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Page 5 - de l'homme in its two versions, Deguilleville wrote a second, "de l'âme séparée du corps," and a third, "de nostre seigneur lesus." Of the second, a prose Englishing of 1413, The Pilgrimage of the Sowie (with poems by Hoccleve, already printed for the Society with that author's
Page 2 - Chaucer, and Shakspere, who care two guineas a year for the records of that speech. ' Let the dead; past bury its dead ' is still the cry of Great Britain and
Page 5 - Members of the Society will learn with pleasure that its example has been followed, not only by the Old French Text Society which has done such admirable work under its founders Profs. Paul Meyer and Gaston Paris, but also by the Early Russian Text Society, which was set on foot in 1877, and has since issued many excellent editions of old MS. Chronicles, &c.
Page 8 - Sir Tristrem, from the unique Auchinleck MS., edited by George F. Black. John of Arderne's Surgery, c. 1425, ed. JF Payne, MD De Guilleville's Pilgrimage of the Sowie, edited by Prof. Dr. Leon Kellner. Vicary's Anatomie, 1548, from the unique MS. copy by George Jeans, edited by FJ & Percy Furnivall. Vicary's Anatomie, 1548, ed. 1577, edited by FJ
Page 3 - These Extra-Series Texts ought to be completed by their Editors : the Second Part of the prose Romance of Melusine—Introduction, with ten facsimiles of the best woodblocks of the old foreign black-letter editions, Glossary, &c., by AK Donald, BA (now in India)
Page 4 - Sons, Part II, the Introduction &c. by Prof. Dr. Leon Kellner ; Part II of The Chester Plays, re-edited from the MSS., with a full collation of the formerly missing Devonshire MS., by Mr. G. England and Dr. Matthews ; the Parallel-Text of the only two MSS. of the Owl and Nightingale, edited by Mr. GFH Sykes (at press)
Page 4 - de l'Homme, AD 1355 or -6, was englisht in verse by Lydgate in 1426. Of Lydgate's poem, the larger part is in the Cotton MS. Vitellius C. xiii (leaves 2-308). This MS. leaves out Chaucer's englishing of Deguilleville's
Page 8 - Oaxton's Book of the Ordre of Chyualry, collated with Loutfut's Scotch copy. (Editor wanted.) Lydgate's Court of Sapience, edited by Dr. Borsdorf. Lydgate's Lyfe of oure Lady, ed. by Prof. Georg Fiedler, Ph.D. Lydgate's Dance of Death, edited by Miss Florence Warren. Lydgate's Life of St. Edmund, edited from the MSS. by Dr. Axel
Page 8 - Early Lyrical Poems from the Harl. MS. 2253, re-edited by Prof. Hall Griffin, MA Alliterative Prophecies, edited from the MSS. by Prof. Brand!, Ph. D. miscellaneous Alliterative Poems, edited from the MSS. by Dr. L. Morsbach. Bird and Beast Poems, a collection from MSS., edited by Dr. KD Buelbring. Scire Mori,
Page 2 - years of the Society's existence, it has produced, with whatever shortcomings, an amount of good solid work for which all students of our Language, and some