Among valuable contributions to the study of English literature we
can only mention Mrs. C. C. Stopes's collection of Tapers on Shakespeare's Environment (G. Bell and Sons, 7s. 6d. met), embodying many results of original research ; a scholarly recension of Wyatt's Beowulf, by R. W. Chambers (Cam- bridge University Press, 9s. net); a well-chosen anthology of The French Romanticists, by H. F. Stewart and Arthur Tilley (same publishers, 4s. net); the fifth volume of Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association, collected by Professor 0. Elton (Clarendon Press, be. net), and including a suggestive paper by Mr. D. S. MacColl on " Rhythm in English Verse, Prose and Speech"; an exhaustive monograph on Francis Beaumont, by Professor C. M. Gayley, of the Univer- sity of California (Duckworth and Co., 7s. 6d. net), which aims at proving that Beaumont was "the twin of heavenlier birth" in the famous collaboration; a genial volume of .Essays on Books, by Professor William Lyon Phelps, of Yale University (Macmillan and Co., 6s. 6d. net); a helpful volume .of Essays on Milton, by Professor Elbert N. S. Thompson, of the State University of Iowa (Humphrey Milford, for the Yale University Press, 6s. net); and Biblical Libraries, an interesting sketch of library history from 3400 B.C. to A.D. 150, by E. C. Cushing (Humphrey Milford, for the Princeton University Press, $1.25 net).
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