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 Reviews and Notes 641 tion of Lat. stulti; jrikke adv. should be glossed 'frequently' of course; and the ON. form is Jrykkr; Unsounde 58 and 527 are the same word, the sb. meaning 'evil, misfortune,' in spite of Gollancz's separation into adj. and sb. here followed by Bate- son; Wayte should have the added meanings 'watch, look after'; Wrache 'vengeance' is from OE. wrsec, not wracu, also cited by Gollancz; Wro]?ly should be Wro)?ely; Wy$e is from OE. wiga, not wlga. OLIVER FARRAR EMERSON. Western Reserve University. THE FATAL DOWRY. By Philip Massinger and Nathaniel Field. Edited from the Original Quarto, with Introduction and Notes. By Charles Lacy Lockert, Jr. Lancaster, Pa. 1918. 8vo, pp. 167. In this edition, prepared as a doctoral dissertation at Prince- ton University, Mr. Lockert has made a welcome contribution to the study of Massinger and Field. The well-planned Intro- duction seems to cover all that needs to be said, and the text supplies for the first time an exact reprint of the original quarto. It is to be hoped that other graduate students of Princeton, or elsewhere, will in the near future issue similar editions of the remaining plays of Massinger, who has too long been neglected by modern investigators. In his discussion of the date of The Fatal Dowry, Mr. Lockert makes it reasonably clear that the play was written within the four-year period 1616-1619, and he expresses the opinion that itwas composed at some time in the later rather than the earlier half of that period. The backward date, 1616, he bases on the statement that Nathaniel Field joined the King's Men in that year. I am not aware of any evidence on which this statement could rest, and am inclined to doubt its accuracy. All that we positively know about Field's joining the King's Men is that his name appears in the licence for that company, March 27, 1619, and in the livery list, May 19, 1619. He was still connect- ed with Rossetter's company in the early part of 1617 his Amends for Ladies was produced by that troupe at Porter's Hall theatre in January, 1617. Shortly after that date, however, he seems to have joined the King's Men (I need not cite the evidence here) ; and it may be that at once he began collaborat- ing with Massinger on The Fatal Dowry. A strong probability that the play was composed in the year 1617 is to be found in a bit of internal evidence overlooked by Mr. Lockert. In Act