ENGLISH AND GERMANIC

PHILOLOGY

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GUSTAF E. KARSTEN

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JULIUS GOEBEL, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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C. N. GREENOUGH AND OTTO E. LESSING,

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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HERMANN COLLITZ, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
GEORGE O. CURME, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
GEORGE T. FLOM, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
WILLIAM W. LAWRENCE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
CLARK S. NORTHUP, CORNELL UNIVERSITY

VOLUME IX.

OCTOBER, 1910

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(Entered at Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A., as second class matter under Act of Congress of July 16, 1994 )

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

ARTICLES.

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George O. Curme, Best German Pronunciation .....

Emil C. Wilm, The Relation of Schiller to Post-Kantian Idealism 20

Hermann Collitz, Two Supplementary Notes ..

George T. Flom, The Noun-Stems in the Đidrekssage ............

A. M. Sturtevant, Ibsen's Peer Gynt and Paa Vidderne ........

J. W. Rankin, A Study of the Kennings in Anglo Saxon Poetry 49

0. E. Lessing, Whitman and his German Critics ............... 85

Esther Harmon, Johanna Schopenhauer als Schriftstellerin..... 149

Ernest Voss, Aus den Schätzen der Wolfenbüttler Bibliothek. ... 180

Julius Goebel, Aus einer Festrede auf Schiller .................185

George T. Flom, The Scope of the Post-Positive Article in Olafs

Saga hins Helga ......

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H. N. MacCracken, The Story of Asneth .......... ..........225

P. S. Barto, Studies in the Tannhäuserlegend ................... 293

Albert Gubelmann, Hebbel as Lyric Poet .... ...........321

Albert Morey Sturtevant, The Old Norse Hávamál in Modern

Norwegian Folk-Song .....

Christabel Forsyth Fiske, Conventionalism in Holinshed's Chron-

...............356

Otto Mensendieck, The Authorship of Piers Plowman............404

C. O. Curme, The Origin and Growth of the Adjective Declension

in Germanic ..

.......439

F. W. C. Lieder, The Don Carlos Theme in Literature...........483

M. M. Skinner, Brief Notes on the Indebtedness of Spielhagen to

Dickens ........ .......... ........

..........499

Joseph Quincy Adams, Jr., The Timon Plays ........ ........506

Christabel F. Fiske, Conventionalism in Holinshed's Chronicle-11.529

icle

REVIEWS
Josef Wiehr, C. Thomas' History of German Literature ........ 99
John E. Matzke, Luquiens' Introduction to Old French Phonology.107
John W. Scholl, Schillers Leben von K. Berger ...... ......112