CONTENTS · MARCH "For Members Only": News and Comment . I. Design for Treachery: The Unferth Intrigue. By JAMES L. ROSIER. 1 II. Naturaleza, Religion y Honra en La Celestina. Por GUSTAVO CORREA. 8 III. King Hamlet's Ghost in Belleforest? By ARTHUR P. STABLER..... ... 18 IV. Jonson and the Neo-Latin Authorities for the Plain Style. By \VESLEY TRIMPI. 21 V. "Eager Thought": Dialectic in Lycidas. By JON S. LAWRy........... 27 VI. Marvell's Horatian Ode. By JOHN 1vf. WALLACE. .................. 33 VII. Verbal Irony in Tom Jones. By ELEANOR N. HUTCHENS.... ........ 46 VIII. A Reading of Wieland. By LARZER ZIFF... ...................... 51 IX. Toward a Revaluation of Goethe's Glitz: The Protagonist. By FRANK G. RyDER.... .. .. .. ...... .. 58 X. Tom Moore and the Edinburgh Review of Christabel, By ELISABETH W. SCHNEIDER.. ....................................... 71 XI. Keats, Milton, and The Fall of Hyperion. By STUART M. SPERRY, JR.. 77 XII. From Earth to Ether: Poe's Flight into Space. By CHARLES O'DONNELL. 85 XIII. The Biblical Sources of Hawthorne's "Roger Malvin's Burial." By W. R. THOMPSON. .. .. .. .. ....... 92 XIV. De Quincey's Revisions in the "Dream-Fugue." By RICHARD H. BYRNS... ............................................ 97 XV. Ruskin in French Criticism: A Possible Reappraisal. By FRANK D. CURTIN.................... ......................... .. 102 XVI. Zola and Busnach: The Temptation of the Stage. By MARTIN KANES 109 XVII. The Pursuit of Form in the Novels of Azorin. By LEONLIVINGSTONE 116 XVIII. "Profusion du soir" and "Le Cimetiere marin." By CHARLES G. WHITING.... ....................................... .. 134 XIX. Aspects of Imagery in Colette: Color and Light. By I. T. OLKEN. .. 140 XX. Psychology in the Early Works of Thomas Mann. By FREDERICK J. BEHARRIELL.... ................. .. ................ .. 149 XXI. Camus and Vigny. By CHARLES G. HILL. .. 156 XXII. Two Types of "Heroes" in Post-War British Fiction. 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