([Greek:  g]) I ought also to mention:  J. C. Dunlop. History of Prose Fiction.  A new edition by H. Wilson..2 vols.  London, 1888.  The fact that this work consists chiefly of summaries of plots and stories makes it of great value for tracing sources.

B. Special.

(i) Classical (Chap.  I, sect. ii).  J. A. Symonds. Studies of the Greek Poets.  Third edition. 2 vols.  London, 1893.  Chap.  XXI deals with ’The Idyllists.’

Andrew Lang. Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus rendered info English Prose, with an introductory essay. London, 1889.  The introduction contains a very interesting account of the conditions of Alexandrian poetry.

Joseph Jacobs. Daphnis and Chloe:  the Elizabethan version from Amyot’s Translation by Angel Day. London, 1890.  The introduction contains an account of Longus and his translators.

(ii) Medieval and Humanistic (Chap.  I, sect. iv).  F. Macri-Leone. La Bucolica latina nella letteratura italiana del secolo XIV, con una introduzione sulla bucolica latina nel medioevo. Parte I (all published).  Torino, 1889.

P. H. Wicksteed and E. G. Gardner. Dante and Giovanni del Virgilio, including a critical edition of the text of Dante’s ‘Eclogae Latinae’ and of the poelic remains of Giovanni del Virgilio. Westminster, 1902.

Attilio Hortis, Scritti inediti di Francesco Petrarca pubblicati ed illustrati..Trieste, 1874.

Luigi Ruberto. Le Egloghe del Petrarca. Il Propugnatore, xi (2). p. 244, xii (1). p. 83, (2). p. 153.  Bologna, 1878-9.

Attilio Hortis. Studl sulle opere latine del Boccaccio con particolare riguardo alla storia delia erudizione nel medio evo e alle letterature straniere. Trieste, 1879.

Marcus Landau. Giovanni Boccaccio, sua vita e sue opere.  Traduzione di Camillo Antona-Traversi approvata e ampliata dall’ autore. Napoli, 1881.  Greatly enlarged from the original German edition.  Stuttgart, 1877.

[Bucolic Collections.] (a) Eclogae Vergilii.  Calphurnii.  Nemesiani.  Frcisci.  Pe.  Ioannis Boc.  Ioanbap Ma.  Pomponii Gaurici..Florentiae.  Philippus de Giunta. 1504.  Decimo quinto.  Calendas Octobris.  Contains the editio princeps.of Boccaccio’s eclogues.

([Greek:  b]) En habes Lector Bucolicorum Autores XXXVIII. quot quot uidelicet a Vergilij aetate ad nostra usque tempora, eo poematis genere usos, sedulo inquirentes nancisci in praesentia licuit:  farrago quidem Eclogarum CLVI. mira cum elegantia tum uarietate referta, nuncque primum in studiosorum iuuenum gratiam atque usum collecta. Basel.  Ioannes Oporinus. 1546.  Mense Martio.

[Sannazzaro.] I may note here, what I was unaware of when writing my account of Sannazzaro’s Latin poems, that the Salices.was translated into English under the title of The Osiers. by Beaupre Bell, about 1724.  The MS. is in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge; see M. R. James’ Catalogue of the Western MSS., ii. p. 102.