PREFACE

1910; to Julien Lemer's Balzac, Sa Vie — Son Œuvre j Paris, 1892; to Henry James' French Poets and NoveU istSy New York, 1908, and to several of the standard historiés of French literature. My thanks are due to Professors Giese, Cerf and Gay and Mr. Grifl^ of the University of Wisconsin for help on doubtful points, and to Professor Raymond Weeks of Columbia University for his gênerai supervision of the work and for his kindly encouragement. The text is that of Calmann- Lévy. With the omission of a single ill chosen and unimportant phrase, it is reproduced intact.

Beloit Collège, Beloit, Wisconsin, February, 1914.