The Life of Cervantes

Chapter iv., Part I., of _Don Quixote_. The curate and the barber are

overhauling the Don’s library--“those unconscionable books of disventures,” the tales of chivalry over which he would pore for eight-and-forty hours together--and of the hundred large volumes, and a good number of small ones, only some half-dozen escape the bonfire that has been built of them in the back yard. The...