n est certain que. See Appendix, I. B. i

374. Voilà le cruel, * that is the cmel part of it ail *; le cruel a noun coined from the adject. on the analogy of le irrai^ cf. le beau^ le bon^ 1. 20.

375. diront, * will speak,' rare în this sensé ; dire ^*io say,' active.

378 sqq. Admirai CoUingwood's correspondence with Mrs. and aferwards Lady Collingwood, and with J. E, Blackett, Esq.» is full of questions and advice concerning his two daughters,

380-1. See 1. 560 infra. In his letter to J. E. Blackett, Esq., dated * Queen, off Malaga, ist Jan. 1806,' he desires his daughters * to Write a French leiter every day to him or their mother '; he wishes them to read *not trifles, but history' (to Lady Collingwood from the QueeUf March ist, 1806); to * study geography regularly,' and to keep a journal, * not of what they eat and drink,* but of the nature of the country they are in, its products» and the manners of its inhabitants (do., April 5th, 1806).

Among the lelters that dwell most upon the éducation of his