EUPHUES HIS ORIGINS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 710, 8 January 1910, Page 6

EUPHUES HIS ORIGINS.

.'.The Cambi^dge'.Universitr.'Press,:it' is:announced,- 'will :publish- ,early in:.:1910, ;Professor.:' ''on; John -;Lyly. , "It '■■ ivili'.contain ,'particulars; of several 'important'discoveries ■concern-': ing: Lylyfs . life, : ..and; a'-'full': -study ..or the ;plays.. and "of ' Euphuiam'j •'."alid.-.willi 1 the;,publishers '.inform .us,,' throw, ..new.' light .on'the- '^Euphues".:and;its-social, import.;' ■ Simultaneously■f.witlr , v this an-, nouncement,; comes.'the: new': number ;;■; of.; "The in . ! which::first:place'r.is 'given' to apaperjbj; Mr.'-John Dover Wil-; son 6n'"Eupheus and'therProdigal Soni"In this'.article. Mt-Wilspn'-Betfl .himself; to .show that.'.Lyiy- derived,, not 'from: Lord North's' "Dial! 'of'.'Princes": and '.its' Peninsular.' .originals,: ; i generally stated,-but from .a-Xatin. drama,' ."Acola&v tus,". published at' Antwerp; in', 1529> The. authpr,"was'.'W,illem' ; de".Vplder,-who:,called Fullonins ■. or '■- onapheus,''the"lat- ; ,ter, being.i.the'.'name : by which-he; is;gen•'erally; known ;-and? his : . : drama-'; is : ' an., in-' ■tellectualisedoversion' of-the'etqry:'of the. Prodigal .'.Son—the?, most'. famous;,'indeed,: of'.'a-school-of'dramas'dealing-.with; the Bib'U(3alisfory.V;Mf..,Wilspn;BhPWß:,that:in ; do not know • the'name'.of .a chapter\uiitil'some time .after-,he-<or.; she;'.has.'been'.:intro-; iduced'.into.'the'}story,'jand;'even;then ; it 'only : com;es';outA'.qnite''by, , 'chance as it; were, in'':conversation." i .jThis,'; he, snp-: ,pbses,'.may.:be;;due".to.;the!oinissipn' , from ; tho;"sto^,;.:in\;the,csurse; : bf; ; 'translatipii,, of the -names .'of characters ;which 'in , ; , the. 'dramai'are.grrcn'-'a't^.the'-head fof,each; scene;', and-; Mβ Ithen ■ printMl ''cbntiiiuously/ throughout! in'-the margin.'.;- Occasionally: there is in VEriphnes",■ np -clue'j'.to-- the; speakers 'personality.• ■Mγ.' .Wilson's:con-.; may; riot have.-:gone.-back-to',."Acplagtus , ; , ,'itself,.'but that , he' assuredly.■ J did go •}& ■:. some ■. Of '•}. the, : large ■ famfly- of ■ dramasv of- iwhich'.:, it";>ie'- the' parent ''stem;-i • It : ,is:.fitting.;in. .these;' days. when , ' the foreign ;debt ,pf.English; liter-, atnre'is.-being ■ assess^:■ that-the'; origins of i liyly's''fambus: ; ',ypfk,': ep'iimpprtant:'in'English literature;: should.''he-.:definitely 'allocated.-T"Glasgow Berald."v:: ..'.;' ..•■,.■■;