sentation. A thorough understanding of their achievement requires a careful study, not only of Corneille, the most important of these dramatists, but also of the lesser writers, who often showed the way to their illustrious contemporary. The present volume studies exhaustively the life and plays of Du Ryer, who, after Corneille, was in many ways the leading member of the group. Du Ryer's translations and lyric poems are treated in their relation to his life and dramatic work. The book contains an index, and is illustrated by vignettes and a plate reproduced from an early edition of Du Ryer's tragedy "Saul."

No. 189. OSGOOD, CHARLES G. A Concordance to the Poems of Spenser. Quarto, XIII+997 pages, 1 plate. Published 1915. Price $20.00.

This book is an alphabetical list of all the words in the English poems of Edmund Spenser. Under each word are quoted all the passages in which the word occurs, except that for a few very frequent and unimportant words only a selected list of quotations is given. The context of the word in each quotation is selected so as to show, as far as space allows, the meaning and use of the word. The whole work contains nearly 200,000 quotations. It is based upon the text of Richard Morris, revised and corrected by editions which have appeared since the concordance was begun. Spenser is usually ranked fourth among English poets, and his place in the history both of the English language and of English poetry is peculiarly important. The object of the concordance is not only to illuminate the poet's meaning and art in the use of words, but to afford aid to the historical study of the language and literature similar to that to be derived from concordances to the Bible, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, and other English poets.

No. 202. COOPER, LANE. A Concordance to the Works of Horace. Octavo, x+593. Published 1916. Price $7.00.

This strictly analytical work records, in alphabetical order, every occurrence of every word in Horace, and all the variant readings included in two standard modern editions of the poet. Under each word is quoted every passage in which the word occurs, with a numerical reference to poem and line; save that in the case of a few particles, no quotations, but numerical references alone are given. The basic text is that of Friedrich Vollmer (Leipsic, Teubner, 1912); his list of variants has been supplemented by the inclusion of a few readings noted in the edition of Wickham (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903-1904). The arranging of related grammatical forms under one heading has not been attempted; but homographs-for example, datives and ablatives ending in o-have been carefully separated. No effort has been spared to make the book typographically clear and easy to consult.

The thought and language of Horace have exerted a profound and widespread influence upon subsequent poets, English as well as Continental. In common with other Latin authors, his works have in times past been indexed; but of the previous verbal indexes still in print there is none that duly performs the functions of a concordance or adequately serves the purposes of the students of modern as well as ancient literature. Zangemeister's edition (now out of print) of Bentley's Horace contains an index which is virtually a concordance, but the typographical arrangement is so bad and the progress of studies in the text of Horace since 1869 has been so great, that, were his index more accessible, there would still be room for a new work. The present concordance was undertaken in view of difficulties actually experienced, with various indexes, in the comparison of English poets with Horace. No. 208. BROUGHTON, L. N., M. R. THAYER, and others. A Concordance to the Poems of Keats. Quarto, xxI+437 pages, 1 plate. Published 1917. Price $7.00.

This work contains an alphabetical list of the words in the poems of John Keats. Under each word, except for a very small list of unimportant words, is quoted every metrical line in which the word occurs, approximately 65,000 quotations in all. The basic text is that of H. Buxton Forman, C. B. (Oxford University Press). The recording was done from the issue of 1910; but has been carefully collated with the issue of 1914, which contains five newly discovered poems. The page numbers given in the concordance correspond to those of the later issue, but for the convenience of those using the earlier text a table in the introduction

carefully and completely records the relatively small number of changes in pagination. The text is supplemented by the variant of La Belle Dame sans Merci from Lord Houghton's Life and Letters of Keats.

No. 262. BERGEN, HENRY. The Fall of Princes, by John Lydgate. Edited from the best Manuscripts, with Bibliographical Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. Octavo. In press.

The Fall of Princes, Lydgate's longest and best-known work, is a translation in decasyllabic verse, arranged in upwards of 5,000 seven and eight line stanzas, of the prose Latin "De Casibus Virorum et Feminarum Illustrium libri IX," written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the third quarter of the fourteenth century. The English poem was not done directly out of the original Latin, but is an expanded rendering of Laurence de Premierfait's second prose French version (completed in 1409), which was in turn a greatly amplified revision of an earlier and more literal translation by the same writer.

The work, like Chaucer's "Monk's Tale," consists of a series of tragedies told in the words of the chief actors, who appeared one after another before the author, "beginning at Adam” and “ending at King John" of France, who was taken prisoner by the Black Prince at Poitiers in 1356. Boccaccio's object was to exhibit to his crowned contemporaries and their successors the evil results of vicious living and misrule, by examples chosen from the Old Testament and the popular historical compilations of his time, as an incentive for them to mend their ways; and the work became one of the most popular books of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. By reason of its large vocabulary, which is especially rich in words borrowed from the French, it holds an important position in the history of the English language.

Some twenty-nine more or less complete manuscripts of the Fall of Princes have been preserved, and there are four printed editions (Richard Pynson, 1494 and 1527, Richard Tottel, 1554, and John Wayland, about 1558). The present edition is based on the Oxford manuscript Bodley 263, collated in full with the British Museum manuscripts Royal 18 Div. and Harley 1245. Other manuscripts and the printed edition of 1554 have been consulted in regard to doubtful points.

No. 169. CALLAWAY, MORGAN, JR. The Infinitive in Anglo-Saxon. Octavo, XIII+ Published 1913. Price $5.00.

339 pages.

In this work Professor Callaway gives a detailed history of the Infinitive in Anglo-Saxon and treats of some substitutes therefor. The study is based upon a statistical reading of the whole of Anglo-Saxon literature with the exception of the glosses and of a few out-of-prints; moreover, in all of the more definitely known translations, the Latin originals have been read. The statistics are given clearly and are complete except for the predicative infinitive with auxiliary verbs, the full tabulation of which seemed unnecessary. Fifteen chapters of interpretation are based upon this material. A long chapter is added on "The Infinitive in the Other Germanic Languages," which of necessity rests upon the investigations of others, but which will, it is believed, be found something more than a summary. The bibliography makes no pretensions to exhaustiveness, but is fuller than any hitherto published in this field. It is thought that the monograph will appeal to students of Germanic syntax scarcely less than to students of English syntax, for the work is written throughout from the comparative standpoint.

No. 134. CHURCHILL, WILLIAM. The Polynesian Wanderings. Tracks of the Migration deduced from an Examination of the Proto-Samoan Content of Efaté and other Languages of Melanesia. Octavo, VIII+516 pages, 2 plates. Published 1911. Price $3.50.

Two theories of the origin of the brown Polynesian race of the Pacific are here discussed, the Semitic and the Malayan theories respectively. It has been essayed to dispose of these definitely by the methods of comparative philology. To that end the author has amassed all available data from all the Polynesian languages and from 150 used in Melanesia and 50 Indonesian tongues; he has discussed their phonetic mutations and therefrom has pronounced against each of these theories. Dealing with the Polynesians as a pre-Malayan population of Indonesia, he shows that the race advanced upon the Pacific in two swarms separated by a wide interval of time. Confining his investigation to the earlier swarm, at or about the beginning of the present era, he outlines two streams of migration parted at the outset by the obstacle of New Guinea and not brought into association until their arrival in Nuclear Polynesia. As a contribution to the philology of the isolated tongues it is indicated that these studies set us at a point of examination but narrowly removed from the genesis of one of the languages of human speech. No. 154. CHURCHILL, WILLIAM. Beach-la-mar: The Jargon or Trade Speech of the Western Pacific. Octavo, 54 pages. Published 1911. Price $0.50. This work is directed toward two ends. The preservation of the vocabulary is expected to afford material for those students who may be attracted to the prosecution of research upon jargons as underlying the artificial languages in general, a theme as yet untouched in philological examination. The discussion of the grammar of this crude means of communication has a value of its own as a preliminary step in the consideration of the grammar of isolating speech, a study essential to the establishment of the newer philology based upon the most primordial stage of the evolution of human speech.

No. 174. CHURCHILL, WILLIAM. Easter Island, Rapanui Speech, and the Peopling of Southeast Polynesia. Octavo, 340 pages. Published 1912. Price $2.75. Herein have been assembled the word-lists of all former students of Easter Island, the French vocabulary compiled by Père Hippolyte Roussel, the words recorded by Geiseler, Thomson, and Cook, together with the author's own collections. To this material has been added the necessary philological apparatus wherewith to make this the first dictionary of the speech of this remote outlier of the Polynesian race. Prefaced to the dictionary is a discussion of the various languages of southeastern Polynesia, namely, those of Tahiti, the Marquesas, the Paumotu, and Mangareva. This material has been employed to dissociate the several streams of Polynesian migration which have moved eastward from Samoa under the heliotropic impulse which has ever been active in this great movement of folk migration.

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In these studies it has been possible to dissect out earlier and later migrations and to a satisfactory extent to translate into terms of geography the results of philological comparison.

No. 184. FINLEY, J. P., and WILLIAM CHURCHILL. The Subanu: Studies of a SubVisayan Mountain Folk of Mindanao. Octavo, iv+236 pages, 2 plates. Published 1913. Price $2.00.

In Part I of this work Colonel John Park Finley, U. S. Army, has furnished a record of the present stage of this mountain tribe of Mindanao, a race hitherto practically untouched by even such culture as the Moros of the coast possess. Since St. Francis Xavier gave them up in despair they have remained in unmixed savagery until now they are being brought within the civilizing efforts of American endeavor. This record is as complete as could be obtained by ten years of administrative contact with this shy and rude folk. In collating the linguistic material collected in the intervals of campaigns by the military author, Mr. Churchill has established the ethnic position of the race as archetypal in reference to the more widely extended Visayan culture. This theme leads naturally to a careful discussion of the Malayo-Polynesian speech family and the employment of this important collection of new data to accomplish its demolition, thus clearing the way for a free study of the respective language units which hitherto have been obscured by an untenable association.

No. 244. CHURCHILL, WILLIAM. Sissano: Movements of Migration within and through Melanesia. Octavo, 181 pp., 17 charts. Pub. 1916. Price $2.00. Newly available material derived from the Sissano, a people on the Aróp lagoons on the north coast of New Guinea, has been utilized in this work for the study of one of the more intricate problems of the track of Polynesia migration out of Indonesia. Objection has been raised against the suggestion that two migration tracks were discernible in reference to New Guinea as in part obstacle and in part conduit of folk movement. These tracks have been traced along the north coast of the island and along the south coast through Torres Strait. It has been suggested that the traces of Polynesian speech found in the Gulf of Papua have reached that area by coastwise voyaging from the north coast to the southeast peninsula and thence westward. By the employment of the speech material from Sissano for the explication of the similar material found in the Torres Strait tract it is established that all the evidence at present available indicates the probability of the folk movement eastward from the Arafura Sea through Torres Strait independently of the movement along the north coast.

No. 253. IVENS, WALTER G. Dictionary and Grammar of the Language of Sa'a and Ulawa, Solomon Islands. With appendices. VII+249 pp., 12 plates. 1 fig. Published 1918. Price $3.00.

This dictionary of a language in use in the southern region of the Solomon Islands is a distinct contribution to the little-studied philology of the Western Pacific and fills a serious gap which has existed in the investigation of the languages of Melanesia. The nearest languages which have received dictionary record are Mota in the New Hebrides far to the south and Pala in New Ireland equally distant to the north. Evidences of certain common elements which are discoverable in the speech of Ulawa indicate that this work will prove of value in the examination of the movement of population through the island chains of this region of the Pacific. In addition to the vocabulary material the author has supplied copious information as to the life of the people of Ulawa and of the adjacent region on the southern cape of the large island of Malaita and has given a statement of the beginning and progress of the work of Christian missions among these savages.

No. 17. DORSEY, GEORGE A. Traditions of the Arikara. Octavo, 202 pages. Published 1904. Price $1.00.

A collection of eighty-two folk tales of the Arikara Indians of North Dakota, a tribe of the Caddoan stock, most nearly related to the Skidi Pawnee. The tales are arranged in groups as follows: Creation Myths; Transformation Myths; Rite Myths; Miscellaneous; Animal Tales; Traditions embodying superstitions or strange beliefs and wild tales. There is an introduction, and abstracts of each tale are given. No. 21. DORSEY, GEORGE A. Mythology of the Wichita. Octavo, vIII+351 pages. Published 1904. Price $1.50.

A collection of sixty tales of the Wichita tribe of the Caddoan stock, living in Oklahoma. The tales are arranged according to certain Wichita cosmogonic conceptions, namely, Creation, Transformation, and Present. Several of the tales are represented by one or more variants. An introduction gives a general account of Wichita ethnology. The tales are all provided with abstracts.

No. 41. DORSEY, GEORGE A. Traditions of the Caddo. Octavo, 136 pages. Published 1905. Price $0.50.

The Caddo tales presented in the above publication were collected during the years 1903-1905 and form part of a systematic investigation of the religious system and ceremonial organization of the tribes of the Caddoan stock. The Caddo since 1859 have lived in western Oklahoma, between the Washita and Canadian rivers, where they have been closely associated with the Wichita. They retain practically nothing of their ancient culture. Their early home was in Louisiana, on the lower Red River. Later they migrated toward the Texas border, and still later to Brazas River in Texas. Like the Wichita, their early habitations were conical grass lodges, and they were agriculturists, hunting the buffalo only within comparatively recent times.

No. 59. DORSEY, GEORGE A. The Pawnee: Mythology (Part I). Octavo, 546 pages. Published 1906. Price $2.00.

A collection of 148 tales of the Pawnee, representing the Chaui, Kitkehahki, Skidi, and Pitahauirat, which constitute the four bands of the Pawnee who to-day live in Oklahoma. This volume forms a supplement to Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee, Volume III of the Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society. The tales are grouped according to the Pawnee conception of tales: True Stories of the Heavenly Beings; Tales of Ready-to-Give; The Origin of Medicine Ceremonies or Power; Coyote Tales. A brief introduction relates the method of obtaining the material and all the tales are furnished with abstracts. Many of the tales contain one or more songs.

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