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sentation. A thorough understanding of their achievement requires a careful study, 

 not only of Corneille, the most important of these dramatists, but also of the lesser 

 writers, who often showed the way to their illustrious contemporary. The present 

 volume studies exhaustively the life and plays of Du Ryer, who, after Corneille, 

 was in many ways the leading member of the group. Du Ryer's translations and 

 lyric poems are treated in their relation to his life and dramatic work. The book 

 contains an index, and is illustrated by vignettes and a plate reproduced from an 

 early edition of Du Ryer's tragedy "Saul." 

 No. 189. OSGOOD, CHARLES G. A Concordance to the Poems of Spenser. Quarto, 



xni+997 pages, 1 plate. Published 1915. Price $20.00. 



This book is an alphabetical list of all the words in the English poems of Edmund 

 Spenser. Under each word are quoted all the passages in which the word occurs, 

 except that for a few very frequent and unimportant words only a selected list of 

 quotations is given. The context of the word in each quotation is selected so as to 

 show, as far as space allows, the meaning and use of the word. The whole work 

 contains nearly 200,000 quotations. It is based upon the text of Richard Morris, 

 revised and corrected by editions which have appeared since the concordance was 

 begun. Spenser is usually ranked fourth among English poets, and his place in the 

 history both of the English language and of English poetry is peculiarly important 

 The object of the concordance is not only to illuminate the poet's meaning and art 

 in the use of words, but to afford aid to the historical study of the language and 

 literature similar to that to be derived from concordances to the Bible, Shakespeare, 

 Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, and other English poets. 

 No. 202. COOPER, LANE. A Concordance to the Works of Horace. Octavo, 



x+593. Published 1916. Price $7.00. 



This strictly analytical work records, in alphabetical order, every occurrence of 

 every word in Horace, and all the variant readings included in two standard modern 

 editions of the poet. Under each word is quoted every passage in which the word 

 occurs, with a numerical reference to poem and line; save that in the case of a few 

 particles, no quotations, but numerical references alone are given. The basic text 

 is that of Friedrich Vollmer (Leipsic, Teubner, 1912) ; his list of variants has been 

 supplemented by the inclusion of a few readings noted in the edition of Wickham 

 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903-1904). The arranging of related grammatical 

 forms under one heading has not been attempted; but homographs for example, 

 datives and ablatives ending in o have been carefully separated. No effort has 

 been spared to make the book typographically clear and easy to consult. 



The thought and language of Horace have exerted a profound and widespread 

 influence upon subsequent poets, English as well as Continental. In common with 

 other Latin authors, his works have in times past been indexed; but of the previous 

 verbal indexes still in print there is none that duly performs the functions of a 

 concordance or adequately serves the purposes of the students of modern as well as 

 ancient literature. Zangemeister's edition (now out of print) of Bentley's Horace 

 contains an index which is virtually a concordance, but the typographical arrange- 

 ment is so bad and the progress of studies in the text of Horace since 1869 has 

 been so great, that, were his index more accessible, there would still be room for a 

 new work. The present concordance was undertaken in view of difficulties actually 

 experienced, with various indexes, in the comparison of English poets with Horace. 

 No. 208. BROUGHTON, L. N., M. R. THAYER, and others. A Concordance to thg 



Poems of Keats. Quarto, xxi+437 pages, 1 plate. Published 1917. 



Price $7.00. 



This work contains an alphabetical list of the words in the poems of John 

 Keats. Under each word, except for a very small list of unimportant words, is 

 quoted every metrical line in which the word occurs, approximately 65,000 quota- 

 tions in all. The basic text is that of H. Buxton Forman, C. B. (Oxford Univer- 

 sity Press). The recording was done from the issue of 1910; but has been care- 

 fully collated with the issue of 1914, which contains five newly discovered poems. 

 The page numbers given in the concordance correspond to those of the later issue, 

 but for the convenience of those using the earlier text a table in the introduction 



