actions, shares

Page 61. 1. 2. le 21 janvier, anniversaiy of the exécution of Louis XVI, who was guillotined on January 21, 1793.

1. 35. la presse x)oiirra manœuvrer, the press will be in working order.

Page 62. 1. 19. Boileau (1636-1711), famous French critic of the seventeenth century, author of the Art Poétique. He played a prominent part in the Querelles des anciens et des modernes, in which he, with La Fontaine and many others, warmly defended the cause of the ' ancients *, i. e. the Greek and Latin writers, in opposition to Perrault and his foUowers, who upheld the ' modems ', i. e. the writers of their own day.

Page 63. 1. 4. Pourvu que je ne m^ento)iille pas dans ce que je veux dire, provided I do not get tied up in my own sentences.

Page 64. l. 15. la température ambiante, the surrounding température.

1. 22. arrive?ît vos cosmétiques, there your cosmetics corne in. 1. 31. Dupuytren (1777-1812j, a famous French surgeon. 1. 32. huiles de faine, de colza, beech-nut oil, râpe oil.

Page 65. 1. 3. les Malaises, the Malays, the dominant race in the Eastern Archipelago. See note to p. 7, 1. 6.

L 5. tout aussi bonne, în^i as good. Note that tout, used as an adverb with a féminine adjective, takes the féminine ending, for the sake of euphony, when standing before a consonant, but remains invariable when standing before a vowel, which allows the preceding t to be sounded, as hère.

Page 66. 1. 21. une méchante gravure, a poor engraving ; méchant because it cannot in itself be a sign of affection. 1. 37. la délivrance du territoire. See note to p. 3, 1. 16.

Page 67. 1. 23. décoré, i. e. décoré de la croix de la Légion d' Honneur.

1. 29. les avaient jetés dans les romans les plus bizarres, had set them spinning the wildest romances.

Page 68. 1. 6. une bergère, an easy-chair. 1. 15. bon . . . mandat, the chèque.

Page 69. 1. 4. f fille, a rednplication, such as often occurs in the language of children ; cp. dada, horse, and so on.

Page 70. 1. 19. un coup de main! bear a hand !

Page 71. 1. 3. rappoH, shovi for jJar rappofi.

1. 11. V illustre. Gaudissart is the hero of another novel by Balzac, L'illustre Gaudissart, one of the Scènes de la vie de province.

1. 20. metteur en œuvre des inventions marchandes, promoter of commercial inventions.

1. 26. s'était laissé entortiller dans, had allowed himself to be entangled in.

Page 72. 1. 8. un vaudeville, a ballad. The name is derived from the Val de Vire (Valley of the Vire) in Normandy, where Basselin, a Norman poet of the fifteenth century, lived, whose poetry was called after his native place ; Val de Vire was gradually corrupted into Vaudeville. Since the Vaudeville Théâtre was opened in Paris, vaudeville is often used also to designate a kind of light comedy acted there.

1. 30. Paraissez, iKirfnmeurs, coiffeurs et débitants! A parody of the line Paroissez, Navarrais, Mores et Castillans, from Le Cid, Act V, Se. i (see note to p. 95, 1. 39).