Pages choisies des Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon

1PAGES CHOISIESMémoires du duc de Saint-Simon.EDITED AND ANNOTATED BYA. N. VAN DAELL,Late Director of Modern Languages in THE Boston HiqhAND Latin Schools, Professor of Modern Languages,Massachusetts Institute of Technology.oîOîcBOSTON, U.S.A. :PUBLISHED BY GINN & COMPANY.1902.Eotervd, srcordinR to Act of In thr rc«r ISW,ConirTT**, byA. X. VAX DAKl-L.in ibc Ofllcc of ihu at WanhlDiflon.LIbnrima of Conio't'M,All UiuiiTH Rbuihvbo.t ? rrannia Itorrox.TTrooRAmT ht ft Co., L'^JLPREFACE.address in this préface not only the teachers oxI wisH tonot présume to write in anyFrench (in that case I wouldlanguage but my own), but others also who as principals orwithin any différent capacity hâve something to do thechoice of text-books.study of a foreign language ought to bring studentsTheforeign nations. Stu-in contact with the master-minds ofand feelings with which thedents ought to grasp ideaswriters of their own nationality cannot make them ac-it seems to mequainted. Unless this resuit be obtained,given French or German is wasted, or thatthat the time toit could surely be employed in a more profitable mariner.Not that Americans ought to become imitation Frenchmen;no one, more than I, would deprecate any attempt in thatdirection. But few minds are large enough by nature notto need the broadening influence of some foreign culture;and it has always seemed to me that the English and Frenchliteratures are particularly well fitted to balance other ...