"No kind of literature is so generally attractive as Fiction. Pictures of
life and manners, and Stories of adventure, are more eagerly received by
the many than graver productions, however important these latter may be.
APULEIUS is better remembered by his fable of Cupid and Psyche than by
his abstruser Platonic writings; and the Decameron of BOCCACCIO has out-
lived the Latin Treatises, and other learned works of that author.
CANTERBURY TALES.
BY SOPHIA AND HARRIET LEE.
RICHARD BENTLEY, 8. NEW BURLINGTON STREET
(SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN):
BELL AND BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH,
CUMMING, DUBLIN; AND
GALIGNANI, PARIS.