Excerpt from An Introduction to the Study of Provencal My object in the compilation of this volume is to provide an Introduction, at once easy and comprehensive, for the use of students of Romance Philology and candidates for the Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos at Cambridge, and similar examinations at other Universities. The literary introduction is necessarily little more than a bare enumeration of facts, and in it I have closely followed Bartsch's Grundriss zur Geschichte der provenzalischen Literatur. I am also indebted to the histories of Sismondi, de Laveleye and Fauriel. The Grammar is based upon that of Diez, corrected in matters of detail by the Tableau Sommaire des Flexions provencales in the Chrestomathie of Bartsch. I have used the text of the latter throughout the Selections, which have been chosen so as to exhibit in some degree the wealth of poetical forms possessed by the Troubadours. I should advise the student to read the selected pieces in the...