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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9781332201235

Excerpt from Studies in Honor of A. Marshall Elliott, Vol. 1 of 2 There have been collected in the accompanying volume a set of studies prepared by present or former members of the department of Romance Languages in the Johns Hopkins University and recent lecturers before that department. These studies were planned to celebrate the completion of Professor Elliott's thirty-fifth year of service in the University, and were to be offered to him as a mark of his pupils' esteem for their teacher and an evidence of the profit they had derived from his scholarly example. We would not have his death affect our purpose. On realizing the gravity of his disease, we told him of our desire, and afterwards kept him informed of the steps taken to accomplish it. And whatever misgivings we may have had, he never lost confidence in the success of the undertaking. So we feel that his personality has guided us from beginning to end. He did not look upon our work as a memorial of a career that is finished, nor do we. That memorial is to be found elsewhere, closely bound up with the place where he labored. These pages are an offering in his honor, a tribute to his intellectual activity, and a witness which we bring, in behalf of ourselves and our comrade who went before him, to the lasting influence of his ideals of instruction and investigation - an influence which it will be our privilege, we hope, to carry forward in a circle that ever widens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.