un jeune et malveillant érudit, a young and ma

liciously critical scholar.

111. — 19. ce furent ses idées qui trottèrent, it was his idem which were in motion. For ce furent in the plural, before the third person plural predicate, see Less. 48, vii. 20. Il fallait qu'il eût, he must hâve had. Compare 110-17. 24. gargouille de cathédrale, awaterspoutofa cathedral; Le., a carved waterspout frequently representing the head or portions of the body of some hideous monster.

112»— 5. Brou, a small village nearly 300 miles S. E. of Paris. It is especially distinguished for its ancient cathedral of Notre Dame, one of the most interesting monuments in France. There is an immense flat stone dial before the door marked with the hours and the naraes of the montbs. It is so constructed that if you stand on the name of any month your shadow, in the sun, falls exactly upon the hour of that day.