"Based on a series of six lectures ... delivered under the title of 'The literary relations of England and France during the sixteenth cent ury,' before the University of Oxford during the summer term of 1909."

Preface. - Chronological table of leading events. - book I. The debt of Tudor culture to France.- book II. French influence on English lite rature, 1500 - 1550.- book III. French influence on Elizabethan prose. - book IV. French influence on the Elizabethan lyric.- book V. The mess age of the Huguenots.- book VI. French influence on Elizabethan drama.- Appendix : I. Additional specmens of Elizabethan poetry which are borr owed wihout acknowledgement from contemporary French sources.- II. Geor ge Chapman and Giles Durant.- Index.