1600 now in the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1924.

Thomas-Stanford, Charles. Early Editions of Euclid's Elements. Library, Vol. v (June, 1924), 39-42.

Thompson, E. N. S. Literary Bypaths of the Renaissance. Yale University Press, 1924.

Rev. in LTS., June 5, 1924, p. 352.

Tietjens, Eugenie. Englische Zahlwörter des 15./16. Jahrhunderts. Formelles, Syntaktisches, Stilistisches. Diss., Greifswald,

1924.

Vedel, V. Hoejrenaessancen, Syd og Nord for Alperne. Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1923.

Von Boehn, Max. Die Mode. Menschen und Moden im 16. Jahrhundert. Munich: F. Bruckman, 1923.

Wells, H. W. Poetic Imagery, Illustrated from Elizabethan Literature. New York: Columbia University Press; London: Milford, 1924.

Williams, E. Roland. Some Studies of Elizabethan Wales. Newtown: The Welsh Outlook Press, 1924. Pp. 169.

The work contains fourteen short studies, written some eight years ago, principally on Welsh adventurers and piracy in the Elizabethan period. Among the more interesting individuals treated at some length are Thomas Prys, “Gwilym Canoldref” (Captain William Myddleton), Sir Roger Williams, who is called "Fluellen in Real Life," the braggart David Gwynne, Sir Thomas Button, and Sir Robert Mansell. Of special interest to Americans is the chapter on Cambrial, the forgotten Welsh colony, which Sir William Vaughan attempted to establish in Nova Scotia.

On the whole, the book is interesting, and the author is not overzealous in his claims for the Welsh. In this last respect Mr. Williams's book is saner than some of the numerous studies which have recently discussed the Elizabethan Welshman.

Wise, Thomas James. The Ashley Library. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Autograph Letters Collected by Thomas James Wise. Vol. IV (Pope to Settle), Vol. V (Shadwell-Sterne). London: Privately Printed, 1924.

Wright, C. T. Hagberg and Purnell, C. J. Subject Index to the London Library. Vol. II (1909-22). London Library,

Wyld, Henry Cecil. Studies in English Rhymes from Surrey to Pope. New York: Dutton, 1924. Pp. xiii, 140.

A discussion, in simple language and without phonetic notation, of an important subject. The book is admirably organized since it gives, first, a clear statement of the problems to be solved; next, a discussion of the nature of these problems and the method of treatment; and, finally, a carefully arranged body of material from which the author's conclusions are drawn. Rhymes faulty to the modern ear are not to be dismissed as due to carelessness or ignorance or poetic license. The poet may not have pronounced both words as we do; or if his pronunciation was provincial or vulgar, it may have been perfect according to regional habits of speech. The argument is based on study of the language from Chaucer's time to the period under discussion; it tests material by poetic tradition, by statements of contemporary writers on pronunciation, by occasional spellings found in letters and private papers and documents and even printed books. The author concludes that "the more we know of the English language from Elizabeth to Ann the clearer and more certain becomes the perception of the intimate relation of the language of the great poets to that of real life."

Zabughin, V. L'oltretomba classico, medioevale, dantesco nel Rinascimento. Firenze: Olschki, 1923.

II. THE DRAMA AND THE STAGE

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Adams, Joseph Quincy. Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas. Selection of Plays Illustrating the History of the English Drama from its Origin Down to Shakespeare. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924. Pp. vii, 712.

A well selected collection of some sixty-four specimens illustrating the development of English drama up to the time of Shakspere. The book is of the same general nature as Professor Manly's well-known Specimens, though of a somewhat more popular nature; hence it is suitable for both the general reader and the college student. Among the productions in the present volume which are not found in Professor Manly's collection are several liturgical plays, three St. Nicholas plays, Dux Moraud, Mary Magdalene, The Castle of Perseverance, Everyman, Heywood's Johan Johan and Wether, Gascoigne's Supposes, Damon and Pithias, The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, and George a Greene. In the case of early Latin productions the original text and prose translation are printed in parallel columns; throughout the work words and phrases that may cause trouble to the general reader are explained at the bottom of the page; helpful, but sometimes inadequate, introductions are given in foot-notes at the beginning of each play. Professor Adams has evidently labored conscien

tiously to supply his readers with reliable texts; and the publishers have succeeded in printing those texts in decent type—an unusual performance in a seven-hundred page volume of selections.

Allison, Tempe E. The Paternoster Play and the Origin of the Vices. PMLA., XXXIX, 789-804.

An ingenious study of medieval drama that should be read by all students of the Elizabethan stage.

Archer, William. Elizabethan Stage and Restoration Drama. Quarterly Review, No. 479 (April, 1924).

A criticism of ideas of Elizabethan stage as advanced by Mr. E. K. Chambers and Professor J. Q. Adams.

Aronstein, Phillip. Der soziologische Charakter des englischen Renaissance-Dramas. Germanische-Romanische Monats

schrift, XII, 155-71; 214-24.

Baldwin, T. W. The Three Francis Beaumonts. MLN., XXXIX, 505-7.

Baskervill, Charles Read. Mummers' Wooing Plays in England. MP., XXI, 225-72.

Berdan, John M. Marlowe's Edward II. PQ., III, 197-207.

Points out the parallels between events in the reigns of Edward II and James of Scotland, and suggests that Marlowe in his rather sympathetic treatment of Edward is answering the criticism that had been made against the Scottish claimant to the English throne. Bittner, Konrad. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Volksschauspiels von Doktor Faust. Prager Deutsche Studien, 27 Heft. Reichenberg, 1922.

Rev. by Hermann M. Flasdieck in Eng. Stud., Bd. 58, 250-3.

Boas, F. S. and Greg, W. W. The Christmas Prince. Malone Society Publications. Oxford University Press, 1923.

Rev. in LTS., Jan. 31, 1924, p. 62.

Seventeenth century MS. giving an account of the revels at St. John's College, Oxford, during winter of 1607-1608.

Bradley, J. F. and Adams, J. Q. The Jonson Allusion-Book. Yale Univ. Press, 1922.

Rev. by G. C. Moore Smith in MLR., XIX, 111-13.

Braines, W. W. The Site of the Globe Playhouse, Southwark. Published by Arrangement with the London County Council.

Second Edition, revised and enlarged. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924.

A reply to Mr. George Hubbard's On the Site of the Globe Playhouse of Shakspere (1923). Mr. Braines gives further arguments for locating the theater to the south of Maid-Lane (Park Street).

Briggs, William Dinsmore.

MLN., XXXIX, 379-80.

First Song in the Beggar's Bush.

Source is one of Erasmus's colloquies.

Briggs, William Dinsmore. On the Meaning of the Word Lake' in Marlowe's Edward II. MLN., XXXIX, 437-38.

Busby, Olive Mary. Studies in the Development of the Fool in the Elizabethan Drama. London, 1923.

Rev. by W. W. Greg in MLR., XIX, 230-1.

Byrne, Muriel St. Clare (ed.). John a Kent and John a Cumber. Malone Society Reprints. Oxford University Press, 1923. Careful edition from the Mostyn MS.

Campion, Thomas. The Maske. By Thomas Campion. As produced at Hatfield Palace on May 30 and 31, 1924, for the Benefit of the Hertfordshire County Nursing Association. Chelsea Publishing Co., 1924.

Carter, Henry Holland (ed.). Every Man in His Humour. Yale Univ. Press, 1921.

Rev. by William Dinsmore Briggs in JEGP., XXIII, 142-8.

Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. Oxford Univ. Press, 1923.

Rev. by W. J. Lawrence in The Irish Statesman, Jan. 12, 1924; by R. B. McKerrow in EHR., XXXIX, 430-4; by Allardyce Nicoll in MLR., XIX, 474-6; by John M. Manly in Am. Historical Review, XXIX, 760-2; by A. W. Pollard in Library, iv, 332-6; in LTS., March 6, 1924, pp. 133-4; by George Saintsbury in Nation and Athenaeum, Feb. 9, 1924, p. 670.

Chambers, E. K. (ed.). Four Letters on Theatrical Affairs. Malone Society Collections, II, 2 (1924), 145-9.

Chelli, Maurice. Le Drame de Massinger. Paris: Société d'Editions "Les Belles-Lettres," 1924. Pp. 389.

Rev. in LTS., May 29, 1924, p. 334; by Bourgeois in Rev. Ang. Am., Oct., 1924, pp. 57-8.

In a brief preface to this posthumous work Professor Legouis informs us that the author died in 1918 at the age of thirty-five, that the present study is one of his theses accepted at the Sorbonne, and that a supplementary study entitled Etude sur la Collaboration de Massinger avec Fletcher et son groupe remains in manuscript. If the writer had lived to prepare his work for the press, he would, of course, have made several improvements. The study is sometimes unnecessarily detailed, it contains a few rather bad typographical errors, on several occasions the authorities cited are not the most reliable writers to whom the reader could have been referred, and certain valuable discussions of Massinger which appeared since 1918 are necessarily unnoted. On the other hand, the study, like most French theses, is characterized by its thoroughness, clarity and logical arrangement. On the whole, it is a permanent contribution to the literature on Massinger.

Roughly, the treatment of Massinger falls into three large parts. A brief and not altogether satisfactory survey of Elizabethan drama is followed by a careful and detailed presentation of the facts about the poet's life and reputation, which, while correcting various erroneous statements regarding the dramatist, adds little that is new. The rest of the thesis-nearly three hundred pages-is devoted to a minute dissection of Massinger as a dramatist, discussing at length the peculiarities of his verse and style, his manner of handling plot and stage situations, his methods in selecting and presenting his characters, his use of human emotions, and his treatment of such themes as love, politics, and religion. In view of the recent work of such students as Sykes and Cruickshank, one especially regrets that the treatment of Massinger's collaboration was not printed. From a statement of the results of M. Chelli's investigations (cf. pp. 80-1, 348-50), it is interesting to note that he did not believe that Massinger's hand is to be found in The Two Noble Kinsmen but entertained the view that Henry VIII was Shakspere's work revised by Massinger and Fletcher.

Craig, Gordon. John Evelyn and the Theatre in England, France, and Italy. The Mask, Vol. x (1924).

Crawford, Lord. John Lyly. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, Vol. VIII, No. 2 (1924).

Cruickshank, A. H. Massinger Corrections. Library, v, No. 2, 175-9.

Cruickshank, A. H. Massinger. LTS., June 5, 1924, p. 356. Dondo, Mathurin. Marionettes in the Time of Shakespeare. University of California Chronicle, xxv (July, 1923), 356-66. Dodds, M. Hope. Edmond Ironside' and 'The Love-Sick King." MLR., XIX, 158-68.