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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1905 Excerpt: ... UNIVERSITY COLLEGES: THEIR ORIGIN AND THEIR METHODS.1 I. COMPAYRE' concludes the preface to his new volume in the following words: I trust also, that the literary dictionaries of the future, if they should grant me a place in their pages, will have the goodness when they mention my name to follow it with this notice: Gabriel Compayrd, a French writer, whose least mediocre work, translated into English before being printed, was published in America. We shall add to this notice: The book of which M. Compayrd seems to be so proud is called Abelard, and yet all that the author has to say about Abelard is confined to twenty-five pages. The book really covers the same ground as Mr. Laurie's work, The Rise and Constitution of Universities, and is therefore misnamed. The subject was one upon which the author could make a particularly bright book. 1 Abelard and the Origin and Early History of Universities. By Gabriel Compayre'. New York. 1893. La Sorbonne, ses Origines et sa Bibliotheque. Par Alfred Franklin. Paris. 1875. The University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to the Royal Injunctions of 1535. By J. Bass Mullinger. Cambridge. 1873. A History of the University of Oxford, from the Earliest Times to the Year 1530. By H. C. Maxwell Lyte. London. 1886. De Studiis Literariis Mediolanensum. Auctore Joseph Antonio Saxis. Milan. 1729. Abelard's life, his teachers, his contemporaries, the schools in which he studied, the schools in which he taught, his pupils and his disciples, his doctrines, his methods, his persecutions, his influence--here is matter enough for so many interesting chapters, in which the author need not go over the ground so well tilled by the classic work of M. Remusat. This is the kind of book we had a right to expect from the...