The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

the Chaucer Society, has largely increased the interest in our poet in America. Among the other scholars who should be mentioned in this connection are Professor Corson, of Cornell University, who published an edition of the "Legend of Good Women" before the English society had been organized; and Professor Lounsbury, of Yale College, who has carefully edited a text of the "Parlement of Foules."

In England, besides Mr. Furnivall, who has edited all of the Chaucer Society's publications, there are the Rev. W. W. Skeat, of Cambridge, who has published, in the series of the Clarendon Press, two volumes containing a text of several of the Canterbury Tales with elaborate and scholarly notes, besides what he has done elsewhere; and the Rev. Richard Morris, LL. D., of London, who has carefully edited the General Prologue and two of the Canterbury Tales, for the Clarendon Press. Many German scholars have made material additions to the mass of Chaucerian information, their writings bearing the marks of the erudition for which the students of that nation are noted.

In the work of discriminating between the true productions of Chaucer and those that

had for centuries been attributed to him, the chief credit is due to Mr. Henry Bradshaw, Fellow of King's College, and Librarian of the University of Cambridge. Independent researches, made by Professor Bernhard ten Brink, of the University of Strassburg, had, however, resulted in conclusions that did not materially vary from those of Mr. Bradshaw. A full account of these researches may be found in an article published in "Macmillan's Magazine " for March, 1874, entitled "Recent Work at Chaucer."