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of the learned Victor SCHEIL, though his formal courses 

 in recent years have been devoted to the interpretation 

 of texts and to palaeography rather than to archaeology. 

 The Ecole du Louvre, founded in 1882, offers an inter- 

 esting three-year program of courses, intended primarily 

 to train directors and curators of museums, but open 

 to auditors, as well as to regularly enrolled students. 

 The subjects covered include the archaeology of France, 

 Oriental archaeology and ancient ceramics, Egyptian 

 archaeology, Greek and Roman archaeology, Semitic 

 antiquities, the history of painting, the history of mediae- 

 val, Renaissance, and modern sculpture, the history of 

 French art in the iyth and i8th centuries, and the history 

 of industrial art in France. The work in Greek and 

 Roman archaeology is under the direction of HERON DE 

 VILLEFOSSE, who has already been mentioned. The pro- 

 fessors for the other subjects are officials of the Louvre and 

 other museums, not members of other faculties. Among 

 them are: Georges BENEDITE, Curator of Egyptian An- 

 tiquities in the Louvre, author of several works in his 

 special field, including two of the scholarly catalogues 

 of the Cairo Museum. Leonce BENEDITE, Curator 

 of the Musee National du Luxembourg, a prolific writer 

 on modern art, one of the founders of the "Bulletin 

 des Musees" and "L 'Album des Peintres lithographes." 

 Paul LEPRIEUR, Curator of the Department of Paintings 

 in the Louvre. Andre MICHEL, Curator of Mediaeval, 

 Renaissance, and Modern Sculpture in the Louvre, best 

 known as editor of the comprehensive "Histoire de 1'Art 

 depuis les premiers temps chretiens jusqu'a nos jours" 

 (begun in 1905, and still in course of publication). 

 Gaston MIGEON, Curator of the Department of the Minor 

 Arts of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and Modern 

 Times in the Louvre, an authority on the art of the 

 East as well as that of the West. Pierre de NOLHAC, 



