6 NOVEMBER 1897, Page 29

PROFESSOR DOWDEN'S "HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Sezcrkroa."] SIR,—Will you allow me to protest against the very commoi error from which your reviewer of Professor Dowden's "History of French Literature" does not escape? No French- man would call La Rochefoucauld, Rochefouca.uld, any more than he would Lamartine. Martine, or La Fontaine, Fontaine; and this inveterate English habit must sound as fantastic in our neighbours' ears as the " s " at the end of "le gros Wil-

liams" does in ours.-1 am, Sir, &c, S. M. J.