Taylor, George Coffin. Shakspere's Debt to Montaigne. Harvard University Press, 1925. Pp. 66.

Rev. in LTS., Dec. 24, 1925, p. 895.

This is a clear, concise book which gives the results of an extended study of Florio's Montaigne and the works of Shakespeare. It is made up of parallels in words, phrases, and longer passages. Some of them seem to the reviewer so close as to be convincing; and of course if one grants that some of them are valid, the result is a heightened importance to others which are less obvious. The author has modestly declined to expatiate or to insist on parallels in points of view and life philosophy. To the body of new parallels are added tables of words and phrases used by Montaigne and by Shakespeare after, and not before, the appearance of the translation. These are progressively less frequent as time elapsed except in the case of The Tempest. To account for their higher frequency there it is suggested that Shakespeare may have reread Montaigne. The parallels in passages of greater length also grow fewer, and the whole situation constitutes an argument of probability that Shakespeare read Montaigne and was influenced by him very strongly at the time the translation was made, but gradually lost his conscious memory of the book.

Thompson, Lilian Gilchrist. The Name of Gobbo. LTS., Sept. 17, 1925, p. 600.

The name Gobbo occurs in Titchfield registers.

Thompson, William. Shakespeare's Handwriting. Quar. Rev., 244 (Apr. 1925), 209-226.

Argues that the scribblings on the title-page of the manuscript known as "Mr. Bacon's discourse in prayse of his Soveraigne" are in part genuine Shakespeare autograph. The name "William Shakespeare occurs several times and also, as is known from Spedding's description, "Richard the Second," "Richard the Third."

Thorndike, Ashley Horace. Why a Shakespeare Association?
Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-2.
Tilley, M. T. Much Ado About Nothing (V, i, 178). MLN, XL,
186-188.

Tilley, M. T. Two Shakespearean Notes. JEGP., xxiv, 315-324.

The first note cites the fact that fat and sweat were identical in a popular physiological misconception of Shakespeare's day as an explanation of Ham. V, ii, 274 (He's fat and scant of breath); the second deals with the meaning of "What is't o'clock?" in Elizabethan English.

Tolman, Albert H. Falstaff and Other Shakespearean Topics. New York: Macmillan, 1925. Pp. xi, 270.

This volume is a collection of papers on Shakespeare, most of which have been published before; mainly in the Publications of the Modern Language Association and in Modern Language Notes. There are, however, a number of new essays. The quality of the book is conservative, and its merit is a marvelously sound exposition. The author is an intelligent Shakespeare scholar who knows the later points of view but is never swept off his feet by them. He takes up many perennial questions: such as drunkenness in Shakespeare's plays, the puritanism of Malvolio, the nature of the Fool in King Lear, Shakespeare's supposed references to his marriage, and says the sensible thing about each of them. In "The Early History of Shakespeare's Reputation," ""Earnest and Jest in Shakespearean Scholarship, 17091747," and "The Proper Treatment of Shakespeare's Text," he gives mild and clear views of recent Shakespeare scholarship. To the reviewer the book is admirable, delightful, and characteristic. The longest groups of studies are devoted to King Lear and Julius Caesar. Tucker, T. G. The Sonnets of Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press, 1924. Pp. 239.

Rev. by J. Dover Wilson in RES., 1, 353-359; by Charles Garnier in Rev. Ang. Am., п, 542-545. See this Bibliography, 1925, p. 306. Tynan, Joseph L. The Woman in the Case. Shakespeare Association Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 3-6.

Recommends a somewhat psycho-analytic point of view in the study of Shakespeare and illustrates by a consideration of Lady Macbeth. Van Dam, B. A. P. The Text of Shakespeare's Hamlet. London: John Lane, 1924. Pp. vii, 380.

Rev. by W. W. Greg in MLR., xx, 83-88; by Hardin Craig in PQ., IV, 187-188; see English Studies, VII, 21-23, reply by Van Dam to rev. by A. W. Pollard in that periodical, v1, 221 ff. See this Bibliography, 1925, pp. 306-307.

Van Dam, B. A. P. Textual Criticism of Shakespeare's Plays. English Studies, VII, 97-115.

Vogeler, Erich. Wie steht's mit Hamlet? Berliner Tageblatt, LIV (1925), Nr. 126.

Watt, H. A. Plautus and Shakespeare. Further Comments on Menæchmi and The Comedy of Errors. Class. Journal, xx, 401-407.

Wellstood, Frederick C. Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Works of Art, Antiquities, and Relics exhibited in Shake

speare's Birthplace. Compiled by Frederick C. Wellstood. With a Preface by Sir Sidney Lee. Stratford-on-Avon: Trustees and Guardians, 1925. Pp. 176.

Notice in LTS., June 25, 1925, p. 433; in N & Q., Vol. 149, p. 234. Werner, Bruno E (trans.). Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis. Deutsche Übertragung. Leipzig: Inselverlag, 1924.

Notice in Archiv, N. S. XLVIII, 301-302.

Werner, Bruno E. Venus und Adonis. Beitrag zur stilgeschicht. lichen Betrachtung Shakespeares. Das Inselschiff, vi (Apr. 1925), 99-114.

Wheldon, F. W. The Red King. Norwich: Jarrold, 1924. Pp. 52. Notice in LTS., Jan. 15, 1925, p. 41.

A modern play written in "Shakespearean prose," dealing with a slender historical theme of Norman England.

Wilder, Malcolm L. Shakespeare's "Small Latin." MLN., XL, 380-381.

Cites Senecan parallels (Controversiae, II, v, 12, and 20) to 1 Hen. IV, II, iii, 112, and 40-65; further parallels cited and arguments somewhat weakened in reply by G. L. Kittredge, ibid., p. 440.

Willige, W. Shakespeare als Dichter der Wiedergeburt. Neue jbr. f. Wissensch. u. Jugend-bildung, 1, (1925), 473-486. Wilson, F. P. The Jaggards and the First Folio of Shakespeare. LTS., Nov. 5, 1925, p. 737.

This article cites entries of the First Folio and other contemporaneously published books in the Mess-Katalog of books on sale at the Spring and Autumn Fairs held at Frankfort-on-the-Main. The Catalogue was published by John Bill, King's printer from 1617 to 1628. The First Folio is entered not only in the catalogue for the Spring Mart of 1624 but also for the Autumn Mart of 1622. This surprising entry is explained by Mr. Wilson, no doubt rightly, as due to the delay, long suspected, encountered by the publishers of the Folio. It seems to indicate that the Jaggards hoped that the book would be ready for circulation probably eighteen months before it was actually issued.

Wilson, Richard (ed.). The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII. By William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. Kings' Treasuries of Literature. London: Dent, 1925. Winstanley, Lilian. Othello as the Tragedy of Italy, showing that Shakespeare's Italian Contemporaries interpreted the Story

of the Moor and the Lady of Venice as symbolizing their Country in the Grip of Spain. London: Fisher Unwin, 1924. Pp. 152.

Notice in Archiv, N. S. XLVIII, 303; rev. by G. S. Gargano in Marzocco, xxx, 45 (Nov. 9, 1925), which opposes the rather singular theory advanced by Miss Winstanley. (B) Rev. by Osbert Burdett in London Mercury, XII, 101-103; in Lit. Zentr.-bl., LXXVI (June 15, 1925), 952-953. See this Bibliography, 1925, pp. 308-309.

Wolff, Max (ed.). Shakespeare, Die Beiden Veroneser. Auf Grund der Übertragung von Dorothea Tieck. Leipzig: Inselverlag, 1925.

Wolff, Max J (ed.). Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Auf Grund der Übertragung Baudissins. Leipzig: Inselverlag, 1925. Pp. 197.

Notice in Archiv, N. S. XLVIII, 303.

IV. NON-DRAMATIC WORKS.

Allen, P. S. Erasmus's Services to Learning. London: Milford, for the British Academy, 1925. Pp. 20.

Ardagh, J. Abraham Cowley. N & Q., Vol. 148, p. 229.

Biographical data.

Ault, Norman (ed.). Elizabethan Lyrics from the Original Texts. London: Longmans, 1925. Pp. xv, 536.

Rev. in LTS., Nov. 26, 1925, p. 796.

Bell, Aubrey F. G. Cetina's Madrigal. MLR., xx, 179-183. Bensley Edward. Alexander Hume. N & Q., Vol. 148, p. 102, Biographical detail concerning the author of Grammatica Nova,

1612.

Bergen, Henry (ed.). Lydgate's Fall of Princes. Three vols. Vol. IV in preparation. The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1923. Pp. lxv, 1044.

Rev. by Eleanor Prescott Hammond, Beiblatt, XXXVI, 15-20, with interesting remarks on The Fall of Princes as a piece of transitional literature; see also rev. by Max Forster, Beiblatt, XXXVI, 33-42. Blackie, E. M (ed.). A Most Friendly Farewell to Sir Francis Drake. By Henry Robarts. Transcribed with a short Introduction by E. M. Blackie. Harvard University Press, 1924. Notice in Library, v, 383; in Sewanee Rev., XXXIII, 255; in LTS., Feb.

26, 1925, p. 141; by E. P. K. in MCN., XL., 128. See this Bibliography, 1925, p. 323.

Bodley Head Quartos. Vols. IX, X. London: Lane, 1924.

Notice by R. B. McK. in MLR., xx, 371; by René Pruvost in Rev. Ang. Am., II, 342-344.

The contents of these volumes are: King James's Daemonologie, 1597; Newes from Scotland declaring the Damnable Life and Death of Doctor Fian, 1591; and Robert Greene's Blacke Bookes Messenger, 1592, with Cuthbert Conny-Catcher's' Defense of Conny-Catching, 1592.

Borchardt, Georg. Schreibung, Aussprache und Formenbau im Tagebuch des Richard Cocks (1615-1622). Giessen: Englisches Seminar, 1925. Pp. 30.

Bredvold, Louis I. The Religious Thought of Donne in Relation to Medieval and Later Traditions. In Studies in Shakespeare, Milton and Donne. By Members of the Department of English of the University of Michigan (New York: Macmillan, 1925. Pp. 232), 193-232.

Bridges, Horace (ed.). Erasmus: In Praise of Folly. Edited with an Essay of Appreciation by Horace Bridges. Also the pictures of Holbein etched in the author's time, to which are added Mr. Angarola's conception of the period and drawings by way of contemporary comment by Gene Markey, new ltd. ed. Chicago: P. Covici, 1925. Pp. lvii, 280. Brie, Friedrich. Ein verschollenes Gedicht von Joshuah Sylvester. Archiv, N. S. XLVIII, 247-249.

Brougham, Eleanor M (ed.). Varia: A Miscellany of Verse and Prose. Ancient and Modern. Compiled and Annotated by Eleanor M. Brougham. London: Heinemann, 1925.

Rev. in LTS., June 25, 1925, p. 429; in N & Q., Vol. 148, p. 396.

Brown, W. J. Jeremy Taylor. English Theologians. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1925. Pp. 224. Notice in LTS., Oct. 22, 1925, p. 703.

Elizabethans. London: Chapman & Hall, 1924.

Bullen, A. H.
Pp. xi, 226.

Rev. by R. B. McKerrow, RES., 1, 118-120; by G. C. Moore Smith in MLR., xx, 88-90; in Lit. Zentr.-bl., LXXVI (Feb. 15, 1925), 259. See this Bibliography, 1925, pp. 310-311.