breloques, "watch charms," hère amulets

Pagre 29. — i. garnitures tuyautées, the crimped trimming or edge ; tuyau = " tube." 2. élégant is the noun.

Paille 30. — I. chiens allongés sur leurs pattes, Le, lyîng down.

2. rue de Tolède, The Toledo, is the main street of Naples. It is said to be at ail hours the noisiest street in Europe.

3. Villa Reale, along the Riviera di Chiaja, is the favorite promenade of Naples.

4. trovatelle, "^ waif^^ hère street-singer ; trovatelle cornes from the Italian irovare^ French trouver.

5. Gordigiani (Luigi), Italian musician (i 806-1 860). He composed several opéras, but his Canzonette and Canti populari (" Songs " and "Popular Airs") for voice and piano made him famous. He has sometimes been called the Italian Schubert.

Pagre 31« — I. improper. On the Continent, the prudishness of the English is often made fun of. See also page 2, note 6, or page 103, 3.

2. quoiqu'il eût l'usage du monde, though a man of the world; lit. "accustomed to society."

Page 32. — i. l'effluve, the magnetic influence. 2. -manège, i) "ridingschool"; 2) manoeuvres.

3. minutant une sortie, préparant une sortie, îooking for a prête xt to leave the house.

4. fontaine de Santa Lucia, on the Largo (square) di Santa Lucia^ one of the fish markets of Naples. The Fontana di Santa Lucia is adorned with very fine statues and bas-reliefs.

Pag^e 33» — i. osteria, Italian = inn.

2. du falerne et du lacryma-christi, two kinds of wine, the former getting its name from the city of Falemo; the latter is the Latin for " tear of Christ."

3. Pulcinella, one of the characters of the Italian popular stage,

who plays the part of the bufîoon ; French, polichinelle^ English Punch.

4. croissants . . . arrachés au front du taureau divin qui iK)rtait Europe. Allusion to the myth of Europe (the daughter of Agenor, king of Phoenicia) carried ofî by Jupiter, disguised as a bull, who took her across the sea from Phoenicia to Creta. See OviduSf Métamorphoses Lib. II, XVIII, 833 ss.