Abstract

Studies in French Literature

This article focuses on the books "Sources of the Religious Elements in Flaubert's Salammhô" written by Arthur Hamilton "Etude sur "Pathelin"," written by Richard T. Holbrook and "Voltaire on the English Stage," written by H. L. Bruce. These studies in the Romance languages and literatures are written, edited and printed with great care. Hamilton's sound parallel passages demonstrate that Flaubert rarely copied that he frequently condensed, giving an epitome of his source that he had a way of "combining notes from a variety of works," and especially that he embellished the original by using his well-known resources of recadenced style and appropriate imagery. The book written by Holbrook contains the disjecta membra of a critical edition.