OF THE

MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION

OF

AMERICA

EDITED BY

WILLIAM GUILD HOWARD

SECRETARY OF THE ASSOCIATION

VOL. XXVII

NEW SERIES, VOL. XX

PUBLISHT QUARTERLY BY THE ASSOCIATION
PRINTED BY J. H. FURST COMPANY

BALTIMORE

TO

CHARLES HALL GRANDGENT

FOR TEN YEARS

SECRETARY

VIGILANT JUDICIOUS HELPFUL

WHOSE DEVOTED SERVICE ENABLED THE ASSOCIATION

ΤΟ THRIVE AND BRING FORTH GOOD FRUIT ABUNDANTLY

THIS VOLUME

IS GRATEFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY

DEDICATED

I.-Modern Thought in Meredith's Poems. By J. W.

CUNLIFFE,

II.-The Letters of Charlotte.-An Antidote to Die Leiden

des jungen Werthers. By ROBERT WITHINGTON,

III.—The Triumphe of Death translated out of Italian by

the Countesse of Pembrooke. By FRANCES BERKE-

LEY YOUNG,

98

IV. Teofilo Folengo's Moschaea and José de Villaviciosa's

La Mosquea. By J. P. WICKERSHAM CRAWFORD, 76

V.-A New Source for Mankind. By W. ROY MACKENZIE,

-VI.-The Clerk of Oxenford. By H. S. V. JONES,

VII.-Richard the Third, Act I, Scene 4. By ROBERT ADGER

LAW,

106

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VIII. Studies in the Epic Poem Godefroi de Bouillon. By

HUGH A. SMITH,

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IX. -Marivaux's Place in the Development of Character

Portrayal. By EDWARD CHAUNCEY BALDWIN,

X.-Patrons of Letters in Norfolk and Suffolk, c. 1450.

By SAMUEL MOORE,

XI.-The Haunted Mere in Beowulf. By WILLIAM WITH-

ERLE LAWRENCE,

XII.-The Influence of Greene on Shakspere's Early Romance.

By JOSEPH L. TYNAN,

:

XIII. The Enueg. By RAYMOND THOMPSON HILL,

XIV.-Romantic Aspects of the Age of Pope. By RAYMOND

D. HAVENS,

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XV.-The Poe Canon. By KILLIS CAMPBELL,

XVI.-The Later Manner of Mr. Henry James. By CLARA

F. MCINTYRE,

XVII.-À Propos d'un Prisonnier à Pierre-Scize, visité par

Mme. de Sévigné. By BENJ. M. WOODBRIDGE,

XVIII.-Suicide in the Plays of Shakespeare. By JAMES

HOLLY HANFORD,

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XIX. Sources of the Académie de l'Art poëtique of Pierre

de Deimier: Peletier du Mans. By LUCY M. GAY, 398

XX.-The Harmonizing of Grammatical Nomenclature, with

Especial Reference to Mood-Syntax. By WM.

GARDNER HALE,

XXI.-The Source of Chaucer's Anelida and Arcite. By

EDGAR F. SHANNON,

461

XXII.-The Shakesperean Mob. By FREDERICK TUPPER, JR., 486

XXIII.-A Reclassification of the Perceval Romances. By

GEORGE B. WOODS,

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