PUBLISHERS' NOTE.

This volume completes a uniform edition of all works
written by M. Taine which are translated into English.
A list of them is given on the page facing the title.
The present volume also completes, by the publication
of the treatise, hitherto untranslated, upon the Philo¬
sophy of Art in Italy, all that M. Taine has written
directly upon the subject of art. These works—origi¬
nally lectures—include, beside those in this volume,
treatises on the general principles of the Philosophy of
Art and the Ideal in Art, and appear in tl»i 3 edition as
the first series of " Lectures on Art."

Uniform with this edition, the pnbVisiierr- expect to
issue, early in 1876, the first work of a series which M.
Taine is now writing on the influences which have
developed the present state of French society and
politics, and which he includes under the general title
oi " Les Origines de la France Contemj>oraine." The
first work is upon the Ancien Regime. It will be
followed by one upon the Revolution, and others bring¬
ing the discussion up to the present time.

NOV-ICUBEH,   1875.