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Snell, Frederick John. Age of transition, 1400–1580. 2v. *$1. Macmillan.
The last volume in the “Handbooks of English literature” covers the period from Chaucer to Spenser: the first volume dealing with the poets; the second, with the dramatists and prose-writers.