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above points of view. Many important questions have not yet been 

 settled, such as, why references to fairy tales are so infrequent, etc. 

 Enough has been said, however, to show the general interest and 

 importance of the subject, and it is to be hoped that American 

 scholars may find in it an additional field for their labor.^^ 



. Ithaca, N. Y., 

 March, 1917. 



^9 A good illustration of the value of the Sermon-Books for general med- 

 iaeval history may be found in the admirable article by Professor Charles H. 

 Haskins of Harvard University on " The TJniversity of Paris in the Sermons 

 of the Thirteenth Century" in The American Historical Review, vol. X 

 (1905), pp. 1-27. In the course of his paper Professor Haskins calls atten- 

 tion to the interesting fact that Harvard University Library possesses a 

 manuscript of Jacques de Vitry's Sermoncs vulgares which was once the 

 property of the monastery of St. Jacques at Liege (MS. Riant 35). 



