Marquis de Louvois served as French Minister of War under Louis XIV. The letters published in this volume were written from July 1681 to August 1684 and deal almost entirely with the War in Flanders. They are ordered by military campaign into ten sections, and the volume includes an introduction, identification list, and bibliography.

This epic French poem was most likely written in the fourteenth century. The edition contains an introduction examining the plot, structure, language, syntax, and composition of the work. Also included is a description of the handwriting used and an explanation of the preparation of the manuscript. The annotated poem is followed by a list of proper names employed in it.

This collection of essays is a memorial volume of Romance language etymological essays written by Prof. Carlton Cosmo Rice (1876-1945), a leading scholar of philology and linguistics at the time, and gathered by Urban T. Holmes.

Le Bocage de l'Art d'Armer, Le Loyer's version of Ovid's work, was published in 1576. Included in this volume is an introduction, the 156-stanza poem by Le Loyer with detailed notes, and a conclusion that makes comparisons between the original work by Ovid and Le Loyer's adaptations.

Using W. Von Wartburg's critical bibliography of dialect and patois as a key reference, this work is a complete bibliography of Italian dialect dictionaries that had appeared at the time of its publication.

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian philosopher, poet, mathematician, and astrologer. This is the first English translation published in the twentieth century of his De gli eroici furori, or The Heroic Frenzies.

Using W. Von Wartburg's critical bibliography of dialect and patois as a key reference, this work brings together examples of words derived from Latin femina, domina, and a few kindred words in the regional and border dialects of France. Adams also considers the descriptive terms for woman and girl in the same territory.

Jehan de Lanson is a thirteenth-century French epic poem in alexandrine verse. This edition is based on the manuscripts of Paris and Bern, and includes an introduction, a table of proper names, and a glossary.

Juan del Valle Caviedes (1645-1697), also known as Caviedes, was a seventeenth-century Peruvian poet. Daniel R. Reedy's examination of his life and work includes a survey of critical commentaries on his poetry since 1791 and a brief history of the editions of his works.

Robert Burgess's study of Platonism in Desportes poetry rounds out those of his predecessors in the 16th-century field, particularly Merrill, Kerr, and Lefrancz.