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Initiation into Literature by Émile Faguet
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INITIATION INTO LITERATURE

BY

EMILE FAGUET

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY

SIR HOME GORDON, BART.




The Translator begs to acknowledge with appreciation the courtesy of the
Author in graciously consenting to make some valuable additions, at his
request, specially for the English version.




PREFACE


This volume, as indicated by the title, is designed to show the way to
the beginner, to satisfy and more especially to excite his initial
curiosity. It affords an adequate idea of the march of facts and of
ideas. The reader is led, somewhat rapidly, from the remote origins to
the most recent efforts of the human mind.

It should be a convenient repertory to which the mind may revert in order
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