CHAUCER.* 



WILL it do to say anything more about Chaucer 1 

 Can any one hope to say anything, not new, but 

 even fresh, on a topic so well worn % It may well be 

 doubted ; and yet one is always the better for a walk in 

 the morning air, — a medicine which may be taken oyer 

 and over again without any sense of sameness, or any 

 failure of its invigorating quality. There is a pervading 

 wholesomeness in the writings of this man, — a vernal 

 property that soothes and refreshes in a way of which no 

 other has ever found the secret. I repeat to myself a 

 thousand- times, — 



" Whan that Aprile with his showres sote 

 The droughte of JIarch hath perced to the rote, 

 And bathed every veine in swich licour 

 Of which vertue engendered is the flour, — ' 

 When Zephynis eek with his swete breth 

 Enspiriid hath in every holt and heth 

 The tender croppes, and the yonge sonne 

 Hath in the ram his halfe cors yronne, 

 And smale foules maken melodie," — 



and still at the thousandth time a breath of uncontami- 



* Publlcaiions of the Chaucer Society. London. 1869-70. 



Etude sztr G. Chaucer consvUre comme imitateur des Trouveres. Par 

 E. G. Sandras, A?i-eg(5 de I'Universite. Paris: Augxiste Dusand. 

 1859. 8vo. pp. 298. 



Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury- GescMchten, ueberseizt in den Vers- 

 massen der Urschrifl, und dtirch Einleitung und Anmerhungen erlautert. 

 Vnn WiLHEi.M Hertzberg. Hildbiirirhnuson. 1866. r2mo. pp.674. 



Chaucer in Seinen Beziehungen zur ilalienischen Literatur. Inaugu- 

 ral-Dissertatio7t zur Erlangung der Bociorwiirde. Von Alfons Kiss- 

 NER. Bonn. 1867. 8vo pp. 81. 



