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The Council have also established a PROF. L. G. KASTNER of the University
Professorship of the English Language, of Manchester is engaged upon an edition
Literary Gossip . in addition to the existing Chair of English of the “Poetical Works
Poetical Works of William
Language and Literature, and have ap- Drummond of Hawthornden,' which he
THE REPORT of the Director of the pointed to the new Professorship Mr. hopes may be published early next year
Department of Historical Research of F. W. Moorman, who has been Assistant by the University Press. One of the
the Carnegie Institution of Washington Professor of English Language and Litera- chief points of interest in Prof. Kastner's
for 1911 gives an interesting account of the ture in the University since 1904.
edition will be the rehabilitation of
progress of the descriptive lists of English
This month's issue of the Journal of he followed closely, both in omis-
Phillips, and the demonstration that
and other European archives in course of
preparation by various editors. It is the Royal Statistical Society contains, sions and additions, an early issue of the
now decided that Prof. C. M. Andrews's in addition to Mr. Sauerbeck's annual
Poems,' before that of 1616, sent out
* Guide to American materials in the article, two papers of great interest. One, privately by Drummond to a few intimate
Record Office shall be published in two by Mr. R. A. Macdonald, adduces privately by Drummond to a few intimate
friends. This edition, which appeared
volumes, and Vol. I. , comprising the earlier evidence to show that there is no essential without any date or place of publication,
State Papers, is in the press.
connexion between the accumulation of has been overlooked by former editors.
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papers, has been delayed by the alteration wages. Mr. T. T. Williams maintains novel, “Larkmeadow,' may be expected
of official references commented on in a
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In his new story. The Common Touch,'
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