ON AUTHORS AND BOOKS, NO. IX

*Eustache Deschamps.* Except in the two centuries next after the conquest, contemporaneous French notices of early English writers seem to be of rather infrequent occurrence. On this account, and on other accounts, the ballad addressed to Geoffrey Chaucer by Eustache Deschamps deserves repetition. Its text requires to be established, in order that we may be aware of its real obscurities—for no future memoir of Chaucer can be considered as complete, without some reference to it. The best authorities on Eustache Deschamps are MM. Crapelet, Raynouard, and Paulin Paris. To M. Crapelet we are indeb…