ENGLISH STUDIES

VOLUME VI

1925

Edited for

The English Association

BY

F. S. BOAS

and

C. H. HERFORD

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD

1927

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PREFACE

WHEN in the Preface to Volume V of The Year's Work the Editors expressed their regret that for the first time the Association's Annual appeared without the name of Sir Sidney Lee as an editor or a contributor, they did not anticipate that his death was so near at hand. It has fallen to Sir E. K. Chambers, who has now undertaken the Shakespeare section of this survey, to give expression to the sense of loss felt by scholars everywhere.

In almost every section covered by The Year's Work 1925 was a period of great activity, and for the first time the survey has had to include the important contributions in the new Review of English Studies. The editors of academic journals, especially in the United States, who forward them immediately on publication, do much to facilitate the work.

As usual, the Editors are indebted to officials of the Oxford University Press for the Index and for the compilation of statistics which show that in this volume 626 publications are noticed, of which 309 are books and 317 are articles.

F. S. B.

C. H. H.

Mod. Phil.

N. and Q.
O.U.P.

ABBREVIATIONS

Cambridge History of English Literature.
Cambridge University Press.

Early English Text Society.

Journal of English and Germanic Philology.
Modern Language Notes.

= Modern Language Review.

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Modern Philology.

Notes and Queries.

= Oxford University Press.

= Publications of the Modern Language Association

P.M.L.A.

P.Q. R.E.S. R.S.L.

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S. in Ph.

T.L.S.

=

=

of America.

Philological Quarterly.
Review of English Studies.
Royal Society of Literature.
Studies in Philology.

= Times Literary Supplement.

CONTENTS

L. LITERARY HISTORY AND CRITICISM.

GENERAL WORKS.

By C. H. HERFORD, D.Litt., F.B.A., Honorary
Professor of English Literature in the Uni-
versity of Manchester.

II. PHILOLOGY. GENERAL WORKS

By J. R. R. TOLKIEN, M.A., Rawlinson and

Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the

University of Oxford.

III. OLD ENGLISH STUDIES.

By E. V. GORDON, M.A., Professor of English

Language and Literature in the University of

Leeds.

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By DOROTHY EVERETT, M.A., Tutor of Lady

Margaret Hall, Oxford.

V. THE RENAISSANCE.

By ARTHUR W. REED, D.Litt., F.R.S.L., Reader

in English Language and Literature in the

University of London.

By Sir E. K. CHAMBERS, D.Litt., F.B.A. With

an addition by C. H. HERFORD.

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