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"Doctoral de 1'Universite de Paris." Studies like these 

 show how well French scholars have guarded their pupils 

 from the pitfalls of inaccuracy and vagueness, and at the 

 same time have stimulated them to sympathetic literary 

 appreciation. 



Instruction at the Universities. The student of 

 English who goes to France will naturally establish him- 

 self at Paris. Here is the great library, the Bibliotheque 

 Nationale, with its 3,000,000 volumes, and 110,000 

 manuscripts, and almost unlimited resources. Other 

 libraries such as the Bibliotheque Mazarine, the Biblio- 

 theque Sainte-Genevieve, the latter in the immediate 

 neighborhood of the Sorbonne, may also interest him as 

 convenient places for all ordinary researches. There is 

 also of course, the library of the Sorbonne itself, with its 

 "salle de travail" and numerous special collections. 



In the Faculte des Lettres, LEGOUIS and CAZAMIAN lec- 

 ture regularly on some special topic in English literature 

 with appropriate "conferences" and exercises. In 1914-15 

 Legouis lectured on The Life and Work of Edmund Spen- 

 ser, and Cazamian on Special Topics relating to the His- 

 tory of Civilization in England. Beside, the works above 

 mentioned, Cazamian has written, "Carlyle," 1913, and 

 "L' Angle terre moderne, son evolution," 1914. HUCHON, 

 author of "George Crabbe," 1907, also lectures on The 

 History of the English Language and Its Anglo-Saxon 

 Origins, with a "conference" in which an Anglo-Saxon text 

 is read. 



The student of English will naturally take also courses 

 relating to his special interests. If he is pursuing the 

 comparative study of literature, he will follow the lectures 

 of BALDENSPERGER, author of various books, as for ex- 

 ample: "La Litterature, Creation, Succes, Duree," 1913. 

 If he is investigating the mediaeval field, he will hear 



