Alfred de Vigny.--Mademoiselle Aïssé.--A nun's love letters.--Barbey D'Aurevilly.--Alphones Daudet.--The short stories of Zola.--Ferdinand Fabre.--A first sight of Verlaine.--The irony of M. Anatole France.--Pierre Loti.--Some recent books of M. Paul Bourget.--M. René Bazin.--M. Maurice Barrès.--M. Henri de Régnier.--Four poets: Stéphane Mallarmé, M. Emile Verhaeren, Albert Samain, M. Paul Fort.--The influence of France upon English poetry.--Appendix: Mallarmé and symbolism.