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YALE LITERATURE.
A Noteworthy Work.
“The Christ of Cynewulf” Edited, with
Introduction, Notes and a Glossary,
by Professor Albert S. Cook. Ginn
& Co., Boston, 1900.
“Tf this book, by illustrating some-
what moreperfectly the meaning of a
noble piece of Old English poetry,
should do something to remove this un-
founded and unfortunate prejudice, I
shall not regret the labor which, after
all; has been its own abundant reward.”
With this protest against the frivolous
reproach urged against Old English,
that it had no literature “worthy of
the name,” Professor Cook announces
the purpose of his volume. It is a some-
what modest introduction to perhaps the
most painstaking and certainly the most
important contribution in this field, by
unquestionably the first authority in this
country. To the infinite pains, the min-
ute and laborious scholarship, the 103
pages of introductory matter and the
228 pages of notes and glossary, as
against 64 pages of text, abundantly
testify. Certainly no stone has been left
unturned to make this edition, if not
final, at least a despair to those who may
take up this particular work at any fu-
ture time.
It is in a sense unfortunate that some
of the most choice results published in
the Introduction should have been given
to the world before; namely, the dis-
covery of the sources of Part Three, in
“Modern Language Notes,” in June,
1889, and the more recent discovery of
the sources of the first part, published
in 1897. These, if we are not mistaken,
are the most important side lights yet
thrown upon this poem of Cynewulf.
But their incorporation in the introduc-
tion of this volume places them where
they should be, side by side with the
text and interpretative of it. These con-
tributions are, however, not the less im-
portant because heretofore published,
and especially, as thus collated, they
throw an important light upon Cynewulf
as an exponent of medieval Christianity.
To Professor Cook’s estimate of
Cynewulf, the layman will certainly de-
mur, although it is certainly not un-
qualified, as witness the following: “The
fault of Cynewulf is in harmony with
the tendency of the Old English poets
in general, a tendency to dwell too much
on details, and to neglect the archi-
tectonics, the perspective of the whole.
The more intensely a poet feels, the
greater is this danger, especially if a
sufficient outline has not been provided
for him by an author on whom he is
dependent.” (Introduction, page xc.)
The positive assertion which follows will
be a revelation to the uninitiated, and
will be challanged by those very critics
against whom, according to the preface
quoted above, the protest is made: “So
much may fairly be said without chal-
lenging for Cynewulf a comparison with
Dante, which he would be unable to sus-
tain. In grasp, in variety, in narrative
skill, in development of a difficult
thought, in architectonic power, Cyne-
wulf is absolutely inferior; but in com-
punction, gratitude, hope, love, awe and
tenderness, he belongs to the same or-
der; and in his sense of the sublime
and the ability to convey it to his
readers, he need not shrink from a com-
parison with either Dante or Milton,—
in other words, with the very prophets
of the sublime among the poets of Chris-
tianity.” The careful reader will doubt-
less admit that Professor Cook has left
nothing undone to make out his case.
Of the Notes and Glossary little need
be said and all of it in praise. No one
at all acquainted with the condition of
Old English scholarship here and
abroad can help praising the more than
German thoroughness. Not less_re-
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It is one thing to do a laboriously com-
plete piece of research; it is quite
another to present the results of it in
an orderly and lucid form. It will be
interesting to note how nearly Professor
Cook’s followers in this series of Old
and Middle English texts can approach
to this standard of excellence.
Following Professor Lounsbury’s
monumental work on Chaucer, Profes-
sor Beer’s “History of Romanticsm,”
and Professor Cross’s “Development of
the English Novel,” this volume will
add, if that were necessary, to the re-
putation of the English Department at
Yale.
A Good Story.
“Some folks,’ Calhoun used to Say,
want to know everything before they’ve
done anything. Why, Bennie, you don’t
know two and two make four till you’ve
put ’em together. Why? Because they
don’t make four till you’ve put ’em to-
gether.
““But you know they will make four,’
I would answer for the argument.
“Well,” he would say, ‘I’ve known a
two and two that was as good as a
dozen. And I’ve known another two
and that two was worse than nothing.
“That was an odd man whom I never
understood.
“But I think if I were to choose one
man to go with into the wilderness, it
would be Calhoun and no other; and I
suppose that is one kind of friendship as
the old poets declare. For the matter of
knowing and doing, it is good arithmetic
for a man to know how to put two
and two together so as to make what-
ever he needs. That is Ben Cree’s ‘say-
ing, the sense of which he learned from
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