... by Professor Ford; but it should be noted that, in compensation for its brevity, it is followed by one of the best treatises in English on Spanish prosody. The most useful of the three surveys for the student who is just beginning the serious study of Spanish poetry is that of Professor Peers...

... Usage: German-English, English-German. ( Konversationslexikon der ame rikan i s c hen und deut s c h en Sprache.) Edited by J. ALANPFEFFER. Published by the Intensive Language Program, American Council of Learned Societies, 1945. Pp. xxvi + 504. The Dictiomry of Everyday Usage...

...A. Laurence Muir Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE EARLY ENGLISH PSALTERS AND THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY By A. LAURENCEMUIR A comparison of the Early English Psalters uncovers a mine of information about...

..., rather different study. A. S. G. EDWARDS University of Victmk B@we Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Faction. By J. PAULHUNTER. New York: Norton, 1990. xxv + 421 pp. $25.00. Desire and Tmth: Functions of Plot...

... of Massachusetts, 32 (February 1935), 299. Priuate Chronicles: A Study of English Diaries. By ROBERTA. FOIHERGILL. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1974. 214 pp. f1.50; $14.50. Except for the few famous ones, English diaries generally have been con- signed...

...Kevin S. Kiernan Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 ATHELSTON AND THE RHYME OF THE ENGLISH ROMANCES By KEVINS. KIERNAN Perhaps the most detrimental attitude to an understanding arid ap- preciation...

... of Christian Poetry in Old English. By JOHNGARDNER. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press; London and Amsterdam: Feffer k Simons, 1975. xii + 147 pp. $8.95. In the compass of this small book-four pages of introduction and 120 of actual textJohn Gardner...

...Ilona Bell Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 “SETTING FOOT INTO DIVINITY” GEORGE HERBERT AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATION By ILONA BELL Most critics of The Temple have taken George Herbert’s Angli- canism...

... of Eriglisli Duiru~i in the Late Severiteentli Ceriiio‘y. By ROBERTD. HUME.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. xv + 525 pp. $37.50. Because Robert Hume has given us an often excellent chronicle of changes in English popular dramatic entertainment from 1660 to 1710, I wish he had hit on a more...

...Robert L. Montgomery Alastair Fowler. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1975. viii + 152 pp. £4.50. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 REVIEWS Conceilful Thought: The Interpretation of English Renaissance Poems. By ALASTAIRFOWLER...

...Daniel G. Calder C. Fowler David. Seattle: University of Washington Press; London: Sheldon Press, 1976. x + 263 pp. $14.95. Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 REVIEWS The Bible in Early English Literature. By DAVIDC. FOWLER.Seattle: Uni...

..., and no topic of importance to the criticism of Sidney’s work has been neglected. ROBERTL. MONTGOMERY Uniuersity of Calfornia, Inline Conjnement and Flight: An Essay on English Literature of the Eighteenth Century. By W. B. CARNOCHAN.Berkeley...

... and Culler have to of- fer. W. DAVIDSHAW University of Toronto Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the “Oxford English Dictionary.” By K. M. ELISABETHMURRAY. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977...

... VIII. WILLIAMNELSON The Morris High School, New York City The Rise of Romantic Hellenism in English Literature, 1732-1 786. By BERNARDHERBERT STERN. Menasha, Wisconsin : George Banta Publishing Co., 1940. Pp. vii + 182. $2.25...

...Norman E. Eliason Albert H. Marckwardt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1942. Pp. xvii + 347. $2.15. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 476 Reviews Introduction to the English Language. By ALBERTH. MARCK- WARDT. New York: Oxford...

.... R. E. WATTERS University of Washington The English Notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Based upon the Original Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library and Edited by RANDALLSTEWART. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1941. Pp. xliv + 661. $6.00...

...Kemp Malone Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 SYLLABIC CONSONANTS IN ENGLISH By KEMPMALONE It is well known that English liquids and nasals, though reckoned consonants (i.e., asyllabic sounds), upon occasion serve as sonants (i.e...

...Louis B. Wright George Sampson. Cambridge, England: At the University Press; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Pp. xiv + 1094. $4.50. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 Loi~isB. Wright 493 The Concise Cambridge History of English...

...Joseph E. Tucker Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF MOLIERE By JOSEPH E. TUCKER A correct and complete bibliographical study of the eighteenth- century English...

... Uniwersity of California, Irvine Love’s Architecture: Devotional Modes in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry. By AN- THONY LOW.New York: New York University Press, 1978. xix + 307 pp. $16.00, cloth; $6.95, paper. Anthony Low’s survey of the major devotional poets argues...