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THE following study is one of a very few, as far as the writer's knowledge goes, full-length lives of Maurice de Saxe in English.

Much of the material is new to English readers; the translations are, all of them, taken direct from the originals and have not, as far as can be ascertained, been translated before.

There is no fiction or invented romance in this biography; the life and character of the hero, his contemporaries and his background have been kept as close to fact as possible; legends and picturesque embroideries have been avoided—the subject needs none.

Besides the books given in the bibliography, much material has been gathered from articles in French periodicals and the journals of learned societies. This is especially the case with regard to Adrienne de Lecouvreur and Madame Favart. Some use has been made of an early study of the same subject by the present writer now long out of print.

George R. Preedy.