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also have useful libraries of reference. Paris is especially 

 rich in museums of historical interest, notably the 

 unique riches of the Louvre, the Musee de Cluny, the 

 museum of Comparative Sculpture at the Trocadero, 

 and the Musee Carnavalet, where the history of Paris 

 from the earliest times is unrolled before the visitor. 

 Finally, Paris itself is full of history, from the baths of 

 the Emperor Julian to the memorials of the present war, 

 and constitutes an unfailing source of inspiration to the 

 intelligent student. 



Provincial Universities. The provincial universities 

 naturally offer fewer opportunities than Paris, but their 

 faculties comprise eminent scholars and teachers, com- 

 petent in many cases to direct work in important his- 

 torical fields outside of the history of France. Several 

 of these universities have special chairs of local or regional 

 history, and they all afford an excellent introduction to 

 French life and thought. 



On the whole it is the advanced student of history, 

 and not the beginner, who will derive most advantage 

 from a sojourn in France, and especially in Paris. The 

 immature youth, who has not yet secured a good grasp 

 of the essential facts of history, who has not received 

 some substantial training in investigation, and has not 

 some clear ideas concerning the nature of historical 

 study and the reasons why he is pursuing it a man 

 of this sort is ill prepared to work wisely amid the mul- 

 tiplicity of special courses and the manifold distractions 

 of the French capital. Thanks to the rapid development 

 of American universities in the past thirty years, it is 

 no longer necessary to cross the Atlantic in order to begin 

 one's historical apprenticeship, or even, in some lines, 

 in order satisfactorily to complete it; and there can be 



