CONTENTS

I.-Fielding's Political Purpose in Jonathan Wild. By

JOHN EDWIN WELLS

II.-Studies in the Epic Poem Godefroi de Bouillon. II. By

HUGH A. SMITH

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

By SAMUEL MOORE

IV.-The Theme of Paradise Lost. By ELBERT N. S.

THOMPSON

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56

79

106

121

140

V.-Notes on Manuscripts of the Prophecies de Merlin.

By LUCY ALLEN PATON

VI. Casimir Delavigne Intime. By ALICÉE FORTIER

VII.-Development of the Progressiv Form in Germanic. By

GEORGE O. CURME

VIII. The Visión Delectable of Alfonso de la Torre and

Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed. By J. P.

WICKERSHAM CRAWFORD

IX.-A Peculiar Phase of the Theory of Realism in Pre-

Richardsonian Fiction. By ARTHUR JERROLD TIEJE 213

X.-Histoire de l'Impression et de la Publication du Dis-

cours sur l'Inégalité, de J.-J. Rousseau. By AL-

BERT SCHINZ

XI.-The Early Fame of The Shepheards Calender. By C.

R. BASKERVILL

XII. The Mediæval Debate between Wine and Water. By

JAMES HOLLY HANFORD

XIII.-Animals in Early English Ecclesiastical Literature,

650-1500. By CHRISTABEL F. FISKE

XIV. Personal Relationships in Medieval France. By WIL-

LIAM A. STOWELL

XV.-Publication before Printing. By ROBERT K. ROOT 417

XVI.—Mrs. Behn's Biography a Fiction. By ERNEST BERN-

XVII. The Extant Repertory of the Early Sicilian Poets.

By ERNEST F. LANGLEY

454

521

XVIII-Chaucer's Retractions. By JOHN S. P. TATLOCK

XIX. The Vogue of Richard Jefferies. By NORMAN FOERSTER 530

XX. Spenser and Two Old French Grail Romances. By

EDGAR A. HALL

XXI.-Deutschland ist Hamlet. By CARL F. SCHREIBER

XXII.-Inedited Letters of Fulvio Orsini to Antonio Agustín

By J. P. WICKERSHAM CRAWFORD

XXIII.-The Authorship of A Warning for Fair Women. By

JOSEPH QUINCY ADAMS, JR.

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