7 MARCH 1903, Page 27

Chaueer's Indebtedness to Guido dells Colonne. By George L. Hamilton,

MA. (Columbia University Press, New York. 5s. net.) —This volume is the outcome of the system of post-graduation study which is so well developed in the United States, and so lamentably small in our own country. Mr. Hamilton's subject is the indebtedness of Chaucer to earlier writers in the writing of "Troilus and Criseyde," a subject complicated by the statements of the poet on the subject. It has been followed up in this essay with an industry worthy of all praise.