TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

Royal Society of Literature

OF

THE UNITED KINGDOM.

SECOND SERIES.

VOL. XVII.

LONDON:
ASHER AND CO.

MDCCCXCVII.

PRINTED BY ADLARD AND SON, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE, E.C.

CONTENTS.

I. Poetry. By the Right Hon. LORD HALSBURY,

Lord High Chancellor, President R.S.L.

II.-Ethical and Symbolical Literature in Art. By

J. S. PHENE, LL.D., F.S.A., Vice-President

R.S.L..

III. Coincidences. By the Right Hon. Professor F.

MAX MÜLLER, Hon. F.R.S.L.

IV.-English Alliteration, from Chaucer to Milton. By

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1.

25

67

R. A. DOUGLAS LITHGOW, LL.D., F.S.A. .

V. An Anthology of Hudibras. By JAMES CURTIS,

F.S.A., F.R.S.L.

115

151

TERRY, F.R.S.L.

177

VI.-Thomas Nashe, Satirist. By H. M. IMBERT-

VII. The Drama of the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries

compared with the Fiction of the XIXth

By the Ven. Dr. THORNTON, Archdeacon of

Middlesex.

VIII. The Scottish and the English Macbeth. By

CHARLOTTE CARMICHAEL STOPES.

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PRINTED BY ADLARD AND SON, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE, E.C.

CONTENTS.

I.-Poetry. By the Right Hon. LORD HALSBURY,
Lord High Chancellor, President R.S.L.
II.-Ethical and Symbolical Literature in Art. By
J. S. PHENÉ, LL.D., F.S.A., Vice-President
R.S.L.

III. Coincidences. By the Right Hon. Professor F.
MAX MÜLLER, Hon. F.R.S.L..

IV.-English Alliteration, from Chaucer to Milton. By

R. A. DOUGLAS LITHGOW, LL.D., F.S.A.
V.-An Anthology of Hudibras. By JAMES CURTIS,

PAGE

1

67

115

VI. Thomas Nashe, Satirist.

TERRY, F.R.S.L.

151

By H. M. IMBERT

177

VII. The Drama of the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries

compared with the Fiction of the XIXth.
By the Ven. Dr. THORNTON, Archdeacon of
Middlesex.

VIII. The Scottish and the English Macbeth.
CHARLOTTE CARMICHAEL STOPES.

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