à qui mon jeune dédaigneux trouve un air

rococo, troubadour, et " dessus de pendule," in whom my disdainful young friend %ee% a mannerùm whkh is showy, troubadour-like, and jaunty. In the expression " dessus de pendule " the author seems to refer to the mediœval figures of minstrels and knights-errant

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which are so often placed in groups over clocks. The gênerai idea seems to be that Gélis thinks Scott's pictures are only the gay, superficial, holiday features of mediœval chivalry, and do not penetrate into the real and earnest life of the times.

146.— 18. de Lucy et de la jolie fille de Perth, i. c, of Lucy Ashton in Scott's " Bride of Lammermoor," and of the heroine of "The Fair Maid of Perth." 23. si savant qu'on SOit, however learned one may be. Note this tendency of que, when separated from its word, to give the force of ' ever ' added to a pronoun or adverb. Thus quoi . . . que, l whatever/ but quoique, ' although.' Note also in the next paragraph, quel qu'en soit le costume, l whatever be its costume.'