Emile Legouis here presents a new Survey of the whote history of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. As the work of a French scholar of the highest, distinction, carried out with characteristic French acutenessi and lucidity ofstatement, it has outstading value for English readers. Attention is focused upon the greater writers, but Professor Legouis has succeeded in presenting a consecutive view of the main course of development and leading characteristics of every period of English literature. Within a framework of division by period, the treatment follows the subject division of poetry, prose and the drama.