Reviews

• Published in: English studies 1977, Vol.58 (5), p.449-473
• Main Authors: Gerritsen, Johan, Kristensson, Gillis, Wallner, Björn, Johnson, William C., Mincoff, M., Morgan, P., Bordeaux, André, Øverland, Orm, Tschumi, Raymond, Kruck, W., De Smet-D'hondt, J.
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0013-838X; 1744-4217
• DOI: 10.1080/00138387708597851

Editing the Middle English Manuscript. By Charles Moorman. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 1975. ix + 107 pp. Price $ 6.95. Thomas Norton's Ordinal of Alchemy. Edited by John Reidy (Early English Text Society, Original Series, 272.) Oxford University Press. 1975. lxxv + 125 pp. + frontisp. + plate. Price £ 3.00. John Mirk's 'Instructions for Parish Priests'. Edited from MS Cotton Claudius A II and Six Other Manuscripts with Introduction, Notes and Glossary. By Gillis Kristensson. (Lund Studies in English, 49.) Lund: CWK Gleerup. 1974. 287 pp. + 7 plates. Price S.kr. 76.-. Play of Double Senses: Spenser's Faerie Queene. [By] A. Bart-Lett Giamatti. Englewood Cliffs, N. J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1975. xi + 140 pp. No price given. Shakespeare's Tragic Perspective. [By] Larry S. Champion. Athens : The University of Georgia Press. 1976. viii + 279 pp. Price $ 11.00. The Letters of Charles and Mary Ann Lamb. Volume I: 1796-1801 ; Volume II: 1801-1809. Edited by Edwin W. Marrs, JR. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. Volume I: 1975. xcvi + 294 pp. + frontisp. + illustr. Price £ 15.00; Volume II: 1976. xv + 304 pp. + frontisp. Price £ 17.50. H. G. Wells et son Temps. [Par] Jean-Pierre Vernier. (Études Anglaises, 38.) Publications de l'Université de Rouen: Didier. 1971. 557 pp. Price 75 FF. The Grotesque in American Negro Fiction : Jean Toomer, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. [By] Fritz Gysin. (The Cooper Monographs on English and American Language and Literature, 22.) Bern: Francke Verlag. 1975. 330 pp. Price SFr. 48.-. 'Ulysses' Cinquante Ans Après. Témoignages Franco-Anglais sur le Chef-d'Oeuvre de James Joyce. Rassemblés par Louis Bonnerot avec la collaboration de J. Aubert et Cl. Jacquet. Préface de Jean Jacquot. (Études Anglaises, 53.) Paris: Didier. 1974. xvii + 301 pp. + frontisp. + pits. Price FF 80,-. After Babel, Aspects of Language and Translation. [By] George Steiner. London, etc.: Oxford University Press. 1975. xii + 507 pp. + frontisp. Price £ 8.00; $ 18.50. Cohesion in English. [By] M. A. K. Halliday [and] Ruqaiya Hasan. (English Language Series, 9.) London : Longman Group Ltd. 1976. xv + 374 pp. Price £ 5.00.