HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

F. W. CHRISTERN Boston : CARL SCHOENHOF

HARVARD eOLLESE LIBRARr

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XOBBBT PSI7MMOND, «LSCTROTYPKR AND PRINTBR, IfBW YORK.

PEEFACE.

The f oUowîng pages contaîn a few brief samples of

the brilliant and thoughtful work by Taine, Les

Origines de la France contemporaine. In the choice

of extracfcs from the comprehensive original, I hâve

found good suggestions in Hoffmann's sélections

ffom the same source for German schools. The

notes at the end of this book are confined to brief

historical elucidations and explanations of such words

as are not readily found in our ordinary school dic-

tionaries.

Lincoln, Neb., January, 1895.