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its professors, but in such a brief account as this it is 

 impossible to enter into details. 



Museums. In special facilities for graduate work, 

 Paris again is "facile princeps" among the cities of 

 France. Of its more than forty museums, over twenty 

 contain collections which are of interest to the student of 

 archaeology and the history of art. First among them 

 stands the great Musee du Louvre, with its wealth of 

 monuments of sculpture, painting, and the minor arts 

 from many regions and periods. Especially important 

 are the collections of Greek and Roman sculpture; Egyp- 

 tian, Babylonian, and Assyrian antiquities (the stele of 

 the Hammurapi Code is here); Greek vases; and Renais- 

 sance and modern paintings and sculptures. The Musee 

 des Antiquites nationales at St.-Germain-en-Laye con- 

 tains the largest collection in the world of antiquities of 

 France, covering the prehistoric, Gallic, Gallo-Roman, 

 and French periods to the Carolingian epoch. In the 

 Trocadero are the Musee de Sculpture comparee, con- 

 taining casts of important monuments of many different 

 periods; the Musee d'Ethnographie and the Musee 

 Indo-Chinois, the character of which is sufficiently in- 

 dicated by the names. The Musee de la Bibliotheque 

 Nationale contains not only manuscripts, early printed 

 books, and prints, but in the Cabinet des Medailles 

 it possesses important collections of vases, gems, coins 

 and medals. The Musee de Cluny is devoted to the 

 art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; the Musee 

 Guimet to that of the Far East; and there are many 

 other special museums and private collections of im- 

 portance. Moreover, Paris is one of the great cen- 

 ters of the trade in antiquities, and the student will 

 constantly find opportunities to acquire a knowledge 

 of prices and methods of buying and selling objects 

 of art. 



