lant hêtres mal posés. This unusual phrase dérives

some light from its contrary, the well-known idiom bien poséy i. e. having means and crédit in society.

La Tamise.

Page 76. After the ' cry of the vvorkman and his family,* and a pause of hopeful respite in * Conscience,' the poet hère follows Lazare to the last station of his dolorous way : thèse three central poems wind up with a note of despair.

1. 17. Et quand ^ armé d^ un fort poitrail. The last word, exclusively applied to animais and more particularly to horses, is very effective. The entire poem is in the same strain, energetic, as Barbier can be at his best.

Page 77. 1. 33. Que la brique rouge et stérile. The brick inhospitable houses are made of.