this extensive research might be crowned with a com-
prehensive work on the Crusades by the teacher and
master of the field. There seemed every possibility
that this hope and wish would be gratified, for he had
definitely planned such a work and organized the ac-
cumulated materials so that he might devote all of his
time to writing upon his retirement from active
duties at Princeton. It was to be "his magnum opus,
a detailed and scholarly history of the Crusades based
on an exhaustive and critical use of the contemporary
sources and vivified by a careful study on the ground
of the regions traversed and occupied by the Cru-
saders. For the latter purpose he made a visit to the
Near East." ¹ This hope and plan were rudely shat-
tered by his death on the very eve of his retirement
from Princeton.

Fortunately, however, he had had occasion to or-
ganize a large part of his material in preparation for
the Lowell Lectures at Harvard in 1924. In making
his definite plans for the larger work during his last
years at Princeton he was also revising these lectures
for publication. The latter were thus much enriched
by his plans for the larger work. The eight lectures
had been devoted to the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
involving the beginnings of the crusading movement
and extending through the period of active possession
of the Holy Land by the Crusaders. He had rounded
out this theme by a discussion of the results of these
activities and this intimate contact of West and East.

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