se laisse prendre, is satisfied

P. 38, 1. 6. ne s'en dotdaient pas, had no inkling of it.

1.23. Claudien. Claudius Claudianus, a Latin author of the fourth century. The fragment hère quoted is taken from his poem against Rufinus.

ces vers fametix. Thèse verses may perhaps be translated thus :

"Oft hâve I, torn by anxious doubt, enquired Whether the Gods hâve any care for men, Or if this earthly globe roU blindly on, No guide but chance. Rufinus' fate at last Assuaged this tumult of my soûl. The Gods Acquitted stand : no longer need I mourn To see the wicked sit on high enthroned : They rise, but only thus to fall more low."

P. 39, 1. 7. cet honwie, le Fénelon de la politique. On Necker (Jacques, 1732 — 1804) see Lord Brougham's Statesmcn of the reign of George III, M. Sainte-Beuve's Causeries du Lundi, vol. vii., &c., &c. Fénelon (François de Salignac de la Mothe, 165 1 — 1715), the celebrated author of Télcmaque, and archbishop of Cambrai. ^^Bel espi-it chitnérique'" was the expression applied to him, and, in a certain measure, characteristic of Necker.

1. 9, 10. car il en faut. ..tous les moyens: for a man needs at least as much genius to put himself in harmony with heaven, as to summon up around him ail the means....

1. 26. M. Kocca was secretly married to Madame de Staël in 181 1.

P. 40, 1. 6. Bertie (in modem L. Arctopolis, on account of the bear which figures on the Cantonal Standard) was founded or rebuilt in 1198 by the Duke Berthold V of Zahringen.

1. 7. donné rendez-vous à, madeanappointment tomeet M.Schlegel: see above p. 16, 1. 13.