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Old and Middle English Words for ‘Disgrace’ and ‘Dishonour’. By Ingegerd Lohmander. Gothenburg Studies in English 49. Gothenburg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1981. 228 pp. Skr. 80. The Buke of the Sevyne Sagis. Edited by C. C. van Buu‐Ren‐Veenenbos. Leiden University Thesis: Krips Repro Mep‐pel. 1982. ix + 463 pp. (Also published at Leiden by Brill as Vol. XX, Germanic and Anglistic Studies of the University of Leiden, 1982. Price Hfl. 75,—). William Dunbar. [by] Ian Simpson Ross. Leiden: E. J. Brill 1981. xiv + 284 pp. Price H.fl. 52,—. Young Thomas Hardy. With Revisions, Penguin 1978, 368 pp. and The Older Hardy. With revisions, Penguin 1980, 325 pp., £ 1.75 and £ 1.50 respectively. By Robert Gittings; The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, Vol. Two, 1893–1901. Edited by R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1980, 309 pp. Price £ 17.50. Orality and Literacy. The Technologizing of the Word. By Walter J. Ong. New Accents Series. London & New York: Me‐thuen. 1982. xi + 201 pp. Price £ 7.95 hb., £ 3.50 pb. Literacy and Social Development in the West. Edited by Harvey J. Graff. Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture 3. Cambridge, New York & Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1982. ix + 340 pp. Price £ 6.50 pb. Small Books and Pleasant Histories. Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth‐Century England. By Margaret Spuf‐ford. London: Methuen. 1981. xxi + 275 pp. Price £ 14.95. Books and their Readers in Eighteenth‐Century England. Edited by Isabel Rivers. Leicester: Leicester University Press. 1982. xi + 267 pp. Price £ 15.00. Shakespeare's Anonymous Editors. Scribe and Compositor in the Folio Text of 2 Henry IV. By Eleanor Prosser. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1981. xiv + 219 pp. Price $ 18.50. Martin Marprelate, Gentleman. Master Job Throkmorton laid open in his colors. By Leland H. Carlson. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1981. xxii + 445 pp. Price $ 25.00. The Critical Reception of American Literature in the Netherlands 1824–1900. A Documentary Conspectus from Contemporary Periodicals. By J. G. Riewald & J. Barker. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 1982. 349 pp. Price: 70 Dutch guilders. Chaucer and Menippean Satire. By F. Anne Payne. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. 1981. xii + 290 pp. Price: 22.50 US dollars. The Theme of Government in ‘Piers Plowman’. By Anna P. Baldwin. (Piers Plowman Studies I). Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer Ltd. (D. S. Brewer). 1981. vi + 107 pp. £ 15.00. Shakespeare and the Romance Ending. By R. S. White. Newcastle upon Tyne. 1981. [viii] + 139 pp. Price £ 2.50. (Available from the author at The School of English, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne.) John Bunyan. Some Gospel‐Truths Opened. A Vindication of Some Gospel‐Truths Opened. A Few Sighs from Hell. Edited by T. L. Underwood, with the assistance of Roger Sharrock. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1980. lvi + 402 pp. + illus. Price £ 25.00. John Bunyan. The Poems. Edited by Graham Midgley. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1980. lxii + 345 pp. + illus. Price £ 20.00. The Pilgrim's Progess: Critical and Historical Views. Edited by Vincent Newey. Liverpool English Texts and Studies, [18]. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 1980. xiii + 302 pp. Price £ 12.00. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050–1500. Ed. J. B. Severs and A. E. Hartung. Volume vi. New Haven: The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1980. x + 452 (1743–2194) pp. Price not given.