de la Langue et de la Littérature françaises_ (1896-1900); G. Paris, _La Littérature française au Moyen Âge_ (2nd ed., 1890): for Italy, A. Gaspary, _Geschichte der italienischen Litteratur_ (1884-9, Eng. transl. 1901): for England, T. Warton, _History of English Poetry_ (ed. W. C. Hazlitt, 1871); B. Ten Brink, _History of English Literature_ (Eng. trans. 1893-6); J. J. Jusserand, _Literary History of the English People_ (vol. i. 1895); W. J. Courthope, _History of English Poetry_ (vols. i, ii. 1895-7); G. Saintsbury, _Short History of English Literature_ (1898), and, especially for bibliography, G. Körting, _Grundriss der Geschichte der englischen Litteratur_ (3rd ed., 1899). The _Periods of European Literature_, edited by Prof. Saintsbury, especially G. Gregory Smith, _The Transition Period_ (1900), and the two great _Grundrisse_, H. Paul, _Grundriss der germanischen Philologie_ (2nd ed., 1896-1903), and G. Gröber, _Grundriss der romanischen Philologie_ (1888-1903), should also be consulted.--The beginnings of the mediaeval drama are closely bound up with liturgy, and the nature of the liturgical books referred to is explained by W. Maskell, _A Dissertation upon the Ancient Service-Books of the Church of England_ (in _Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae_, 2nd ed., 1882, vol. iii); H. B. Swete, _Church Services and Service-Books before the Reformation_ (1896); Procter-Frere, _New History of the Book of Common Prayer_ (1901). The beginnings of Catholic ritual are studied by L. Duchesne, _Origines du Culte chrétien_ (3rd ed., 1902, Eng. trans. 1903), and its mediaeval forms described by D. Rock, _The Church of our Fathers_ (1849-53), and J. D. Chambers, _Divine Worship in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries_ (1877). The following list of books is mainly intended to elucidate the references in the footnotes, and has no claim to bibliographical completeness or accuracy. I have included the titles of a few German and French dissertations of which I have not been able to make use.] * * * * * _Aberdeen Records._ Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen. Edited by J. Stuart. 2 vols. 1844-8. [_Spalding Club_, xii, xix.] _Acta SS._ Acta Sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, quas collegit I. Bollandus. Operam continuavit G. Henschenius [et alii], 1734-1894. [In progress.] AHN. English Mysteries and Miracle Plays. By Dr. Ahn. Trier, 1867. [Not consulted.] ALCUIN. See DÜMMLER. ALLARD. Julien l’Apostat. Par P. Allard. 3 vols. 1900-3. ALLEN. The Evolution of the Idea of God: an Enquiry into the Origins of Religion. By Grant Allen, 1897. ALT. Theater und Kirche in ihrem gegenseitigen Verhältniss. Von H. Alt, 1846. _Anal. Hymn._ Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi. Ediderunt C. Blume et G. M. Dreves. 37 parts, 1886-1901. [In progress.] ANCONA. Origini del Teatro italiano. Per A. d’Ancona, 2nd ed. 2 vols. 1891.