PREFACE At the end of the present academic year Professor George Lyman Kittredge will have completed twenty-five years of teaching in Harvard University. A number of his colleagues in the Division of Modern Languages, desiring to celebrate this date in a term of service which has been of unusual significance for the advancement of American learning, planned the publication of the present congratulatory volume. The limits of time and space made it impossible to invite contributions from any large number of Professor Kittredge's pupils, or even from all those doctors of philosophy who had pursued their studies under his special direction. But some fifty of his colleagues and older pupils were asked to write for the volume, and forty-five of them were able to prepare papers in the short time allowed for publication. To their contributions has been added a Bibliography of Professor Kittredge's own writings, compiled by Professors Neilson and Hanford and Dr. Long, assisted by Mr. Albert Matthews and Dr. H. de W. Fuller. It is hoped that no important work has been omitted from this list, though many small or unsigned articles must have escaped the notice of the committee, who were precluded from consulting Professor Kittredge by their desire to keep the whole project from his knowledge. The general editorship of the volume has been in the hands of Professors Robinson, Sheldon, and Neilson. To provide for the expenses of publication a subscription was raised among nearly three hundred of Professor Kittredge's friends, with the understanding that any surplus should be set apart as a book fund for the University Library, the income to be expended under his direction. But the publishing house of Messrs. Ginn and Company, wishing to have a share in the tribute, generously offered to bear the entire cost of publication; so that the whole sum subscribed, after the payment of a few incidental expenses, will become available for the Library. A special bookplate to be used for works purchased from the fund has been designed by Mr. Pierre La Rose. It is now the privilege of the authors and editors of these papers to offer them to Professor Kittredge in the name of the many men who delight to honor him. CONTENTS PAGE SOME REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN OF ROMANCE VERSIFICATION. EDWARD STEVENS SHELDON, A.B., Professor of Romance Philology, Harvard A FANTASY CONCERNING THE EPITAPH OF SHAKSPERE BARRETT WENDELL, A.B., Professor of English, Harvard University CLIFFORD HERSCHEL MOORE, PH.D., Professor of Latin, Harvard University THE SEA-BATTLE IN CHAUCER'S LEGEND OF CLEOPATRA. WILLIAM HENRY SCHOFIELD, PH.D., Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard CHARLES BURTON GULICK, PH.D., Professor of Greek, Harvard University WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON, PH.D., Professor of English, Harvard University RAYMOND WEEKS, PH.D., Professor of Romance Languages, Columbia University KENNETH MCKENZIE, PH.D., Assistant Professor of Italian, Yale University FRED NORRIS ROBINSON, PH.D., Professor of English, Harvard University WILLIAM TENNEY BREWSTER, A.M., Professor of English, Columbia University WALTER MORRIS HART, PH.D., Associate Professor of English, University of JOHN ALBRECHT WALZ, PH.D., Professor of German, Harvard University KENNETH GRANT TREMAYNE WEBSTER, PH.D., Instructor in English, Harvard ARTHUR CHARLES LEWIS BROWN, PH.D., Professor of English, Northwestern FRANK EDGAR FARLEY, PH.D., Professor of English, Simmons College FROM OUTDOORS TO INDOORS ON THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE ASHLEY HORACE THORNDIKE, PH.D., L.H.D., Professor of English, Columbia RAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN, PH.D., Professor of English, University of |