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Professer ofthe Romance Languages& Literature s in Columbia Uni-uersity

A History of French Literature.

By Prof. C. H. C. Wright, Harvard University.

This is a convenient and comprehensive history of French Literature, written in English, tracing the literary development of the French people from the Middle Ages to the présent day. Prof. Wright has produced a work which might truly be called "a literary history of France," in which he throws much light on many old thèmes in a bright and unconventional way. There is a very complète bibliography and index.

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OXFORD FRENCH SERIFS

BY AMERICAN SCHOLARS General Editor: Raymond Weeks, Ph.D.

Projessor oftlie Romance l.anguages and Literatures in Columbia i/ni-zrrsify

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Gobseck and Jésus-Christ en Flandre.

By Honoré de Balzac. Edited by R. T. Holbrook. Cloth net, 60c

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pieces. Intended for the second or third yearof study.

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In Active Préparation

By Edouard Laboulaye. Edited with an introduction and English notes by Albert Schinz, Professor of French Literature at Bryn Mawr Collège. And a vocabulary by Helen Maxwell King, A.B.,and M. A. Professor of French, Olivet Collège, Michigan.

French Pronunciation.

Principles and practice and a summary of usage in writing and printing.

By James Geddes, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Romance Languages in Boston University.

Les Femmes Fortes.

Edited, with notes and vocabulary by Albert Cohen McMaster, A. M., and Francis B. Barton, Ph.D., Ins truc tors in Williams Collège.

(Other volumes to follow shortly)