248 BIBLIOGRAPHY 



For the purposes of this study, all page references have been to the 'Uniform 

 Library Edition' of Taine's Works, published in New York by Henry Holt and 

 Company, as follows (in the order of their appearance in our Bibliography) : 



A Tour Through the Pyrerues (tr. J. S. Fiske), 1876, 349 pages. 



History of English Literature (tr. H. van Laun), in 2 vols., 1882, 620 and 

 658 pages. 



Notes on Paris (tr. J. A. Stevens), 1879, 372 pages. 



Italy: Rome and Naples (tr. J. Durand), Fourth Edition, 363 pages. 



Italy: Florence and Venice (tr. J. Durand), 1883, 385 pages. 



Lectures on Art (tr. J. Durand), First Series, 1883, 354 pages; Second Series, 

 1884, 540 pages. 



On Intelligence (tr. T. D. Haye), in 2 vols., 1884, 266 and 289 pages. 



Notes on England (tr. W. F. Rae), 1885, 377 pages. 



The Ancient Regime (tr. J. Durand), 1885, 421 pages. 



The French Revolution (tr. J. Durand), in 3 vols., 1878, 356 pages; 1885, 358 

 pages; 1885, 509 pages. 



In all other cases the French edition used has been specified. All other 

 translations in the text and footnotes are by this author and, unless listed in 

 Chapter II, Note 2, are designated 'S.J. K.' 



1852 (July)- 1 853 (February) 



La Fontaine et ses fables [La Fontaine and His Fables] 



First mentioned as a thesis topic on 17 July, 1852 {V. & C, I, 289), and 

 finished by 19 February, 1853 {V. & C, I, 325). The materials for this study 

 had been gathered as part of Taine's studies for the 'agregation' in letters 

 {V. & C, I, 308), for which he had been preparing since the beginning of 

 1852, shortly after the Coup d'etat and abolition of the 'agregation' in philosophy. 



1853 (May). — Essai sur les fables de La Fontaine, these pour le doctorat es 

 lettres presentee a la Faculte de Paris par H. Taine, licencie es lettres, ancien 

 eleve de I'ficole normale, Paris: Vve Joubert, 1853, 200 pages. 



The 2nd edition (1854) was the only one which included the following pre- 

 face: 'Le lecteur dira: Ceci n'est pas un essai sur les fables de La Fontaine. 

 En effet, c'est une etude sur le Beau, et bien pis, une these de Sorbonne. De la 

 les raisonnements, les abstractions, le systeme; la poesie est en fort mauvaise 

 compagnie. Si parmi les syllogismes croissent quelques pauvres fleurs, c'est la 

 faute ou le merite de La Fontaine; ou n'en ferait-il pas naitre? Allez dans la 

 cour humide du triste et regulier monument, vous verrez des volubilis et des 

 giroflees demi-fletries grimper le long d'une croisee grillee et du mur verdi 

 d'ou I'eau suinte. On n'en doit pas demander de plus belles a la critique. 

 Lisez d'ailleurs I'inscription que nous mettons sur la porte: Salle de Doctoral 

 (Giraud, Essai sur Taine, p. i6i). 



The 3rd edition (Paris: Hachette, 1861) bore the book's present title and was 

 prefaced as follows: 'Ce livre, comme le Voyage aux Pyr^n^es, a 6t6 refondu et 



