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"Classic French Course in English" by William Cleaver Wilkinson is a literary guide published in the late 19th century. This work aims to introduce English-speaking readers to significant French literature, through selected extracts from notable authors, accompanied by critical insights and historical context. The book's intention is to foster appreciation for the richness of French literary tradition while providing a framework for understanding its major contributions. The opening of the text sets the stage by discussing the breadth and uniqueness of French literature, highlighting its brilliance and relevance across various fields, such as eloquence, philosophy, and comedy. Wilkinson emphasizes the particular challenges of compiling a coherent course on such a vast literature that continues to evolve. He lays the groundwork for future explorations of individual authors, suggesting that readers will gain a proportional and trustworthy understanding of French classics through selecte

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The required books of the C. L. S. C. are recommended by a Council of
six. It must, however, be understood that recommendation does not
involve an approval by the Council, or by any member of it, of every
principle or doctrine contained in the book recommended.

ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED
BY RAND, AVERY, & COMPANY.
BOSTON.

PREFACE.

The preparation of the present volume proposed to the author a task more
difficult far than that undertaken in any one of the four preceding
volumes of the group, THE AFTER-SCHOOL SERIES, to which it belongs.
Those volumes dealt with literatures limited and finished: this volume
deals with a literature indefinitely vast in extent, and still in vital
process of growth. The selection of material to be used was, in the case
of the earlier volumes, virtually made for the author beforehand, in a
manner greatly to ease his sense of responsibility for the exercise of
individual judgment and taste. Long prescription, joined to the
winnowing effect of wear and waste through time and chance, had left
little doubt what works of what writers, Greek and Roman, best deserved
now to be shown to the general reader. Besides this, the prevalent
custom of the schools of classical learning could then wisely be taken
as a clew of guidance to be implicitly followed, whatever might be the
path through which it should lead. There is here no similar avoidance of
responsibility possible; for the schools have not established a custom,
and French literature is a living body, from which no important members
have ever yet been rent by the ravages of time.

The greater difficulty seen thus to inhere already in the nature itself
of the task proposed for accomplishment, was gravely increased by the
much more severe compression deemed to be in the present instance
desirable.

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