et dites s'il ne se ranime pas à la pensée, and my

whether it does not glow again al the ihought. 32* — 8. qui me disait, saying to me. For this use of a relative

clause in French where a participle is used in English,

see Less. 46, ii. 1.

83. — 5. Pont des Arts, the name of a bridge for foot-passengers

over the Seine, leading frora the front of the ancient

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Mazarin Palace (where the meetings of the Institute are held) on the south side of the Seine to the Louvre on the north side. This famous bridge is near the centre of the iiterary Paris of to-day.

33«— 7. Sainte-Beuve,acelebratedFrenchcritic(1804-1869),was the author of the famous Causeries du Lundi. He was, says Saintsbury, " The critic not merely of the Komantic inovement, but of the nineteenth century, and in a manner the first scientific and universal çritic that the world has seen."