SE 127731 COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY TYPOGRAPHY BY MARSH, AITKEN & CURTIS COMPANY, CHICAGO mi 1901 •4 PREFACE his edition of Le Misanthrope and L'Avare aims cially at presenting them as literature, at helping student to understand and appreciate the genius Molière and to see why he occupies so high a place ng the classics of the world. This will explain the ewhat unusual fulness of the introduction, which s to accommodate Molière, the most typical repreative of the esprit gaulois, to the angle of vision of American student, whose culture is based entirely Anglo-Saxon literature, traditions, and thought. The character of the notes is influenced by the same sideration. Grammatical discussion and erudite mentary have alike been avoided. On the other d, liberal help has been supplied for the elucidation all difficulties, allusions, and unusual or unmodern ds and expressions occurring in the text. The e general criticism of the introduction is now and n supplemented by special criticism of given pases, or by literary parallelisms, designed to give the lent a timely reminder of what he is so apt to forget— at he is not only learning a language, but is studying rature, and must continually keep his faculties of reciation and judgment alive to its excellence and to limitations. |