L. 7, 1. 24. Ivresse — L. ebrius. Comp. brebis, vervex

P, 7, 1.31. Auprès de lui — compared ■with him. Cf. Eve and Baudiss Fr. Gr., p. 170.

P. 8, 1.10. yliissx— accordingly — aliudsic. Comp. aliud tantum — autant and the archaic autel — aliud taie. For the interchange of l and u comp. haut, altus ; autre, alter ; aube, albus, etc.

P, 8, 1. 27. Qu'il avait prise — Why not pris ? When the past part. with avoir is preceded by the word it governs (its "nearer object") it agrées with that word in gender and number.

P. 8, L 29. Tout en avançant — as he proceeded (cf. p. 4, 1. 19, n.) ; lit., aU. in advancing. Compare with this quasi redundant use of tout, our poetical usage of " ail."

P. 9, 1. 3. Au vieillard marchant à peine, une place d.ans la voiture qui passait — for the old man, walking with difficulty, a place in the carriage which was passing. The construction of this passage is exactly similar to the common use in Latin of the dativus commodi ; for the French use of the prep. « [à la, au) supplies the place of a dative, just as our /or in English.

P. 9, 1. 7. Passait du rôle d^ange gardien à celui d'archange — passed from the character of guardian angel to that of archangel. Rôle — L. rotula, by omission of the t, as père, pater ; mère, mater; frère, frater, etc. The rôle is the extract from the drama which an actor has to commit to memory, hence the part or character which he has to play.

P. 9, 1. 9. Ainsi il châtiait le soldai a l'air fanfaron, par un coup de vent, qui emportait son feutre à la rivière — thus he punished the soldier with the strutting air, by a gust of wind which carried his beaver into the river. Chltier—lj. castigare. For the change of c into ch comp. chien, canis ;' chaleur, calor, etc. For omission of the s, bête, bestia ; côte, costa, etc.

P. 9, 1. 12. Le marchand prodigue de coups de fouet — the merchant

[too] free with his whip : lit.,lavish with the strokes of his whip.

170 XOTES.

p. 9,1. 13. Letihdado,quilui semblait regarder trop dédaigneusement les 2>iétons du haut de son carrosse — tlie noWeman wlio seeined to be looking at the pedestrians too disdainfuUy from the top of liis carriage. Piéton — the termination on is for the luost part used to indicate persons with référence to theii* employments or trades, as foulon, espion, bûcheron.

P. 9, 1. 18. Selon qu'un air venait à lui, etc. — according as [any one's] air happened to suit or displease him.

P. 9, 1. 25. On se trouvait aiix, etc. It was one of the most beautiful days of summer. Lit., One found oneself, etc.

P. 9, 1. 26. Retentir. N.B. This word has nothing to do -n-ith "tenere", but is derived from the fréquentative tintinnare. Compare fendre, findere ; trente, triginta.

P. 9, 1. 27. Des bûcherons, campés dans des huttes de feuillage débitaient le bois abattu — some foresters encamped in their huts of branches were stripping, etc. Note the force of the imperfect.

P. 9, 1. 31. Il régulariserait cette exploitation d'après certaines idées qui hd étaient particulières — he would managethis icoodfelling according to certain ideas of his own.

P. 10, 1. 2. n traça même au crayon — he even sketched in pencil. Crayon — pencil, from craie — chalk, L. creta. Comp. soie, seta; vieux, vêtus, etc.

P. 10, 1. 3. Le plan d'un hameau forestier qui devait unir l'aisance au pittoresque — the plan of a forest hamlet which should unité comfort with picturesqueness.

P. 10, 1. 6. Miexix entendues — better ordered.

P. 10, 1. 14. Et qu'il défricherait des bruyères pour en faire des champs de grains — and that he would clear away some of the heath and turn it into cornfîelds.

P. 10,1. 16. Il en était là de ses 2:)rojets de nouveau propriétaire — he was at this point with his schemes as nevr proprietor. The en must be looked upon as referring to the point of time. Compare " inde loci" in Lucret. Y., 1. 443, where see Mum-o's note.

P. 10, 1. 22. Andalous — Andalusian ; of Andalusia, a province in Spain, so named from the Vandals.

P. 10, 1. 23. Ayant mis à Ve.ramiiier, etc. — having used the time in looking at him which he ought to hâve employed, etc.

P. 11, 1. 25. P^iisq^i'il en est ainsi, etc. — since that is the case I wish you tobe on the ground. See Eve and Baudiss Fr. Gr.,p. 159.

P. 11, 1. 27. A l'instant m'nie l'alezan se cabra et jeta hrusqiiement le jeune seigneur sur l'herbe — at that very moment the horse reared and threw the young lord on the grass. Alezan, chestnut, an Arabie word.

P. 12, 1. 9. Comment tu sais fen servir — how you can use it.

P. ]2, 1. 10. Qui dégaina la sienne — who unsheathed his. La sienne. " The disj. poss. pronouns are never used with nouns, and alwayshave the article le, la, les." In English the disjunctive possessive pronouns are mine, thine, yours, theirs, onrs, hers.

P. 12, 1. 18. Susceptible de — the adj. susceptible is very rarely used ercept of persons.

P. 12, 1. 24. En joxiajit jusqu'au bout son rôle — by playing his par to the end.

P. 12, 1. 26. Ajouta qu'il ne lui en gardait nulle rancune — added that he bore him no gi-udge for it (on account of it).

P. 12, 1. 29. Enfourcha — bestrode. L. furca, cf. bouche, bucca.

P, 13, 1. 13. Aussi en traversant le village, faillit-il assommer un muletier qui ne se rangeait point assez vite — thus in passing through the village, he was nearly linocking down a muleteer, ■who did not get qaickly enough out of his way. En traversant. Cf. p. 5, 1. 9, n.

P. 13, 1. 15. Une marée montante — a flowing tide. Marée basse — lowwater. Marée haute — high water. Grandes marées — spring tides. Marée morte — neap tide.

P. 13, 1.17. Château — castellum. -eaw is usually a diminutive termination.

P. 13, 1. 26. Il en serait pour, etc. — It would be ail over with his freaks (lit. expansés) of imagination and with, etc.

P. 14, 1. 3. Faire deux héritages — corne into two fortunes.

P. 14, 1. 17. Pour profiter de la prochaine chasse d'automne — to get the benefit of the next autumn hunting season. Prochaine — L. psope. Compare for the change of p into ch, sache, sapiat; ache, apium; Achères, Appiaria? ; Attichy, Attipiacum.

P. 14, 1. 21. Pour qu'il perdit. The consécutive sentence in French can be expressed in a variety of ways : (1) with the adverbs si, tellement, jusque-la (cf. Kea. L. Gr. § 184); (2) with the pronominal adject. ce and tel (cf. Ken. L. Gr. § 195) ; (3) with a corrélative subst. of the manner or degree, as de sorte, au point, de façon; (4) with pour. In ail thèse cases que is asso-

ciated with tlie verb in the consécutive clause. Compare for the Latin, Ken. L. Gr. § 184 and § 195. For the Greek, Ken. Gr. Gr. § 75.

P. 14,1.21. Jouir — L. gavidere. Comp, jumeau, gtmellns; Anjou, Andegavi.

P. 15, 1. 3. Feu. The dérivation of the word from functus is tempting, but cannot be supported; the history of the word is against such a dérivation. Cf. Brachet's Bict. Etym.

P. 15, 1. 24. Un mauvais sujet — a scapegrace.

P. 16, 1. 3. Elle est toujours au dépourvu — lie is always in difficulties. Elle refers to seigneurie. The French are more accurate than we, who speak of his or her majesty as he or she, taking no account of the majesty as having anything to do with grammar.

P. 16, 1. 14. Mais un x>areil homme est un véritable fléau — such a man is a real scom-ge. Fléau — L. flagellum. Comp. cou, collum ; doux, dulcis.

P. 16, 1. 29. Choir — L. cadere. For interchange of c and ch comp. p. 10, 1. 22, n. For omission of d and change of vowels — credere, croire; videre, voir, etc.

P. 1 7, 1. 2. L'a arraché à sa défaillance, etc. — roused him from his swoon by, etc.

P. 17, 1. 22. Parurent— ■pavaiive.

LE SCULPTEUE DE LA FOEET-NOIEE.

P. 19, 1. 2. Sans être faappé du caractère à lafois.d,oux et sauvage — without being struck with the character, at once sweet and wild.

P. 19, 1. 6. Et où — and in which. Obs. the t in et is never sounded, even when the next word begius with a vowel. Oh refers to inanimate objects, and is equal to dans lequel or i^c-^ lequel. Voici la boîte oit, j'ai mis mes bijoux, i.e., dans laquelle. Là était le lieu où il avait passé, i.e., par lequel. So "ubi" is sometimes found in Latin as an équivalent for the relative. See Cic. pro P. Quint., c. 9. Neque nobis adhuc prœter te quisquam fuit, ubi nostrum jus contra illos obtineremus.

P. 19, 1. 11. Et finissent par n'étreplus qu'une fente de rocher — and end by being nothing more than a rocky gorge (cleft in the rock). Fente — L. findo.

P. 19, 1. 12. Cheval, probable'- not derived from L. caballus, but a Celtic Word, Keffyl — a borse. N.B. Cheveux, capilli.

P. 19, 1. 13. Eau de cerise — kirscbenwasser, a favourite liqueur drunk in France and Germany : it is distilled from cberries, and is principally procured from the Black Forest.

P. 19, 1. 16. Par un étroit sentir — by a naiTOw patb. Etroit — L. strictus. Cf. p. 4, 1. 5, □.

P. 19, 1. 17. L'herbe de ces vallées arrosée par des eaux thermales, pousse à la hauteur des blés toujours verte ondoyante et nuancée de plus de fleurs qu'un savant n'en pourrait classer en un jour — the grass of thèse valleys, watered by the hot springs, grows as high as corn, always green, waving, and variegated with more flowers than a savant could classify in a day. Arrosée — watered, lit. bedewed. L. ros. Nuancée — variegated, lit. "shaded."

P. 19, 1. 20. On dirait un tapis, etc. — one might call it, etc. Dirait is the ' conditional' ; équivalent to the potential in Latin. See Public Schools Lat. Ex., p. 166, and foot note.

P. 20, 1. 1. De loin en loin — at distant intervais.

P. 20, 1. 5. See p. 2, 1. 2, n.

P. 20, 1. 20. A tailler le sapiti avec son couteau — in shaping the pinewood with his knife. Couteau — cultellus (cf. p. 15, 1. 25, n).

P. 20, 1. 31. Achevant pour recommencer, etc. — completing [only] to begin again, and beginning again [only] to complète once more.

P. 21, 1. 1. Arrière — L. ad rétro.

P. 21, 1. 10. La science était acquise, etc. — knowledge had been acquired, [the existence of] genius remained to be proved. Restait — il restait. Il is often omitted in the impersonal sentence. Dumas has even the expression y a, for il y a.

P. 21, 1. 14. Lutte si pleine de joie lorsqu'elle est heureuse, etc. — a contest so fuU of joy when it is successful, and when the création [of the mind] realizes itself. Pleine de — cf. Kennedy's L. Gr. § 136.

P. 21, 1. 16. Que le bois obéissait à, etc. — was obedient to Herman's every fancy; he seemed to knead and mould it by, etc.

P. 21, 1. 17. Pétrir — L. pistor; whence the barbarous pistire. Cf. p. 9, 1. 9, n.

P. 21, 1. 20. Il s'y confondait tout entier — he was entirely absorbed by it [i.e., made himself one with it — lost himself in it].

P. 21, 1. 22. Rien... n'était. Observe tbat rien is derivecl from L. rem, and tliat ne-rien is ne rem, équivalent to nihil, i.e., nà hilum, or ne filum, as Max Miiller contends, Lect., 2nd Ser., p. 344. Couip. p. 2, 1. 11, n.

P. 21, 1. 25. Il avait compris Vart,etc.— he liad come to understand that art is tlie expression in a visible form of tlie thoughts of a human soûl brought face to face witli nature. [The original is iintranslatable except paraplirastically.]

P, 22, 1. 4. Avec joie — the article is omitted before abstract nouns, wlien they are preceded by the words sans, avec, ni, entre.

P. 22, 1. 7. On put ajouter, etc. — they were able to add some articles of furniture, etc.

P. 22, 1. 10. Kneft—B. kind of dumpling.

P. 22, 1. 15. Why apprises ? Cf. p. 2, 1, 20, n.

P. 22, 1. IG. Se partageaient ainsi entre le travail et de tranquilles distractions — were thus divided between labour and quiet amusements. In verbs in ger, when the g would naturally be foUowed by o or a, the French insert e after the g, for euphony. Cf. Eve and Baudiss Fr. Gram., p. 7'\ Entre is used ■u'hen speaking of two objects ; piarmi when referring to several.

P, 22, 1. 25. Sa seule inspiration. Note the différence in meaning between seul coming befoi-e its substantive, and when it cornes after it. Compare our use of the word only.

P. 22, 1. 27. Il ne sentait aucun des froissements, etc. — he felt none of the shocks of real life. Aucun — L. aliquis unus.

P. 22, 1. 30. Fumant sa pipe d'écume de mer — smoking his meerschaum,

P. 23, 1. 1. TJn cavalier tourna tout à coup le sentier — a horseman suddenly turned down the path.

P. 23, 1. 13. Baragouina-t-il — " Baragouin, gibberish, from the two Breton words, bara, bread, and givin, wine, coined by the French, who heard thèse words often uttered by the Bretons, whom they regarded as barbarous." — Diez.

P. 23, 1. 16. C'est à merveille — that's exactly the right thing.

P. 23, 1. 24. Acheter— L. acceptare. Cf. Max MuUer, Lect., 2nd Ser., p. 270.

P. 23, 1. 27. Qui promena un regard. Observe the transitive use of the verb promener. So Boileau A. P.

" Thespis fut le premier qui, barbouillé de lie. Promena par les bourgs cette heureuse folie."