poussée générale, concerted attack

3. L'amour du prochain, love for our neighbor (in the scriptural sensé).

4. la capitale de notre triangle, i.e. Memphis. At the beginning of the letter de Tocqueville says ; "Ainsi nous nous trouvions au milieu d'un triangle formé par le Mississipi, le Tennessee, et d'impénétrables déserts au midi."

Pagre 95. — i. Chateaubriand, see page 10, note 2.

2. A référence to La Fontaine's fable entitled Le singe et le dauphin. The story is that a ship having on board some people with their trained monkeys and dogs was wrecked not far from Athens. The dolphins came to the rescue, and owing to the deceptive resemblance, a monkey was in a fair way to be landed. However, it occurred to the friendly dolphin to ask the créature upon his back some questions, and in reply the monkey claimed to hâve corne from Athens where his cousin was " Judge-Mayor." More than this, the Pirœus (the port of Athens) was an intimate friend of his. The dolphin at once perceived his mistake, dropped the monkey, and began to look about for some man to save.

3. Chactas (cf. our English Choctaws) is a character in Chateaubriand's Atala.

4. Voyez la belle chose que la logique, see whatafine thing logic

Pagre 96. — i. This elle is very loosely used, for the noun it replaces is nation in Une 8 above.

2. De Tocqueville's indictment of the United States for the way the Indians hâve been treated is not very much overdrawn, yet his prophecy, after the lapse of almost eighty years, is far from being fulfilled. Tribal relations and govemment are fast disappearing, but probably the number of the Indians is increasing rather than lessening at the présent time.