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Todd, Henry Alfred

Weeks, Raymond

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NOTES AND NEWSBot/t of t/M C<fttOM-K-C/iMjfof this ~CM~tf 0~ advocatesOjf the tnovementfor the ~'Mt~K~CC~'OM of Englislt spelling. ?'?:? appropriateK'M~, COM&'t'6tt<0~may feel ~M to follow their M!fh'M'f.ftt[!~~f~t'~CtMM~ in the matter.We are often aski for the adress at Paris of a skilful paleografist whoseterms for copying and collation are entiretyt'eajsonabïe. We take pteasure in com-mendingwithout reserve M. Louis Engerand, archiviste-paléografeat the BiMiQ-thèque Nationale, Paris. If any of our readers can give similar adresses atLondon, Florence, Venice, Madrid, etc., they are requested to communicate théinformation to some one of the editors of this .R.M"K'.The annual LtM'~t de Mtt«~MM< of the University of Paris is now in cir-culation, and may be ordered at the Bureau des Renseignements à la Sorbonne.Needless to state, this c~tatog is of great interest.Professor K. Pietsch, of the University of Chicago, has been made Profes-sor of Romance Filology. Mr. E. B. Babcock, of thé same university, bas beenpromoted to an assistant professorship in Romance languages.John P. Rice, A.B., Ph.D., of Yale University, bas been appointed Instructorth Romance languages at Williams College.Mr. S. G. Morley, Ph.D., of Hasard University, igo2, has been chosenActing-Professor of Romance languages at Colorado College, during the absenceof Professor Hills.Mr. F. A. Waterhouse, A.B., of Harvard, loog, A.M., igo6, until this yeargraduat student at Harvard, has been made Instructor in Romance languagesat Dartmouth Coltege. Mr. C. Goggio, also a graduat student at Harvard, hssgone to Dartmouth to occupy a similar position. Another Harvard graduâtstudent in Romance, Mr. S. M. Waxman, has been named Instructor at BostonUniversity. Mr. Waxman was Instructor in Romance languages at SyracuseUniversity in 1907-08.The production in English of Gold&ni's Ventaglio is announst for Decem-ber and January, by the Yale Dramatic Association. A translation of the play,which is publisht by the Association, has been specially made for this produc-tion by Professor Kenneth McKenzie.Dr. George D. Davidson, formerly Instructor in Romance languages at théUniversity of Michigan, has accepted a similar position at Vanderbilt University.Mr. James Young, of WilHams Collège, has been elected to an instructor-ship in Romance languages 'at Miami University.Mr. Russell P. Jameson, of Oberlin, has been made Associat Professor ofRomance languages. Since 1908, he has been completing his studies for thedoctorat at the University of Paris.Mr. Donald M. Gilbert, Wesleyan University, ïoo8, has been appointed In-structor in Romance languages at Northwestern.Mr. John Hill, last year Fellow in Romance languages at Vanderbilt, hasaccep,ted a position in the department at the University of Wisconsin.f Jaymedegu~e.G'Htfïby TtbÏMsar I~Suph:et ~as~,5~ ~?'/~'uo:Mr. Gaetano Cavicchia, who bas recently returnd from a year's study inFrance, has been made Instructor in Italian and French at the University ofMissouri.Professor E. K. Rand and Dr. E. H. Wilkins, of Harvard, have finisht thépreparation of the Concordance to the Latin Works of Dante, the third and con-cluding volume in the series of Dante Concordances issued by the AmericanDante Society. The book is being printed by the Oxford Press. ProfessorRand will pass the year 1912-13 as professor at .thé American School ôf Classi-cal Studies at Rome.Mr. John R. Fisher, formerly Instructor in Romance languages at Vander-bilt, and for the last year a student at Paris, has succeeded Professor D. B.Easter as Professor of Modern Languages at Randolph-Macon College,Virginia. nMr. J. L. Borgerhoff, of Western Reserve University, has been made Pro-fessor of Romance languages at that institution.The Corporationof HarvardUniversity has received $20,000 from the Dukeand Duchess de Arcos in memory of Woodbury Lowery. The fund is to beheld in perpetuity, the income to be awarded from year to year t& some person,preferably an instructor or graduat of Harvard, to enable him to carry onresearch in historical archives, preferably those relating to American historyin the archives of forein countries and more particularly in Spain.Inquiry has reacht the editors of this Review as to the critical edition ofthe PM~K~o of Chrétien de Troies. Here is the title and description of thework: .PMoMOM, Conte ~MM~ d'après Ovide, par Chrétien de Troies, par C.de Boer, Paris, P. Geuthner, 1909. Price unbound, 10 francs.According to the statistics for 1909, there were that year, in New Englandschools, 21,000 pupils studying French; 18,000 studying Latin; 10,000 studyingGerman; 1,000 studying Greek.Students of Old French literature will be interested in Professor GustavBrockstedt's ~ûM inittelhochdeutschenVolksepen franzosischen Ursprungs, ofwhich the first part has just appeard at Kiel. In this work, Prof. B. showsthat the well-known Middle High German Eckenlied, Virginal, GM~MM., etc., areof French origin. In a preceding work entitld D~ oH/MMc~M Siegfridlied(1908), Prof. B. pointed out the French origin of the 6't~H~~ the Nibe-h~fMM, etc. These works will be reviewd later.Ail who feel an interest in modern language instruction in America will readwith profit a recent pamflet by Professor Paul Shorey, of Chicago University.Professor Shorey believs that the ancient and the modern languages are mthe same boat" in this country, and that they are menaced by the same dangers.Dodd, Mead & Co. have just publisht a Dictionary of Hard H~on~, pp.646, priée $1.20 net. The compiler is Robert Morris Pierce, whose lexicograficalwork is well known. The preface contains valuable fonetic comment. Thealfabet employd is practically that of the International Fonetic Association.No such scientific indication of English pronunciation has hitherto appeard inany American dictionary.Dr. R. E. House, of the University of Chicago, desires to call to the atten-tion of those who are working in the early Spanish drama that he is preparingan edition of thé CoM~ta; Vidriana o .d Gue~e.The new edition of the CÂOMOM de '<A7S:<ÏWf?:by H;~ :€tbeen publisht by Niemeyer, Halle; price, 5 m&H!& *<0

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