^{Note 1 in page xx} About one hundred and fifty circulars have also been sent to representative European scholars and writers, but reports from them have not yet arrived in sufficient numbers to be included in this survey of opinion.

^{Note 1 in page xxi} It has been thought desirable on various grounds to publish no names in connection with the reports, but the aim has been to make the presentation of opinion practically complete on both sides of the main question. Many excellent reports have been crowded out owing to lack of space, though the trend of the arguments has been carefully followed in the general statement.

^{Note 2 in page xxii} For the sake of brevity I dispense with connective words, and arrange the individual reports under the letters (a), (b), (c), etc.

^{Note 1 in page xxxvii} See also Gaston Paris, Poésie du Moyen-Age, ii, 232, and the fourth chapter of my Beginnings of Poetry.

^{Note 1 in page xli} “Essay on English Metrical Law,” appended to the collective edition of his poems. 6th. ed., London, 1897.

^{Note 2 in page xli} Lectures on the Art of Reading. 3d. ed., London, 1787; see also W. Faulkner, Strictures on Reading the Church Service. 2nd. ed., London, 1813.