APPENDIX I. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, HELD AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, N. Y., DECEMBER 27, 28, 29, 1899. THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. The seventeenth annual meeting of the MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA was held at Columbia University, New York, N. Y., December 27, 28, 29, 1899. All the sessions of the meeting were held in Schermerhorn Hall, Room 305. FIRST SESSION, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27. President Seth Low, at whose invitation the Association met at Columbia University, opened the session by an address of welcome. The Secretary of the Association, James W. Bright, submitted as his report the fourteenth volume of the Publications of the Association. This volume is dedicated to the memory of Mr. David Lewis Bartlett, of Baltimore, in recognition of his contribution of five hundred dollars to the cost of publishing the volume, and of his interest from the beginning in the work of the Association. On motion of the Secretary the Association passed a vote to put upon record a unanimous expression of deep regret at the recent death of Mr. David Lewis Bartlett. The Treasurer of the Association, Herbert E. Greene, submitted the following report: |