most poignant love-story in the English tongue, was published on October 16, 1847.

As a love-story this novel is not remarkable.

With this poem the love-story proper comes to a close, and "the melancholy, no doubt more than half imaginary and poetical, of his love poems seems to broaden out into a deeper sadness embracing life as a whole, and in which disappointed passion is but one of the many elements."

Hence there it no love-story so affecting as that of Paulo and Francesca thus told and perpetuated in another world; no father's misery so enforced upon us as Ugolino's, who, for hundreds of years, has not grown tired of the revenge to which it wrought him.

Oh where, Rinaldo, thy repute for wise? Oh where, Rinaldo, thy sagacious heed? Oh where, Rinaldo, thy free-thoughted eyes? Oh where, Rinaldo, thy good arms and steed? Oh where, Rinaldo, thy renown and glory? Oh where, Rinaldo, thou?In a love-story.

He made no sign, he sent no excuse; he simply continued to absent himself; and it was Undine who, in due course, had to make way for Mrs. Lipscomb's caller, and sit upstairs with a novel while the drawing-room below was given up to the enacting of an actual love-story.

It is the doctor's love-story (a story so complicated that I cannot attempt a précis) which is the designedly central but actually subordinate theme.

" "The tories generally received the worst of every encounter," remarked Higgins; "at least, so all our love-story tellers say."

It was the first love-story I ever wrote, for hitherto I have not known enough about such things to be able to do it.

In like manner the love-story of Tristan and Isolde, which came probably from Brittany or Cornwall, was joined by other romancers to the Arthur-saga.

Not a few of the critics of my first book, ignoring the difference between a romantic love-story and a story of romantic love, fancied they could refute me by simply referring to some ancient romantic story.

The Lady and the Tiger A Greek Love-Story Persian Love Hero and Leander The Elephant and the Lotos Suicide is Selfish XII.

The error is of long standing, as the following story related by the Persian poet Saadi (of the thirteenth century) will show (346): AN ORIENTAL LOVE-STORY

A KAFFIR LOVE-STORY Among the twenty-one tales collected in Theal's Kaffir Folk Lore there is one which approximates what we call a love-story.

" A SLAVE COAST LOVE-STORY Travelling a short distance northwest from Kamerun we reach the Slave Coast of West Africa, to which A.B. Ellis has devoted two interesting books, including chapters in the folklore of the Yoruba and Ewe-speaking peoples of this region.

BARRINGTON'S LOVE-STORY

It is a romantic love-story, but there is no indication anywhere of romantic love, while some of the details are fictitiously embellished.

"The courtship of Ruth and Boaz is a bold and pretty love-story."

There is only one passage which is objectionably coarse in the English version and in the Hebrew original obscene; yet, on the other hand, I maintain that the whole poem is purely Oriental in its exclusively sensuous and often sensual character, and that there is not a trace of romantic sentiment such as would color a similar love-story if told by a modern poet.

Its plot can be told in such a way as to make it seem a romantic love-story, if not a story of romantic love.

But it is in examining the attitude of Antigone that we realize most vividly how short this drama falls of being a love-story.

THE HOOGLEE SCHOOL-MASTER," "THE END OF THE WORLD," ETC 1888 TO ONE WHO KNOWS WITH ME A LOVE-STORY, NOW MORE THAN FIFTEEN YEARS IN LENGTH, AND BETTER A HUNDREDFOLD THAN ANY I SHALL EVER BE ABLE TO WRITE, THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED, ON AN ANNIVERSARY.

"What is there to tell?" said Uncle Prosper, knowing well that the love-story would be communicated to him.