French profiles
By: By Edmund Gosse
Publisher: William Heinemann
Published: 1905
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: French literature; History and criticism
Notes: First ed.; cf. E. Charteris, The life and letters of Sir Edmund Gosse, p. 515.

The last chapter, which is not in any sense a profile, was published, in a French translation made by Henry D. Davray, in the Mercure de France and then as a separate brochure. The profiles are reprinted in part from the Fortnightly Review, the Contemporary Review, the International Quarterly Review, the Saturday Review, the Daily Chronicle, and the Cosmopolis. cf. Pref.
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: Alfred de Vigny.; title: Mademoiselle Aïssé.; title: A nun's love letters.; title: Barbey D'Aurévilly.; title: Alphones Daudet.; title: The short stories of Zola.; title: Ferdinand Fabre.; title: A first sight of Verlaine.; title: The irony of M. Anatole France.; title: Pierre Loti.; title: Some recent books of M. Paul Bourget.; title: M. René Bazin.; title: M. Henri de Régnier.; title: Four poets: Stéphane Mallarmé, M. Émile Verhaeren, Albert Samain, M. Paul Fort.; title: The influence of France upon English poetry.; title: Index.