à l'égard d'un riche crasseux, in comparison with

a rich miser.

28. Il ne va, itisnot consistent, it does not suit. 30. Noli me tangere, touch me not.

147. — 3. une vente aux enchères, a sale at auction. 18. vade rétro, get thee behind me.

21. agent de change bibliomane, dealer in old books. 26. Madame Trépof, a character in M. France's excellent story "La Bûche," which was originally printed in the same volume with " Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard." See Biographical Notice, p. 7.

148.— 10. pleine à en crever, fuU to bursting. Note the redundant en = *from its fullness/ It usually, even when redundant, so called, expresses a shade of thought omitted in English.

15. le vocabulaire actuel, the vocabulary of the présent day.