Vento, Sebastiano. L'essenza del secento. Rivista d'Italia, XXVIII, 313-335.

Villey, Pierre. Les grands écrivains du XVIe siècle. Evolution

Tome I.

des œuvres et invention des formes littéraires. Marot et Rabelais. Bibliothèque littéraire de la Renaissance, Nouvelle série, XI. Paris: Champion, 1923. Pp. xvii, 431. Rev. by Louis Brandin in MLR., xx, 352-354; by Caroline RuutzRees in Romanic Rev., XVI, 362-368. See this Bibliography, 1925, p. 345.

Viscardi, A. Note sulla letteratura del Rinascimento. La Cultura, IV, 145 ff.

Discusses the Renaissance as a continuation of the Middle Ages, suggesting that a growing objectivism, however, led to impersonality, and so to a waning of the mediaeval individualism. The idea is, of course, similar to the central theme of Henry Osborn Taylor's Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century. (B)

Vogt, George McGill. Gleanings for the History of a Sentiment: Generositas Virtus, non Sanguis. JEGP., XXIV, 102-124. A wide and interesting collection of varied material from Seneca to William Morris, though strangely neglecting such obvious examples as occur in the seventeenth-century Whole Duty of Man and Defoe's Compleat English Gentleman.

Wähler, Martin. Die Blütezeit des Erfurter Buchgewerbes (14501530). Mitt. des Ver. f. Gesch. u. Altertumskde. von Erfurt, 42, 1924. Pp. 58.

Watson, George. Present State of Scottish Studies. Leuvensche Bijdragen, XVII, 83-96.

Gives some information as to the publication of Scottish records. Whale, Winifred Stephens. History in Poetry from Agincourt to Rabelais. Contemp. Rev., cxXVII, 207-215.

Occasioned by Edouard Champion, Histoire poétique du quinzième siècle. Paris: Champion, 1923.

Wollaton Hall Library. Notes on Sales. LTS., May 28, 1925, p. 372.

II. THE DRAMA AND THE STAGE.

NOTE: This section has been made to include a number of items not strictly in the English field or in the Renaissance. This has been done in deference to the somewhat extended range of the current study of English drama.

Adams, Joseph Quincy. Chief Pre-Shakespearian Dramas. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.; London: Harrap, 1924. Pp. vii, 712.

Notice in LTS., July 23, 1925, p. 497; rev., LTS., Oct. 29, 1925, pp. 705-706; by Kemp Malone in MLN., XL, 39-43; by G. H. C. in Sewanee Review, xxx, 95-101. See this Bibliography, 1925, pp.

279-280.

Archer, William. The Old Drama and the New. London: Heinemann, 1923. Pp. viii, 396.

Rev. by Karl Arns in Eng. Stud., LIX, 112-125. See this Bibliography, 1924, pp. 406-407.

Arnold, Robert F (ed.). Das deutsche Drama. In Verbindung mit Julius Bab, Albert Ludwig, Friedrich Michael, Max J. Wolff herausgegeben von Robert F. Arnold. München: C. F. Beck, 1925, Pp. x, 868.

A general history of the German drama, the vernacular drama to the end of the sixteenth century being the work of Professor Michael. Aronstein, Ph. Das englische Renaissance-Theater.

Sprachen, XXXIII, 265-280.

Neueren

A pleasant and simply-written essay by way of review of Sir Edmund Chamber's The Elizabethan Stage.

Austen, John (illustrator). Everyman and Other Plays. London: Chapman and Hall, 1925.

Rev. in LTS., Nov. 26, 1925, p. 793.

Baldwin, T. W. On The Chronology of Thomas Kyd's Works. MLN., XL, 343-349.

The author reads "vj yeres nowe," instead of " iij yeres nowe," in the letter to Sir John Puckering (Boas, Kyd, xxiv-xxv, cviii-cx). This indicates that Kyd entered my Lord's service, and quit writing for the stage, in 1587. The proposed reading gives support to the author's arguments for early dates for both Soliman and Perseda and The Spanish Tragedy, and would make Kyd clearly the predecessor of Marlowe and Greene in the Elizabethan drama.

Barrow, Sarah F., and Hulme, W. H. The Medieval Religious Plays "Antichrist" and "Adam." Translated with an Introduction. Cleveland: Western Reserve University Bulletin, XXVIII, No. 8., 1925.

Beaumont, Albert. The Hero: A Theory of Tragedy. London: Routledge, 1925. Pp. 144.

Rev. in LTS., July 23, 1925, p. 492.

Ben Jonson. Leading Article in LTS., July 30, 1925, pp. 501502.

Rev. of Herford and Simpson's edition of Jonson, volumes I and II. Bever, Jean. Un précurseur méconnu de notre théâtre classique: Robert Garnier (1545-1601). Rev. de France, v (No. 22), 404-409.

Birch, F., and Trend, J. D. Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, Life's a Dream. Translated for the English Stage. Cambridge: Heffer, 1925. Pp. xiii, 72.

Birrell, Francis. Beaumont and Fletcher. Nation and Ath., XXXVII, 205.

About projected stage revivals; casual criticism.

Birrell, Francis. Ben Jonson. Empire Review, Oct. 1925, pp. 392-396.

Borchling, C. Das ältere niederdeutsche Drama. Der Schimmelreiter, IV (Mar. 1925), 39-42.

Bradford, Gamaliel. The Women of Dekker. Sewanee Review, XXXIII, 284-290.

Bradner, Leicester. Stages and Stage Scenery in Court Drama before 1558. RES., 1, 447-448.

Brie, Friedrich. Das Märchen von Childe Rowland und sein Nachleben. Palaestra, 148.

Study of Christopher Middleton's Chinon of England, Peele's Old Wives' Tale, and Milton's Comus.

Burgherr, Willi. Johannes Mahler, ein schweitzerischer Dramatiker der Gegenreformation. Sprache und Dichtung, 33. Bern: Haupt, 1925, Pp. 166.

Cardozo, J. L. The Contemporary Jew in the Elizabethan Drama. Dissertation. Amsterdam, 1925. Pp. xvi, 335.

Cé, Camille, et Servajean, Henri (trans.). Le Tragédie de la Vengeance. Le Tragédie de l'Athée. Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, 1925.

Rev. in LTS., Sept. 17, 1925, p. 597.

Translation into French of Cyril Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy and The Atheist's Tragedy.

Chamard, H (ed. et trans.). Le Mystère d'Adam. Paris: Colin,

1925. Pp. xii, 101.

Chambers, Sir Edmund. The Elizabethan Stage. Four vols. Oxford University Press, 1923.

Rev. by Samuel C. Chew in MLN., XL, 355-359; by Hans Hecht in Deutsche Vierteljahrschrift, ш, 284-285; by H. M. Flasdieck in Literaturblatt, XLVI, 360-363; by W. W. Greg in RES., 1, 97-111. See this Bibliography, 1924, pp. 413-416; 1925, p. 281.

Chambers, Sir Edmund. Elizabethan Stage Gleanings. RES., 1, 75-78; 182-186.

Clark, Arthur Melville. Jonson Allusion in Jeremy Taylor.

N

& Q., Vol. 148, p. 459; Edward Bensly, Vol. 149, p. 31. Clark, Arthur Melville. A Marlowe Mystification. LTS., July 16, 1925, p. 480.

Reply to communication by J. M. Robertson, LTS., Dec. 11, 1924, p. 850.

Cohen, Gustav. Le livre du register pour le Mystère de la Passion jouué à Mons à 1501. Strasbourg: Faculté des Lettres, 1925.

Continuity in English Drama. Leading article in LTS., Oct. 29, 1925, pp. 705-706.

Review of Allardyce Nicoll, Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas (Adams), The Chief British Dramatists excluding Shakespeare (Matthews and Lieder), Comedies. By William Congreve (The World's Classics), and The Comic Spirit in Restoration Drama. By Henry Ten Eyck Perry (Yale University Press).

Craig, Edward Gordon. Books and Theaters. London: Dent, 1925. Rev. in LTS., Dec. 3, 1925, p. 827.

Discussion of various theatrical and personal topics including Evelyn's allusions to plays and theatres in Italy and elsewhere.

Crawford, J. P. Wickersham. The Spanish Drama before Lope de Vega. Publications of the University of Pennsylvania, Extra Series in Romance Languages and Literatures, 7. Philadelphia, 1922. Pp. 198.

Rev. by Wolfgang Wurzbach in Literaturblatt, XLVI, 372-374. See this Bibliography, 1924, p. 460.

Crawford and Balcarres, the Earl of. John Lyly. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, Vol. VIII, No. 2. Manchester University Press, 1924. Pp. 35.

Rev. by René Pruvost in Rev. Ang. Am., II, 436-437. See this Bibliography, 1925, p. 282.

Darlington, W. A. Literature in the Theater. London: Chapman and Hall, 1925. Pp. 207.

Commentary and survey by the dramatic critic of The Daily Telegraph.

de Kalb, Eugénie. The Death of Marlowe. LTS., May 21, 1925, p. 351.

Denkmäler des Theaters. Inszenierung, Dekoration, Kostüm des Theaters und der Grossen Festen aller Zeiten. 1. Burnacini's Maschere. Vienna: National Library; London: E. P. Goldschmidt, 1925.

Rev. in LTS., May 28, 1925, p. 361.

Published in England under the title: Monumenta scenica: The Art of the Theater.

Dobrée, Bonamy. Histriophone: A Dialogue on Dramatic Diction. London: The Hogarth Press, 1925. Pp. 40.

Rev. in LTS., July 16, 1925, p. 477.

Donnarel, A. Sur un passage du David et Bethsabie de G. Peele. Rev. Ang. Am., III, 432-434.

Dunn, Esther C. Ben Jonson's Art. Smith College. Northampton, Mass., 1925. Pp. xviii, 159.

Dutch Library. The Hague: Nijhoff; London: Gyldenhall (10 Orange St., W. C. 2), 1924.

Notice by J. G. R. in MLR., xx, 237-238; rev. by A. W. Reed in RES., I, 159-165.

Three numbers have been issued: Translations into English of Lanseloot van Denemerken, Esmoreit, sconincs sone van Ceciliën, and Mariken van Nieummeghen. All are early Dutch dramas.

Enders, John F. A Note on Jonson's Staple of News. MLN., XL, 419-421.

Reveals Jonson's knowledge of Simon Studion's Naometria, a cabalistic and mystical work existing in manuscript of 1593 to 1604. The question remains how Jonson became acquainted with it. The passages in question are in Act III, scene i.

Flood, William H. Grattan. Fennor and Daborne at Youghal in 1618. MLR., xx, 321-322.

Flood, William H. Grattan. Patent for Paris Garden in 1547. RES., 1, 461.

Frijlinck, Wilhelmina P (ed.). The Tragedy of Sir John van Olden Barnavelt. Amsterdam, 1922.