SECTION IV

MCHFTTE'S FEEICH CIÂSSICS AND "CHEFS-D'ŒUVRE DD THÉiTEE FRANÇAIS."

Under the above title, Messrs. Hachette issue a senes of the best Frencb plays, belonging to the classical and also to the modem or romantique schools. Each dramatic work is carefully ancotated and preceded by a critical and biographîcal introduction. The list will ultimately include, not only the acknowledged masterpieces of Molière, Corneille, and Eacine, but choice spécimens from the writings of Beaumarchais, Piron, Regnard, Voltaire, Marivaux, etc., etc.

BRUETS, L'AVOCAT PATELIN. Edited by Gustave Massox, Esq.,

ofHarrow. The appendis to this volume contains several long extracts from the mediL-eval " Farce de Maistre Pathelin," and wiU thus prove usefiil to the students of old French liter a tare.

CORNEILLE, LE CID. By Jules Bué, Esq., of Oxford.

CINNA. By Henry Tartzk, Esq., of Eton.

HORACE. By the Rev. x\ H. E. Brette.

POLYEUCTE. By Gustave Masson, Esq., of Harrow.

MOLIÈRE, L'AVARE. By Gustave Masson, Esq., of Harrow.

LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMAIE. By Francis Tarver,

Esq.., of Eton.

LES FEMMES SAVANTES. By A. Roche, Esq., Director of

the eminent Educational Institutes in London. LES FOURBERIES DE SOAPIN. By Moxs. de Caxdole, of

Clifton Collège,

LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE. By A. E. Ragon, Esq., City

of London Collège.

LE JMÉDECIN MALGRÉ LUI. By H. Lallemaxd, Esq., of

Cheltenham Collège.

LE MISANTHROPE. By the Rev. P. H. E. Brette.

TARTUFFE. By Jules Bué, Esq., of Oxford.

RACINE, ANDROMAQUE. By Henry Tarver, Esq., ofEton.

. ATHALIE. By the Rev. P. H. E. Brette.

BRITANNICUS. By Gustave Masson, Esq., of Harrow.

ESTHER. By A. Roche, Esq.

IPHIGÉNIE. By Jules Bué, Esq., of Oxford.

LES PLAIDEURS. By Francis Tarver, Esq., ofEton*

Pxic€, per Volume, 6d. ; in cloth, Is.

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PIRON, LA MÉTROMANIE. By Francis TARYER,Esq., of Eton. A

celebrated critic has said of this pièce : "Piron semble avoir écrit La Métromanie devant quelque image de Molière, les yeux fixés sur les traits du contemplateur, l'interrogeant sur l'art de créer un caractère." Price Is. ; cloth, Is. 6d. (Text-book for the Cambridge Local Examinations.)

SCRIBE, BERTRAND ET RATON; ou, L'ART DE CONSPIRER.

By Jules Bué, Esq., of Oxford. Cloth, Is. 6d.