mon nez en pied de marmite, my pug nose

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19.— 19. l'alla prendre sur mes talons, went and look it dose behind me.

22. d'y relever quelques grosses bévues, of pointing outinit 8everal great blunders.

26. une brasserie vendue à Jehan d'Estouville, a brewery sold to Jean dEstouville. Jehan = Johan = Jean, the first two forma are older French. The sentence may be regarded as an allusion to the corruption of the clergy.

20.— 3. Cosmographie de Munster. The Cosmographie of Sébastian Munster (born 1489) is the most famous of his forty books. It is a gênerai description of the world, with many maps, thought to hâve appeared originally in German, at Basle, in 1544. He says that he had been engaged upon it for eighteen years. To the section devoted to Asia he adds a few pages containing what was then known of America, which gives his work a great historical interest. This is also an important work in the history of engraving on wood. M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot says in his introduction to his édition of Vecellio's "Costumes" that it contains: "Un grand nombre de gravures représentant les vues de toutes les villes remarquables, les portraits et les costumes, les objets d'armoires et d'histoire naturelle."

3. Le volume, dont les plats étaient légèrement entrebâillés, reposait sur sa tranche médiane. The volume, the great leaves of which were slighily open, rested upon it» front edge.

6. mes regards étaient attachés, my attention had'been ftxed. See Less. 61, iii. 2, note.

21. mes études iconographiques, my itovogmphfcal studies ; i. e. f in his character of " archiviste paléographe."

31. les sourcils noirs sont très séants aux blondes, dark eye-brows are very becoming to blondes. A rare combination surely, but M. France ought to be good authority on the subject.

21.— 3. s'il n'eût pas été, if it would not hâve been. For this subjunctive after si compare 10-28.