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Die Englische Sprache. Ihre Geschichtliche Entwicklung. Von Karl Brunner. Erster Band. Halle (Saale): Max Niemeyer Verlag. XIX, 352 pp. 1950. DM 12.— (geb. 13.80,. — Zweiter Band. Idem, 1951. 424 pp. DM 13.— (geb. 14.80).Parataxis and Hypotaxis as a Criterion of Syntax and Style, especially in Old English Poetry. By Alarik Rynell. (Lunds Universitets Årsskrift. N.F. Avd. 1. Bd 48. Nr 3.) Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup. 1952. 60 pp. Kr. 6:—.Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries. Edited by R. H. Robbins. Oxford: Clarendon Press (London: Geoffrey Cumberlege). 1952. lv + 331 pp. 18/—.Geschichte des englischen Theaters. By Rudolf Stamm. Bern: A. Francke. 1951. 483 pp. Gb. S.fr. 28.80; Br. S.fr. 24.50.The English Stage 1850-1950. By Lynton Hudson. London: Harrap. 1951. 223 pp. 10/6 net.Hamlet's Father. By Richard Flatter. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949. viii + 207 pp.Tout est bien qui finit bien. Traduction de C. Cambillard. (Collection Shakespeare, Texte et Traduction, Publiee sous la direction de A. Koszul.) XXV + 232 pp. Paris: Societe des Belles-Lettres. 1952.Studi sulla poesia populare d'Inghilterra e di Scozia. Di Sergio Baldi. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letterature. 1949. 179 pp. [No price given.]The Ballad of Sir Aldingar. Its Origin and Analogues. By Paul Christophersen. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. 1952. ix + 258 pp. 30s. net.Die Englische Sprache. Ihre Geschichtliche Entwicklung. Von Karl Brunner. Erster Band. Halle (Saale): Max Niemeyer Verlag. 1950. XIX, 352 pp. DM 12.— (geb. 13.80). Zweiter Band. Idem, 1951. 424 pp. DM. 13.— (geb. 14.80).Piers Plowman and Scriptural Tradition. By D. W. Robertson, Jr. and B. F. Huppe. (Princeton Studies in English, No. 31). Princeton University Press, 1951. xiv + 259 pp. Price $ 4.00.Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century. By H. S. Bennett. Oxford History of English Literature. Edited by F. P. Wilson and Bonamy Dobree. Oxford. At the Clarendon Press. 1947.Character and Motive in Shakespeare. Some recent appraisals examined. By J. I. M. Stewart. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1949. vii + 147 pp. Price 10/6 net.The Plays of Nathan Field. Edited from the Original Quartos with Introductions and Notes by William Peery. The University of Texas Press, Austin, 1950. xiii + 346 pp. $ 3.75.Aldous Huxley: Entwicklung seiner Metaphysik. Von Suzanne Heintz-Friedrich. Bern: A. Francke A.G. Verlag. 1949. 127 pp. S.Fr. 13.20.Hemingway: The Writer as Artist. By Carlos Baker. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1952. 322 pp. $4.50.A Dictionary of New Words in English. By Paul C. Berg. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1953. 176 pp. Price 12s. 6d.A Word Geography of the Eastern United States. By Hans Kurath. University of Michigan Press. 1949. x + 88 pp. + 164 full-page maps. $ 4.—.An Introduction to a Survey of Scottish Dialects. By Angus Mcintosh. University of Edinburgh Linguistic Survey of Scotland Monographs No. 1. Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. Edinburgh. 1952. xii + 122 pp. 7s. 6d.A Questionnaire for a Linguistic Atlas of England. By Eugen Dieth and Harold Orton. Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, Literary and Historical Section, Vol. VI Part IX. Leeds 1952. 605-700. 12s. 6d.The Mirror of Love, a Reinterpretation of 'The Romance of the Rose'. By Alan M. F. Gunn. Texas Tech Press, Lubbock, Texas, 1952. xvi + 592 pp. Price $ 5.25.Agnus Castus: A Middle English Herbal Reconstructed from Various Manuscripts, ed. Gosta Brodin. Upsala, 1950. 329 pp.English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages. By E. K. Chambers. Oxford History of English Literature. Edited by F. P. Wilson and Bonamy Dobree. Oxford. At the Clarendon Press. 1947. 247 pp. 15s. net.Christopher Marlowe. By Michel Poirier. Chatto & Windus, London. 1951. 216 pp. 10/6 net.The Augustan Age. By John Butt. London: Hutchinson's University Library. 1950. viii + 152 pp. 7/6.The Place-Names of Cumberland. By A. M. Armstrong, A. Mawer, F. M. Stenton and Bruce Dickins. Part III. Introduction etc. (English Place-Name Society, vol. XXII). Cambridge University Press 1952. 18s.The Dialect and Provenance of the Middle English Poem The Owl and the Nightingale. A Linguistic Study. By Bertil Sundby. (Lund Studies in English, XVIII; Professor Olof Arngart Editor). C. W. K. Gleerup, Lund, 1950. 218 pp. Swedish Crowns 12:—.Two Early London Subsidy Rolls. Edited with an intoduction, commentaries, and indices of taxpayers, by Eilert Ekwall. Lund, 1951. xiii + 402 pp. Price Kr. 40.Studies on the Accentuation of Polysyllabic Latin, Greek, and Romance Loan-Words in English with special reference to those ending in -able, -ate, -ator, -ible, -ic, -ical and -ize. By Bror Danielsson. (Stockholm Studies in English, III.) Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell; Oxford: Blackwell; New York: Stechert-Hafner. 1948. xvi + 644 pp. Price Kr. 20.—The Twelfth Night of Shakespeare's Audience. By John W. Draper. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California. London, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press. No date (1950). xiii + 280 pp. $ 5.00.Shakespeare's 'King Lear', edited by George Ian Duthie. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1949. 425 pp. 25/— net.The Honest mans Fortune, a Critical Edition of MS Dyce 9 (1625). By J. Gerritsen. (Groningen Studies in English, 3. Editor: R. W. Zandvoort.) cxi + 188 pp. Groningen, J. B. Wolters. 1952. Gld. 12.90.Longfellow's 'Golden Legend' and Goethe's 'Faust'. By Carl Hammer Jr. (Louisiana State University Studies Nr 2.) Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge. 1952. 36 pp. Price $0.50.The Savages of America. A Study of the Indian and the Idea of Civilization. By Roy Harvey Pearce. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1953. Pp. 252. $4.00.Unpublished London Dissertations on Medieval EnglishA. C. Cawley, A Study of the Language of the Various Texts of Tcevisa's Translation of Higden's Polychronicon. M.A., University College, 1938, 260 pp.A. B. Lewis, Descriptions of the Devil and his Works in Early English Literature and the Relation of these Ideas to Doctrine. Ph. D., University College, 1939, 446 pp.S. Ganguli, A Study of Chaucer's Diction and Terms for Womanly Beauty. Ph. D., University College and King's College, 1940, 529 pp.G. T. Shepherd, Aspects of the Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Thirteenth Century English Lyric Poetry. M.A., King's College, 1948, 246 pp.G. C. Thornley, Studies in the Versification of the Old-English MS Junius 11, An Investigation into the Use and Function of the Accents and A Consideration of the Poetical Rhythms and Their Relation to Sense and Style. Ph. D., Exeter College, 1952, 514 pp.R. Quirk, The Concessive Relation and Its Expression in OE. with Special Reference to the Poetic Material. Ph.D., University College 1951, 310 pp.Reflexive und intransitive Verba im alteren Westgermanischen. By Lars Hermodsson. Uppsala, 1952. 347 pp.The Structure of English. An Introduction to the Construction of English Sentences. By Charles Carpenter Fries. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1952. ix + 304 pp. $ 4.00.