_. Learning wide
and exact, and original thought, characterise all the work of M.
Brunetiere; each of his many volumes should be searched by the student
for what he may need. The studies of M. Faguet on the writers of the
sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries are the
work of a critic who is penetrating in his psychological study of
authors, and who, just or unjust, is always suggestive. For numberless
little monographs the student may turn to Sainte-Beuve. Monographs
on a larger scale will be found in the admirable series of _Grands
Ecrivains francais_ (Hachette); the _Classiques populaires_ (Lecene,
Oudin et Cie.) are in some instances no less scholarly. The writings
of Scherer, of M. Jules Lemaitre, and of M. Anatole France are
especially valuable on nineteenth-century literature. The best study
of French historical literature is Professor Flint's _The Philosophy
of History_ (1893).

Provided with such books as these the student will hardly need the
general histories of French literature by German writers. I may name
Prof. Bornhak's _Geschichte der Franzosischen Literatur_, and the
more popular history by Engel (4th ed., 1897). Lotheissen's
_Geschichte der Franzosischen Literatur im XVII. Jahrhundert_ seems
to me the best book on the period. The monographs in German are
numberless.

The editions of authors in the _Grands Ecrivains de la France_ are
of the highest authority. The best anthology of French poetry is
Crepet's _Les Poetes francais_ (4 vols.). Small anthologies of French
poetry since the fifteenth century, and of French lyrical poets of
the nineteenth century, are published by Lemerre.

The list which follows is taken partly from books which I have used
in writing this volume, partly from the Bibliography in M. Lintilhac's
_Histoire de la Litterature francaise_. To name English writers and
books seems unnecessary.

THE MIDDLE AGES

_Histoire litteraire de la France_ (a vast repertory on mediaeval
literature).

GASTON PARIS. _La Litterature francaise au moyen Age_. 1890.

AUBERTIN. _Hist. de la Langue et de la Litt. francaises au moyen Age_.
2 vols. 1883.

G. PARIS. _La Poesie du moyen Age_. 2 vols. 1887.

LEON GAUTIER. _Les Epopees francaises_. 2nd edition. 4 vols. 1878-94.

J. BEDIER. _Les Fabliaux, Etudes de Litt. populaire et d'Histoire
litt. du moyen Age_. 1895.

L. SUDRE. _Les Sources du Roman de Renart_. 1893.

LENIENT. _La Satire en France au moyen Age_. 1883.