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debacle of 1870. Since our study is not concerned with Taine as an historian of 

 France, but with his method as a critic of Hterature and art, no detailed account 

 of the composition of Les Origines will be attempted here. 



This work originally appeared in six volumes: 



1875 (December). — UAncien Regime, Paris: Hachette, 1876, viii-553 pages. 



1878 (March). — La Revolution, Vol. I: UAnarchie, Paris: Hachette, 1878, 

 iii-467 pages. 



1 88 1 (May). — La Revolution, Vol. 11: La Conquete jacobine, Paris: Hachette, 

 1 88 1, ii-487 pages. 



1884 (November). — La Revolution, Vol. IH: Le Gouvernement revolutionnaire, 

 Paris: Hachette, 1884, iv-646 pages. 



1890 (November). — Le Regime moderne, Vol. I, Paris: Hachette, 1891, 

 iii— 448 pages. 



The concluding volume was published posthumously. 1893 (November). — 

 Z^ Regime moderne, Vol. H, Paris: Hachette, 1893, xv-406 pages. 



In 1899 Hachette reissued L^s Origines in eleven volumes; by that date, the 

 first volume, 'L'Ancien Regime', was in its 23rd edition. 



These volumes were translated into English by John Durand, and published 

 in New York by Henry Holt and Company as they appeared. 



B. SECONDARY WORKS CITEDi 



Since the literature of our subject is enormous, and constantly growing, the 

 follo\ving includes only books and articles which have been referred to in the 

 footnotes. Still, I cannot let this opportunity slip of paying my respects to the 

 important contributions of Dr. I. A. Richards, especially his Principles of 

 Literary Criticism and Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment, from which 

 I have profited and to which reference might frequently have been made in 

 the course of my argument. Though I find his works more suggestive than 

 thorough — more stimulating in their fresh insights which open up new pro- 

 blems and possibilities than systematic in their attempted solutions — it would 

 be difficult to over-estimate their salutary therapeutic effect on the criticism of 

 our generation; and I have tried to indicate in the text to what extent I agree 

 with his position that 'good reading, in the end, is the whole secret of "good 

 judgment".' 



A carefully reasoned discussion of our subject is Professor Herbert Dingle's 

 Science and Literary Criticism (Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1949), which I discovered 

 after completion of my manuscript: Part One includes challenging analyses of 

 the principles of Taine and Dr. Richards. A recent example of superb criticism 

 which preserves a proper balance between textual analysis and biographical- 

 social-historical considerations is Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: dargestellte 

 Wirklichkeit in der Abendlandischen Literatur (The Representation of Reality in 

 Western Literature), chapters of Avhich have appeared in Partisan Review under 



^ Books and briefer references on Taine are prefixed with an asterisk (*). 



