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some of his other works. His fiction and his lyrîc poems, as well as criticisms of them, are easiîy accessible. His best biographies are those by Paul de Musset (1877; often reprinted; very S3rmpathetic and interesting, but so partial as to be inaccurate), by Mme. Arvède Barine (1893, 3d éd. 1900, in the séries Les Grands Écrivains Français; excellent), and by Paul Lindau (in German; Berlin, 1877). For bibliographical information, see M. Clouard, Bibliographie des œuvres d'Alfred de Musset, Paris, 1883, and Documents inédits sur A, de M., 1900. The rare "bibliophile" édition of the Théâtre d'Alfred de Musset, 4 vols., Paris, Jouaust, 1889-91, contains an admirable introduction by Jules Lemaître, who has repeated the substance of it in his Impressions de théâtre, vols, i, ii and x. Musset's complète works are published in varions éditions by Lemerre and by Charpentier. Good criticisms will be found in many historiés of French literature, and the following books: Lenient, La Comédie en France au XIX^ Siècle, vol. ii; Brunetière, Époques du théâtre français, chaps. 14, 15; Doumic, De Scribe à Ibsen (1896), and Études sur la littérature française (1898) ; Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vols, i, xiii. Portraits littéraires, vol. ii; Faguet, XIX^ siècle. In the présent édition, the notes aim to help the reader's literary appréciation and to solve ail such real difficulties as the ordinary dictionaries fail to explain. Some few lines of the text hâve been omitted, since the édition is intended not only for collèges but for advanced classes in schools.

KENNETH McKENZIE.

Yale University.

NoTE.To SECOND EDITION. In reprinting this book sevftral slight corrections hâve been made. The following titles should be added to the bibliography : Lafoscade,Z^ Théâtre d* Alfred de Musset^ Paris, 1901 ; and Sarcey, Quarante ans de théâtre^ vol. 4, 1901.