en matière de, by way of

140.— 13. Pilule, Drogue, ou Ricin, Pill, Drug, or Gastor-oU.

18. lui faire payer notre hospitalité, to make it payfor our hospitality. Note the indirect form lui, because payer is followed by a direct object See Less. 39, iii. Note 2.

29. que ce nom engendre l'autre et qu' Hannibal succède à Hamilcar, that this name should give rise to the other, and that Hannibal should succeed HamUcar. Note the force of the subjunctives engendre and succède, and see Less. 55, xviii. 1 (a).

34. s'alla tapir, went and crouched. Note that the infinitive,

without a préposition after aUer, is usually introduced by ' and ' in English. Note also the place of the reflexive se, the alla being hère used as an auxiliary, and therefore not separated from its verb.

35. n'y eût pas tenu, could not hâve entered iL. Lit., ' would

not hâve held there.'

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141»— 9. Au rebours le théâtre, itisthe reverse of the théâtre.

9. M. Scribe. Augustin-Eugène Scribe (1791-186] ) was the mort voluminous dramatic author of France of the présent century. He wrote much in collaboration with others, and when he was admitted to the French Academyln 1836 it was pleasantly remarked that by the side of his chair should be placed a bench for his numerous collaborators. To this Villemain well replied that he would not perhaps hâve written ail of his plays without their aid, but without his own name none of them would hâve succeeded. He died suddenly in his carnage in the street, the resuit of overwork. 10. à bon escient, knowingly,for a purpose.

16. voyez-vous que . . . j'invente, suppose I invent. 21. Parny. Evariste Désiré de Forges Parny, an elegiac and erotic poet, a créole, was born in the Isle of Bourbon in 1753 and died in Paris in 1814. He has been called by de Fontaines " the first elegiac French poet." He was elected a member of the French Acadeiuy. His Elégies constitute his chief claim to immortality. 23. Une paisible indifférence, etc. The poem hère referred to is entitled " Ma Retraite " ( Œuvre» choisies de Parny, Paris, Lefevre, 1827, p. 62), which closes as follows :

La haine est pour moi trop pénible ; La sensibilité n'est qu'un tourment de plus ; Une indifférence paisible Est la plus sage des vertus.

26. Bouddhistes, foUowers of Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, born in Central India about eight centuries before the Christian era. The author hère refers to their dwelling upon humility as one of the cardinal virtues. He also refers indirectly to the value of 8pecialization — t. e., covering a small field in order to excel in it.