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The Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, where so many 

 of our foremost American architects and artists have 

 been taught, has for many years been a proof of the close 

 union that might exist in so many other spheres. Its 

 teaching is historical as well as technical, and it has 

 valuable educational material in casts as well as in original 

 works and in reconstructions of ancient monuments. 

 Its librarian for many years, Eugene MUNTZ, was one of 

 the earliest, most inspiring and fruitful historians of 

 Renaissance art; his masterpiece is the "Histoire de 1'Art 

 pendant la Renaissance" (3 vols., 1889-1891). 



Finally, in the Ecole Nationale des Charles, intended 

 primarily to train archivists and librarians, a course in 

 the Archaeology of the Middle Ages is given by Eugene 

 LEFEVRE-PONTALIS, joint editor with Robert de LAS- 

 TEYRIE of the earlier volumes of the " Bibliographic des 

 travaux historiques et archeologiques " (1885 on), of 

 whose works " L 'Architecture religieuse dans 1'ancien 

 diocese de Soissons au xi e et au xii e siecles" (2 vols., 1894- 

 96) is perhaps the best known. 



Other Universities. Of opportunities for the study 

 of archaeology outside of Paris it is impossible to give 

 more than a brief account. Most of the fifteen smaller 

 universities make some provision for archaeology and 

 related subjects, sometimes with reference to special 

 conditions; so, in the University of Algiers, instruction 

 is given in the antiquities and geography of Africa and 

 in Mohammedan civilization and the history of the 

 Arabs. Work in "archaeology" is formally provided 

 for at Aix; in "archaeology and the history of art," 

 at Caen, Dijon, Grenoble, Lyon, and Toulouse. In 

 several universities, the professors of the classics offer 

 courses in Greek and Roman antiquities. The American 

 student will occasionally find himself attracted to a 

 particular place by the special attainments of one of 



