[884]. La Critique Scientifique (Paris, 1888), followed by Études de Crit. Scient., in two series (1889 and 1890). I am under the impression that Hennequin owed something—perhaps a good deal—to Mr H. M. Posnett’s Comparative Literature (London, 1886), a book which, for the usual reason, escapes our survey. It may, however, be observed that “Comparative Literature” is a very awkward phrase, neither really representing “Littérature Comparée” nor really analogous to “Comparative Anatomy.” “Comparative Study of Literature” would be all right: otherwise “Comparative Criticism” or “Rhetoric” is wanted.
[885]. La Critique Scientifique, p. 29.
[886]. This appeared in 1895; Études de Littérature Européenne followed three years later, and La Littérature Comparée in 1900. The contributions to Petit de Julleville have been noticed (ii. 528. note).
[887]. For more on it, and on another kind of it, see below on the late Karl Hillebrand.
[889]. A good example of his literary work is La Fin du 18ième Siècle (2 vols., Paris, 1880). He speaks of Diderot as un essayiste à la façon Anglaise, which is complimentary—and instructive.
[890]. Histoire de la Jeune Allemagne, Littérature Étrangère, Drames et Romans de la Vie Littéraire, &c.
[891]. Montégut (v. sup., p. [445]) thought better of him.
[893]. The posthumous Épisodes Littéraires (Paris, 1890) contrasts very pleasantly with too many utterances “d’Outre-Tombe.”