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J.M.S.
CHAPTER I
ORIGINS—THE MIDDLE AGES
CHAPTER II
THE RENAISSANCE
CHAPTER III
THE AGE OF TRANSITION
CHAPTER IV
THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV
CHAPTER V
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER VI
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
CHAPTER VII
THE AGE OF CRITICISM
CONCLUSION
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF AUTHORS AND THEIR PRINCIPAL WORKS
I. Middle Ages
II. Renaissance
III. Age of Transition
IV. Age of Louis XIV
V. Eighteenth Century
VI. Nineteenth Century —I
VII. Nineteenth Century —II
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
INDEX