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The séries FRENCH A UT HORS IN WAR TIME will, it is hoped, 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.

WHiLE France at the front is fighting and dying, it is the duty of France at home to scatter beyond her boundaries 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 containiiig èelecti^^p^* flroni the writings of Maurice Barrés, the' second Éeing' lectures by Emile Boutroux, and tfi^.tbirà,- studîés ty'Eçnest Lavisse. AU of thèse men bear names that ring true on French soil.

To the hearts of Frenchmen the articles which Barrés writes in the daily press are a source of comfort and of courage. The French reader is touched that one of the masters of French prose, a notable artiste ,like Barrés, should dévote himself to the problems, however humble, which the heroic hour provides. But for