ENVOY

The séries FRENCH AUTHORS IN WAR TIME will, it is hopecl, place

Before our Allies and friends in Europe

AND before our GENEROUS FRIENDS IN AmERICA

the best pages which the last tragic months hâve brought forth.

HiLE France at the front is fighting and dying, it is the duty of France at home to scatter beyond her boimdaries and across the seas those writings which vibrate with the faith of her soldiers and with the ideas which they défend.

The séries will begin with three volumes, the first containing sélections from the writings of Maurice Barrés, the second being lectures by Emile Boltroux, and the third, studies by Ernest Lavisse. Ail of thèse men bear names that ring true on French soil.

The author to whom we owe the collective work known as the great History of France, the investigator of the Origins of Prussia, Ernest Lavisse, was entitled from a double point of view to judge the phases of the présent struggle in the name of Historj^

The lesson in energy contained in bis articles was