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 1 66 RECENT FOREIGN LITERATURE. among the poets of France. Added to his feeling for the ancient legends and the natural beauty of his native district, was the desire to restore the Provenfal language ' selon ses traditions et caradteres nation- aux.' For this purpose he founded with others (in 1854) the society known as the Felibrige. Son of a prosperous farmer who married a woman of the people, educated at a small school at Avignon, and then a student of law at Aix, he died where he was born, at Maillane, not very far from Aries. He took a large part in founding the very interesting Proven9al Museum at Aries. The following recently published books deserve attention : Weissgrundige Attische Lethyken nach Adolf Furtwanglers Auswahl bearbeitet von Walter Riezler mit Beitragen. Von Rudolf Hackl. Romische Forschungen der Biblioteca Hertziana. Die Portraitdarstellungendes Michelangelo. Edited by Ernst Steinmann. Geschichte der Gartenkunst von Marie Luise Gothein. Vol. I. Von Agypten bis zur Renais- sance in Italien, Spanien und Portugal. Vol. II. Von der Renaissance in Frankreich bis zur Gegenwart. Three sumptuous volumes fully illustrated with fine examples of artistic reproduction. The first, which is published with the assistance of the Thereianos-Stiftung of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, is particularly beautiful. Anthologie de la Chanson fran9aise. Par Pierre Vrignault. A delightful collection from Bertrand de Born to Xavier Privas.