The late Murray Anthony Potter, at the time of his 

 sudden death, was amassing notes for three books which 

 he had long contemplated: a treatise on the horse as a 

 character in epic poetry; a study of Petrarch; a group 

 of essays on the Renaissance. For these, and for his 

 various University courses, he left an abundance of 

 matter in the form of references, memoranda, detached 

 paragraphs, and outhnes of lectures, but very little in 

 the way of finished composition. The best that could 

 be done with most of his papers was, therefore, to de- 

 posit them in the Harvard Library, for the use of investi- 

 gators in the same fields. Some pages, however, seemed 

 to lend themselves, without too great departure from 

 the writer's intention, to an arrangement which would 

 make them accessible to the reading public. Hence this 

 little volume, prepared by a few colleagues of the author 

 and offered by his Department, in token of friendship 

 and gratitude. 



Cambridge, Mass. 

 July I, 191 7. 



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