PHILOLOGICAL A Journal Devoted to Scholarly Investigation in the VOLUME IV 1925 STANFORD LIBRARY PUBLISHED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Issued in January, April, July, and October. Subscription price, $2.00 a year; single copies, 60 cents postpaid. Contributions should not exceed 8000 words in length. Reviews will ordinarily be limited to 500 words. All communications are to be addressed to the Editor, Hardin Craig, Iowa City, Iowa. Editor HARDIN CRAIG Associate Editors CHARLES BUNDY WILSON, Germanic Languages and Literatures 337496 Grimmelshausen's Simplicius Simplicissimus and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe The Influence of Ossian in Spain PERCY H. HOUSTON, Doctor Johnson. A Study in Eigheenth Century Humanism (B.V. Crawford).-MARCEL HOc, Le Déclin de l'Hu- manisme Belge, Étude sur Jean Gaspard Gevaerts, Philologue et Poète, 1593-1666 (A.J. Dickman).—MARION Y.H. AITKEN, Étude sur le Miroir ou les Évangiles des Domnées de Robert de Gretham, suivie d'extraits inédits (Lucy M. Gay).-LOUIS ALLARD, La Comédie de Moeurs en France au XIX Siècle (C.E.Y.).-T. AT- KINSON JENKINS, La Chanson de Roland (C.E.Y.).—SIR SIDNEY LEE and F.S. BOAS, The Year's Work in English Studies-1922 (T.A.K.),—H.W. FOWLER, The Split Infinitive. OTTO JESPERSEN, Logic and Grammar (T.A.K.).—WALTER FISCHER, Die Briefe Richard Monckton Milnes' an Varnhagen von Ense, 1844-1854 G.D. HADZSITS and D.M. ROBINSON, Our Debt to Greece and Rome EMIL ERMATINGER, Gottfried Kellers Leben, Briefe und Tagebücher (Erwin Gustav Gudde).—JOHN W. DRAPER, William Mason. A Study in Eighteenth Century Culture (Bartholow V. Craw- ford). WILLIAM EBEN SCHULTZ, Gay's Beggar's Opera. Its Content, History, and Influence (Bartholow V. Crawford).— NORREYS J. O'CONOR, Changing Ireland. Literary Backgrounds of the Irish Free State (E. N. S. Thompson).-ARTHUR STAN- LEY PEASE, M. Tulli Ciceronis de dir atione libri, with Com- mentary (B. L. U.).-REMIGIO SABBA: I, Giovanni da Reven- na, insigne figura d'umanista (13437-1, \) (B. L. U.).—T. K. Commentators are happily agreed, it would seem, that Chaucer's Doctor of Phisyk is possessed of sufficient erudition and experience to rank him among the foremost theoretical and practising physicians of his time. Indeed, he has no peer when it comes to speaking of physic and of surgery. He has "dronkyn of that swete drynke of Astronomye" so deeply that he is able to diagnose any malady with respect to both the ultimate or primary causes emanating from the stars and the immediate causes residing in various compoundings of hot, cold, moist, and dry humours in the blood; and having located the seat of trouble in the human system, he skilfully employs the principles of natural magic in the making of appropriate astrological images and in the compounding of medicines for the purpose of effecting cures. He has a wide acquaintance with the works of ancient and mediaeval authors upon medicine, having the distinction of being, perhaps, the only physician who has ever perused the writings of that mythical founder of medicine, Esculapius. For years he and his apothecaries have worked together in brotherly fashion-to their mutual benefit-against the ravages of the Black Death and other diseases; and such have been his thrift and temperance that he is blessed with superior physical comforts in the way of good health and distinctive wearing-apparel. His thinking is but little upon the Bible. It has seemed to me possible that Skeat, Morris, and others have not done justice quite to his learning and to the 1 Skeat, Oxford Chaucer, C.T., A, 410-444. 2 Skeat, op. cit., V, 40-42; E. E. Morris, "The Physician in Chaucer,' An English Miscellany, pp. 338 ff.; Hinckley, Notes on Chaucer, pp. 31-36; Hammond, A Bibliographical Manual. |