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| | The Nation, 03/18/1869 - Current French Literature |
 | | ...CURRENT FRENCH LITERATURE* THE author of " La Vie de Christophe Colomb," the Abbf'- Eugene Cadoret, was for many years a chaplain in the French navy, and appears, from his own statements, to have been attracted to the subject of his present work through tastes and associations partly maritime, partly ecclesiastical... |
 | | ...His new book, "Histoire de la Litteratnre Grecqne," is a full and satisfactory history of Greek literature from its infancy down to the year 553 of the Christian era... |
 | | ...Elegiac, Iambic, -ZEolian, Dorian, and Ionian poetry, the literature of the period of Pericles and of the Peloponnegian War, the poets and historiana of the Macedonian and Alexandrine periods, have already been so profusely and BO admirably commented upon, that M. Burnouf adds but little to what knowledge has long been accessible... |
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