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Old English and the Continental Germanic Languages: A Survey of Morphological and Phonological Interrelations. By H. F. Nielsen. Inssbruck: Inssbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 33. 1981. 311 pp. No price given. Ezra Pound and ‘The Cantos’: A Record of Struggle. By Wendy Stallard Flory. Yale University Press. 1980. xiv + 321 pp. £ 12.50. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variants from the Ellesmere Manuscript. Edited by Paul Ruggiers. Introductions by Donald C. Baker and by A. I. Doyle and M. B. Parkes. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press; Folkestone: Wm. Dawson and Sons Ltd. 1979. pp. liii + 1024. $ 125.00. Shakespeare's ‘More Than Words Can Witness’: Essays on Visual And Nonverbal Enactment in the Plays. Edited by Sidney Homan. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1980. 238 pp. Price $ 19.50. Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning. By Norman Rabkin. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1981. x + 165 pp. Linguistic Theory in America: the First Quarter‐Century of Transformational Generative Grammar. By Frederick J. Newmeyer. New York and London: Academic Press, 1980. xiii + 290 pp. £13.00.