BIBLIOGRAPHY.--The subject of the bibliography of Corneille was treated in the most exhaustive manner by M. E. Picot in his _Bibliographie Cornélienne_ (Paris, 1875-1876). Less elaborate, but still ample information may be found in J. A. Taschereau's _Vie_ and in M. Marty-Laveaux's edition of the _Works_. The individual plays were usually printed a year or two after their first appearance: but these dates have been subjected to confusion and to controversy, and it seems better to refer for them to the works quoted and to be quoted. The chief collected editions in the poet's lifetime were those of 1644, 1648, 1652, 1660 (with important corrections), 1664 and 1682, which gives the definitive text. In 1692 T. Corneille published a complete _Théâtre_ in 5 vols. 12mo. Numerous editions appeared in the early part of the 18th century, that of 1740 (6 vols. 12mo, Amsterdam) containing the _OEuvres diverses_ as well as the plays. Several editions are recorded between this and that of Voltaire (12 vols. 8vo; Geneva, 1764, 1776, 8 vols. 4to), whose _Commentaires_ have often been reprinted separately. In the year IX. (1801) appeared an edition of the _Works_ with Voltaire's commentary and criticisms thereon by Palissot (12 vols. 8vo, Paris). Since this the editions have been extremely numerous. Those chiefly to be remarked are the following. Lefèvre's (12 vols. 8vo, Paris, 1854), well printed and with a useful variorum commentary, lacks bibliographical information and is disfigured by hideous engravings. Of Taschereau's, in the _Bibliothèque elzévirienne_, only two volumes were published. Lahure's appeared in 5 vols. (1857-1862) and 7 vols. (1864-1866). The edition of Ch. Marty-Laveaux in Regnier's _Grands Écrivains de la France_ (1862-1868), in 12 vols. 8vo, is still the standard. In appearance and careful editing it leaves nothing to desire, containing the entire works, a lexicon, full bibliographical information, and an album of illustrations of the poet's places of residence, his arms, some title-pages of his plays, facsimiles of his writings, &c. Nothing is wanting but variorum comments, which Lefèvre's edition supplies. Fontenelle's life of his uncle is the chief original authority on that subject, but Taschereau's _Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de P. Corneille_ (1st ed. 1829, 2nd in the _Bibl. elzévirienne_, 1855) is the standard work. Its information has been corrected and augmented in various later publications, but not materially. Of the exceedingly numerous writings relative to Corneille we may mention the _Recueil de dissertations sur plusieurs tragédies de Corneille et de Racine_ of the abbé Granet (Paris, 1740), the criticisms already alluded to of Voltaire, La Harpe and Palissot, the well-known work of Guizot, first published as _Vie de Corneille_ in 1813 and revised as _Corneille et son temps_ in 1852, and the essays, repeated in his _Portraits littéraires_, in _Port-Royal_, and in the _Nouveaux Lundis_ of Sainte-Beuve. More recently, besides essays by MM. Brunetière, Faguet and Lemaître and the part appurtenant of M. E. Rigal's work on 16th century drama in France, see Gustave Lanson's "Corneille" in the _Grands Écrivains français_ (1898); F. Bouquet's _Points obscurs et nouveaux de la vie de Pierre Corneille_ (1888); _Corneille inconnu_, by J. Levallois (1876); J. Lemaître, _Corneille et la poétique d'Aristote_ (1888); J. B. Segall, _Corneille and the Spanish Drama_ (1902); and the recently discovered and printed _Fragments sur Pierre et Thomas Corneille_ of Alfred de Vigny (1905). On the _Cid_ quarrel E. H. Chardon's _Vie de Rotrou_ (1884) bears mainly on a whole series of documents which appeared at Rouen in the proceedings of the _Société des bibliophiles normands_ during the years 1891-1894. The best-known English criticism, that of Hallam in his _Literature of Europe_, is inadequate. The translations of separate plays are very numerous, but of the complete _Théâtre_ only one version (into Italian) is recorded by the French editors. Fontenelle tells us that his uncle had translations of the _Cid_ in every European tongue but Turkish and Slavonic, and M. Picot's book apprises us that the latter want, at any rate, is now supplied. Corneille has suffered less than some other writers from the attribution of spurious works. Besides a tragedy, _Sylla_, the chief piece thus assigned is _L'Occasion perdue recouverte_, a rather loose tale in verse. Internal evidence by no means fathers it on Corneille, and all external testimony is against it. It has never been included in Corneille's works. It is curious that a translation of Statius (_Thebaid_, bk. iii.), an author of whom Corneille was extremely fond, though known to have been written, printed and published, has entirely dropped out of sight.