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Excerpt from A Comparative Study of the Poem Guillaume D'angleterre: With a Dialectic Treatment of the Manuscripts, a Dissertation Presented to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
I have arranged the first division of my work, comprising the analogues and derivatives of the Guillaume legend, as follows� The stories are divided into two large divisions, constituting an Eastern set and a Western set. These are then subdivided first, according to locality and then according to language; for instance, the Romance languages would form one group, subdivided farther on the basis of language. In my discussion, I first give a brief outline of the story; then a tabulation of the motifs of the same; then I draw attention to the resemblances or differences existing between the story under consideration and the others of the same class, or of another group; finally, I add the references. The bibliography may seem scanty in places, but it is unavoidable in such a case, as nothing has been published yet to be recorded. At the close of each group I add a table of motifs for all stories in that subdivision, and at the close of the entire treatment I append a table of the entire material gathered. Then, in a short r�sum�, I strive to trace the development of the original from Indian sources, and add a tree giving graphicallv the derivation which I believe to be probable.
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