42 MACMILLAN'S CATALOGUE OF 



Besant. STUDIES IN EARLY FRENCH POETRY. By 



WALTER BESANT, M.A. Crown 8vo. 8^. 6d. 



A sort of impression rests on most minds that French literature begins 

 with the "siJcle de Louis Quatorze;" any previous literature being 

 for the most part unknown or ignored. Few know anything of the 

 enormous literary activity that began in the thirteenth century, was 

 carried on by Rtilebeuf, Marie de France, Gaston de Foix, Thibault 

 de Champagne, and Lorris ; was fostered by Charles of Orleans, 

 by Margaret of Valois, by Francis the First; that gave a croivd of 

 versifiers to France, enriched, strengthened, developed, and fixed the 

 French language, and prepared the way for Corneille and for 

 Racine. The present work aims to afford information and direction 

 touching these early efforts of France in poetical literature. ' 'In one 

 moderately sized volume he has contrived to introduce us to the very 

 best, if not to all of the early French poets" ATHEN^UM. 

 " 'Industry, the insight of a scholar, and a genuine enthusiasm for 

 his subject, combine to make it of very considerable value." 

 SPECTATOR. 



Helfenstein (James). A COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR 



OF THE TEUTONIC LANGUAGES : Being at the same 

 time a Historical Grammar of the English Language, and com- 

 prising Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, Early English, Modern English, 

 Icelandic (Old Norse), Danish, Swedish, Old High German, 

 Middle High German, Modern German, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, 

 and Dutch. By JAMES HELFENSTEIN, Ph.D. 8vo. i8.r. 



This work traces the different stages of development through which the 

 various Teutonic languages have pas fed, and the laws which have 

 regulated their growth. The reader is thiis enabled to sttidy the 

 relation which these languages bear to one another, and to the Eng- 

 lish language in particular, to which special attention is devoted 

 throughout. In the chapters on Ancient and Middle Teutonic 

 languages no grammatical form is omitted the knowledge of which 

 is required for the study of ancient literature, whether Gothic or 

 Anglo-Saxon or Early English. 7b each chapter is prefixed a 

 sketch showing the relation of the Teutonic to the cognate languages, 

 Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit. Those who have mastered the book 

 will be in a position to proceed with intelligence to the more elaborate 

 works of Grimm, Bopp, Pott, Schleicher, and others. 



