text:  But these pleasing traits are not sufficient to atone for the improbability of the incidents relieved neither by the brilliant fancy of the East nor the lofty deeds of the romances of chivalry: and the reader wearied by the repetition of similar scenes and characters thinly disguised by change of name and place finds little reason to regret that "the children of the marriage of Theagenes and Chariclea " as these romances are termed by a writer quoted by d'Israeli in the "Curiosities of Literature"--have not continued to increase and multiply up to our own times