... prac- titioners of historical-bibliographical writing to shoot at. ARTHURM. COON Beloit College Milton’s Contemporary Reputation: An Essay together with “A Tentative List of Printed Allusiom to Milton, 1641-1674,” and facsimile...

.... HERBERTMERI~T Stanford University The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction: A History of Its Criticism and a Guide for Its Study, with an Annotated Check List of 215 Imaginary Voyages from 1700 to 1800. By PHILIPBAB- COCK GOVE. (Columbia University Studies in English and Com...

...Francis Lee Utley Roger Sherman Loomis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. Pp. 32. $0.60. Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 REVIEWS Introduction to Medieval Literature Chiefly in England: A Reading List and Bibliography. Second...

.... RICHARDH. PERKINSON Fordh am University A Check List of English Plays, 1641-1700. Compiled by GERTRUDEL. WOODWARDand JAMES G. MCMANAWAY.Chicago : The Newberry Library, 1945. Pp. [vii] + 155. Students of Commonwealth and Restoration drama will find this bibliography of editions...

...Evan K. Gibson Louis A. Landa and James Edward Tobin. New York: Cosmopolitan Science and Art Service Co., Inc., 1945. Pp. 62. $1.25. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Evan K. Gibsorz 507 Jonathan Smit: A List of Critical Studies...

...George Pope Shannon Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 NICHOLAS GRIMALD’S LIST OF THE MUSES By GEORGEPOPE SHANNON In “The Muses,” a poem of twenty-four lines published in Totters Miscellany, Nicholas Grimald addresses the Muses, names and char...

...Lawrence M. Price Paul Ben Baginsky. New York: The New York Public Library, 1942. Pp. xv + 217. © 1943 University of Washington 1943 260 Reviews German Works Relating to America, 1493-1 800. A List Compiled from the Collections of the New York Public Library...

...Gabriel Bonno Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 LISTE CHRONOLOGIQUE des PCriodiques de Langue Fransaise du Dix-huiti6me Si&cle By GABRIELBONNO Nous prksentons ici une liste chronologique des pkriodiques de langue fransaise...

...Jeffrey T. Schnapp The essay explores how literary practices of listing, cataloging, and inventorying are altered by the shift from classical, premodern, and early modern regimes of data scarcity (within which every piece of information is considered valuable a priori) to modern regimes of data...

.... A. Hammond, Medical Practitioners in Medieval England (London: Wellcome, 1965), p. 75, listing one “Henricus medicus de Alford” in the time of Edward I. l4 The local squire, Richard Billesby of Bilsby, was perhaps too young in this period, having proved his age only in 1440 (A. R. Maddison...

... by the Uni- versity of North Carolina as the opening number of a series en- titled Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures is not ex- actly what one would be led to expect by the title. It lists not only dictionaries but also general works, articles on phonology, morphol- 130...

... and books are cited, even when they deal with items published before 1939. The editors of these volumes are aware of errors and omissions that are bound to occur in such an immense undertaking. The first volume is especially weak in listing our American contributions. Errors...

... and the mid-1990s “sixty-three of the one hundred best-selling titles were written by a mere six writers.” 12 For now we are using the annual Publishers Weekly list of the year’s best-selling American novels as a proxy for the combined US and UK market. Sample tabulations indicate that the US...

... compiled by M Arthur Desfeuilles, published in 1893, as volume XI of Moliitre’s Collected Works, in the series “Les Grands 4crivains de la France.” However, the authors also included works which had been omitted there. Furthermore they have listed not only works of general criticism...

... and mag;Uines of this country. Even the large number of bound tomes which stand under his name on the library shelves were for the most part first composed for periodicals and only later collected into books. In A Bibliography of William Dean Howells Messrs. Gibson and Arms have listed...

.... They are profound and challenging. So may the lists be entered and the tilts begun! RUTH CARTERHOK Ann Arbor, Michigan A Critical Bibliography of the Published Writings of Romain Rolland. By WILLIAMTHOMAS STARR. Evanston : Northwestern...

... of Washington Irving’s Alhambra.” Add to the extract just given the list of David Copperfield’s extensive reading in the eighteenth-century novel (“written down as [autobiographical] fact, some years before it found its way into David CoPPerfield”’l), and the predominance of Irving as a possible...

... of importance has been done since 1860 in the field of Italian lin- guistics. Sincere tribute must be paid to the abnegation, patience, arid skill with which Mr. Hall has condensed, in his 543 pages and 3921 items, not only accurate information about the multifarious publications which are listed...

... of an introduction treating scope and method, a list of documents used, a bibliography, a list of text references, the main body of the work in seven chapters according to the order of the seven classes of strong verbs, a list of ablaut patterns, a section on general characteristics and trends, ap...

...-children. In 1875, when the Sociktk des anciens textes franqais was or- ganized, Simkon Luce proposed that the Society should draw up “une liste de textes qu’il serait le plus intkressant de publier afin de susciter des kditeurs pour ces publications.” On the occasion of celebrating its...