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siiljjoined list will show, all his dramatic productions 

 from others of the same countrj', 



1. " Le Laquais, published fpr the first time in 1579. 

 Imitated from II Ragazzo, Comedia di M. Lodovico Efojce. 

 In Vinegia. 1539. 8»." 



2. " La Veuve, 1579. — La Vedova, Comedia facetissima 

 di M. Nicolb Buonaparte, citt^dino Fiorontino. In Tio- 

 renza, appresso i Giunti. 1568. 8"." 



3. " Les Esprits, 1579. — Arjdosio, Comedia del Signor 

 Lorenzino de' Medici. In Firenze, appresso i Giunti. 

 1605. 8°." 



4. " Le Morfondu, 1579. — La Gelosia, Comedia (in the 

 Comedie of A. Grazini, academico Fiorentino, detto il 

 Lasca). Venetia, appresso Berpardo Qiunti et Fratelli. 

 1587. 8"." 



5. " Les Jalou?:, 1579. — I Gelosi, Comedia di M. Vin- 

 cenzo Gabiani, Gentilhnomo e Academico Bresciano. 

 Vinegia, appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari. 1550. 12"." 



6. " Les Escolliers, 1579. — La Zecca, Comedia piacevole 

 e ridicolosa de M. Girolamo Razzi. Vinegia, 1602. 8°." 



The above six plays obtained great success, and went 

 through several editions. 



7. "La Constance, 1611. — La Gostanza, Comedia di 

 Girolamo Razzi. In Firenze, appresso i Giunti, 1565. S".'* 



8. " La Fidfele, 1611. — II Fedele, Comedia del claris- 

 simo M. Luigi Pasqualigo. In Venetia, appresso Fran- 

 cesco Ziletti. 1579. 8o." 



9. " Les Tromperies, 1611. — Gl' Inganni, Cpmedia ^el 

 Signor N. S. (Sechi). In Florenza, appresso i Giunti. 

 1562. 8"." 



Onlj' one edition of these three comedies is known: 

 copies of it fetch extravagant prices. 



If Larivey was merelj' an imitator, and in sonje in- 

 stances even a translator, other poets in their turn have 

 borrowed from his works, Molifere more particularly. 



After Larivey, we find (vol. vii.) Tournebue's Les Con- 

 tens : Les Nectpnlitaines, a comedy by Francois d'Anjj 

 boise, better known as the editor of Abelard's works ; Les 

 D^guisSs, by Jean Gpdard, — this is one of the prettiest 

 French plays written during the sixteenth century; La 

 nouvelte Tragi- comique, by Lasphrise. Captain Lasphrise 

 was a soldier by profession, and by birth a Gascon. Like 

 Georges de Scudery, his fellow-countryman, he was 

 prouder of his courage than of his talents for versification, 

 and his comedy is extremely amusing on account of the 

 humour with which it is full. 



Vol. viii. (Notices by M. Jannet ) — Tyr et Sidon, Tra- 

 qi-cnmedie divisee en deux Joiirnees, par Jean de Schelandre. 

 Production of a Protestant writer, and remarkable for the 

 boldness of the conception, the originality of the character, 

 and the vigour of the style. Schelandre died in 1635. 

 The first edition of his tragi-comedy was published in 

 1608, under the name of Daniel d'Anchferes; second edi- 

 tion, 1628. — Les Cnrrivaiix, Comedie facetieiise de Cinven- 

 tion de Pierre Troterel, Sieur d'Aves. Besides the play, 

 published for the first time in 1612, Troterel has composed 

 several others, the list of which is given by Brunet, Man. 

 du Lib.,iv. 522. — U Impuissance, Tragi-comedie pastorale, 

 par le Sieur Veronnenu. Blaisois, 1635 ; a few amusing 

 scenes, especially the third of the Fourth Act, the leading 

 idea of which reminds us of Shakspeare's introduction to 

 The Taming of the Shrew. — AUzon, ComSdie : a curious 

 picture of the French bourgeoisie about the middle of the 

 seventeenth century. The author calls himself L. C. 

 Discret ; but this is evidently a pseudonymous appellation. 



Vol. ix. (Notices bj' M. .Tannet.) — La Comedie des Pro- 

 verhes, by Adrien de Montluc, grandson of the celebrated 

 Blaise, Slarshal de Montluc. This play, probabl.v cofn- 

 posed as early as 1616, is interesting, especially from a 

 colloquial point of view. It is made up of two thousand 

 proverbs tacked together somewhat at random. — La 

 Comedie des Chnnsong, ascribed to various authors, is still 



more striking ; it contains an immense number of snatches 

 of old songs popular during the seventeenth century, and 

 illustrating the customs and literature of that epoch. — 

 La Comedie des Comedies, traduite d'ltalien en Langage de 

 I'Orateur Frangois par le Sieur du Pechier, 1629. (It is 

 also a fictitious designation, concealing, according to 

 Charles Sorel, a nephew of the Jesuit Sirmond. by name 

 De Barry.") Amusing parody on the pompous and turgid 

 style of Balzac. — La. Comedie des VomMiens, Tragi-co- 

 medie par le Sieur Gougenot, 1633 : a most curious docu- 

 ment on the history of the French stage. It is, remarks 

 M. Jannet, "un guide qui I'introduira dans les coulisses, 

 qui lui expliquera ce qui se passe de I'autre cot^ du rideau." 

 — Le Galimatias, de Sieur Derozier Beaulieu, tragi-co- 

 m^die, 1639 (probably pseudonj'mous). Five acts of in- 

 coherent and high-sounding nonsense. 



Vol. X. M. Jannet has devoted a concluding volume of 

 his collection of plays to a glossary, which is not the least 

 •important part of the work. The student can trace in it 

 the progress of the French language from the Middle 

 Ages to the time of Corneille ; and as most of the works 

 included in the Bihliotheque Ehevirienne are illustrated 

 with a similar " Index Verborum et Lectionum,'* the re- 

 union of these vocabularies, in course of time, will form a 

 complete Etymological and Historical Dictionary of the 

 greatest value. Gustave Masson. 



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