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 638 Emerson and (to make a long leap) in Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality", Trailing clouds of glory do we come From God who is our home. (I do not, of course, mean to imply that Cowley invented the cadence; we have it, for example, in Spenser's "Epithala- mion:" Go to the bower of my beloved love, My truest turtle-dove; but that his odes are a good place to study it with reference to its influence on later odists.) Clearly the question of the lyric values of such devices as this, and also of various rime arrange- ments, is one of considerable importance for the history of the subject; a more important question, for all practical purposes, than the difference between the regular and irregular type of Pindaric, since this latter difference is scarcely perceptible by the ear. Perhaps at a later time Dr. Shafer will pursue this aspect of his theme, and carry the matter at least as far as Gray, or even to Shelley, as he could evidently do with happy results. Finally, it may be noted that the monograph is not only better written but better printed than most dissertations. The mechanics of copy and proof have been handled in a genuinely workmanlike fashion, and the Bibliography is a model, both editorially and typographically, for unpretentious lists of its kind. I have noted for the most part only such trifling errata as are self-correcting. In the last clause on page 113 the printer seems to have made the writer to say ("in consonance with Horace's pastoral vignette")the opposite of what he means. RAYMOND M. ALDEN. Leland Stanford Jr. University. PATIENCE, A WEST MIDLAND POEM OF THE FOUR- TEENTH CENTURY, edited by Hartley Bateson, B. A. Second Edition, recast and partly rewritten. Manchester, At the University Press. Longmans, Green & Co., 1918. xlviii 77. Mr. Bateson's second edition, it may be said at once, is a considerable improvement on the first. It gives evidence that he is glad to learn and is willing to consider the suggestions of others. The book as a whole is reduced from 149 to 125 pages. From the Introduction has been excluded the Hypothetical Sketch of the Poet, and two short Appendices. New and fuller foot-notes improve it in other respects. Most*of the^misprints