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is JUSSERAND'S "Histoire litteraire du peuple anglais." 

 This book, which is also known in an English version, 

 appeared in several volumes from 1895 to I 99- More 

 thoroughly documented than the History of Taine, more 

 historical in tone, more inclusive of different origins and 

 influences, Jusserand's History illustrates by its clarity 

 and charm the prevailing tendencies of French scholarship. 

 Jusserand is the author of numerous other works relating 

 to English literature, among which are: "La vie nomade 

 et les routes d'Angleterre au xiv e Siecle," 1884 (known 

 in an enlarged English version as "English Wayfaring 

 Life in the Fourteenth Century," 1891); "Le Roman au 

 temps de Shakespeare," 1887; and "Shakespeare en 

 France sous Tancien regime," 1898. 



French scholars of English have devoted the most of 

 their energies to the modern period which begins with 

 Wyatt and Surrey. Yet students who go abroad with a 

 primary interest in the literature of mediaeval England 

 can nowhere find more congenial surroundings for work 

 than at the University of Paris, where the spirit of GASTON 

 PARIS, the prince of mediaevalists, still lingers, and where 

 the most eminent of his pupils, such men as JEANROY 

 and BEDIER, are publishing mediaeval studies that arouse 

 the attention of the entire world of letters. LEGOUIS' 

 "Chaucer," 1912, which in the English translation by 

 Lailavoix has become a standard book of reference in our 

 college courses in Chaucer, is an example of French work 

 in the older period of English A good specimen of a 

 French thesis in this field is Miss SPURGEON'S "Chaucer 

 devant la critique en Angleterre et en France depuis son 

 temps jusqu' a nos jours," 1911. 



In literary criticism of the Modern English period, 

 the French surpass every other foreign nation. It is 

 advantageous for a student of English to learn to look 

 at our literature sometimes from a foreign point of view, 



