HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

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CANFIELD'S FRENCH LYRICS

Chosen and edited by Prof. Arthur Graves Canfield of the University of Kansas.

xxii +3^2 pp. i6mo. $i.oo, nei.

Over 240 of the best French lyrics sincc the Renaissance, with a particularly full représentation of the nineteenth century. Among the over 60 poets represented are (the number of sélections bracketed after eachj: D'Orléans (5); Villon (3); Ronsard (7) ; Du Bellay (3); Malherbe (3) ; Racine (i) ; Rousseau (i) ; Rouget de Lisle (i); Chenier (3); Arnault (i); Chateaubriand (i); Desaugiers(i); Nodier (2); Béranger(6j; Desbordes-Valmore (3); Lamartine fi2); de Vigny (2); Hugo (29); Barbier (i); d'Agoult (i); de Nerval (2); Musset (13;; Gautier (15); Laprade (3); Ackermann (i); Leconte de Lisle (18); Baudelaire (11); Dupont (4); Lemoyne (2); Banville (3); Theuriet (2); Lefenestre (2); Silvestre (i); Glatigny(i); Sully-Prudhomme (22); Daudet (2); Cazalis (2); Fremine (i); Coppée (3); Heredia (2); Verlaine (14); Bergerat (i); Favie (1); Déroulède (i); Boutelleau (2); Rivet (2); Tiercelin (i); Maupassant '2): Bourget (5).

The introduction briefly outlines the history of the lyric in France, characterizes its qualities, and explains its versification. The brief notes are chiefly literary and biographical.

Dial : — "Excellent in every way— in taste. scho'arship, and sensé of proportion "

Prof. A. G. Cameron of Frinceton: — " Editorially. poetically. scholastically, it is most admirable, and the pleasure and value of the book are increased by its attractive internai and extemal présentation.''

Otii G Bunnell, Instructor at YaU :

—" It is something that I hâve been looking for for somï time. The sélections seem to me very happy ones."

Prof. .Alhert B. yohnson of Brotvn :

— " By far the best collection of French poetry that has yet been published in ihis country."

Miss H. habelle Williams of Smith Collège: — " It seems to me the most complète and best selected collection of French vt!rse ever published in this countr>'. Mr. Canfield's taste is of the best, as a'so is the scholarship shown jn the notes."'

Prof. C. H. Grandgent o/ HcirTarri :

— '■ I like it very much. I am thinking of using it next year."

Prof. F. C. de Sumichrnst of Harvard : — '• While I hâve one or two reser\-ations to make. it strikes me as the best co;lection of French L>Tics puolished in this country for school and collège use.""

Prof. O. B. Super of Dickinso" Collège :~-^' Y OT the use of the average student this is decidedly the best collection of French Lyric poetry that I am acquainted with."

Miss Helen Marshall o/ N'^r;i>ii-h (Conn.) hree Acaciemv : — " It is thf best collection of French Lyrics I hâve ever seen. suitable to be put into classes in the High School."

Prof II "nr y Johnson of Bowdoin :— " It contains the best things in French Lyric poetry in generous measure in the hands of an edit ir whose work is evenly and finely satsfactory."

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