TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: The pagination of this book is unusual. The book consists of four sections, each of which is page numbered within itself. Additionally, the pages of the entire document are numbered consecutively. This results in sections two, three, and four in the original document having two page numbers on each page, one for the page number of the section and one for the page number of the whole document. To aid in clarity the pages in this eBook have been numbered consecutively for the entire document. However, the page numbers shown in the Table of Contents for each section and the Indexes, where they appear, have been left as they appear in the original document. The links, of course, have been made to the correct pages. Other transcriber's notes will be found at the end of this eBook, following the Footnotes. HUMANISTIC STUDIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS VOLUME I LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY 1915 COMMITTEE ON HUMANISTIC STUDIES FRANK HEYWOOD HODDER FRANK WILSON BLACKMAR EDWIN MORTIMER HOPKINS ARTHUR TAPPAN WALKER SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB, Editor CONTENTS I. STUDIES IN THE WORK OF COLLEY CIBBER. _By De Witt C. Croissant, Ph. D._ II. STUDIES IN BERGSON’S PHILOSOPHY. _By Arthur Mitchell, Ph. D._ III. BROWNING AND ITALIAN ART AND ARTISTS. _By Pearl Hogrefe, A. M._ IV. THE SEMANTICS OF -MENTUM, -BULUM, AND -CULUM. _By Edmund D. Cressman, Ph. D._ BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HUMANISTIC STUDIES _Vol. I_ _October 1, 1912_ _No. 1_ STUDIES IN THE WORK OF COLLEY CIBBER BY DE WITT C. CROISSANT, PH. D. _Assistant Professor of English Language in the University of Kansas_ LAWRENCE, OCTOBER, 1912 PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY CONTENTS I Notes on Cibber’s Plays II Cibber and the Development of Sentimental Comedy Bibliography PREFACE The following studies are extracts from a longer paper on the life and work of Cibber. No extended investigation concerning the life or the literary activity of Cibber has recently appeared, and certain misconceptions concerning his personal character, as well as his importance in the development of English literature and the literary merit of his plays, have been becoming more and more firmly fixed in the minds of students. Cibber was neither so much of a fool nor so great a knave as is generally supposed. The estimate and the judgment of two of his contemporaries, Pope and Dennis, have been far too widely accepted. The only one of the above topics that this paper deals with, otherwise than incidentally, is his place in the development of a literary mode.