STUDY OF ENGLISH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21878, 14 August 1934, Page 10

STUDY OF ENGLISH

ANNUAL PUBLICATION PROFESSOR SEWELL HONOURED A distinction has been conferred on Professor W. A. Sowell, professor (V English at Auckland University College, in the publication of a paper by him in this year's edition of Essays and Studies by Members of tho English Association. Professor Sewell has contributed a study of Milton's theological views as reflected in tiie various revisions of his treatise, "Do Doctrina Christiana." This annual publication by tho English Association represents outstanding work in the study of English throughout Great Britain and this year's essays were collected by Professor D. Nichol Smith, Morton Professor of Shakespeare at Oxford. Tho contributors, in addition to Professor Sewell, are Mr. C. S. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, iYlr. Edmund Blunrlen, Fellow of Morton College, and a well-known poet, Mr. John Butt, who is at present editing an important work on Pope, Sir Edmund Chambers, the groat Shakespearian scholar, Mr. M. R. Ridley, Fellow of Balliol, Mr. Gordon Bottomley, the dramatist, and Professor Bruce Dickius, professor of languages at Leeds University and a leading Anglo-Saxon scholar. Professor SeweU's paper was recently reviewed at length in tho Times Literary Supplement and he was commended for having "confirmed from yet another angle and with all the power of patient scholarship the unsubduable independence of yMilton's thought."