The supplanting of Italy by France 240 Brilliancy of the French representatives 241 Malherbe 242 The _Commentary on Desportes_ 244 What can be said for his criticism 246 Its defects stigmatised at once by Regnier 247 His _Ninth Satire_ 247 The contrast of the two a lasting one 249 The diffusion of seventeenth century criticism 250 Vaugelas 251 Balzac 252 His Letters 252 His critical Dissertations 253 Ogier and the Preface to _Tyr et Sidon_ 254 Chapelain: the hopelessness of his verse 257 The interest of his criticism 257 The _Sentiments de l’Académie sur le Cid_ 258 Prefaces 259 _Sur les Vieux Romans_ 260 Letters, &c. 261 Corneille 261 The Three _Discourses_ 263 The _Examens_ 263 La Mesnardière—Sarrasin—Scudéry 264 Mambrun 266 Saint-Evremond 268 His critical quality and accomplishment 269 His views on Corneille 270 On Christian subjects, &c. 270 On Ancients and Moderns 270 Gui Patin—his judgment of Browne 272 Tallemant, Pellisson, Ménage, Madame de Sévigné 273 The _Ana_ other than Ménage’s, especially 274 The _Huetiana_ 275 _Valesiana_ 275 _Scaligerana_ 276 And _Parrhasiana_ 276 Patru, Desmarets, and others 277 _Malebranche_ 279