à quoi m'en tenir, " wbat to tbink of it

34.-3. maille à partir, "a bonetopick," "aquarrel.** partir is used in tbe old sensé of " to divide."

11, l'enqoit, from s* enquérir,

14. portefeuille, ''portfolio," l.e. a position as cabinet minister.

19. tribun de commissions. In ancient Rome tbe tribunes were elected to défend tbe rigbts of tbe pcople against tbe patricians. Two of tbese tribunes, Tiberius and Caius Qraccbus, were great orators. Hence ardent démocratie or démagogie orators are called tribuns, Tbis one indulges in oratory only before Commissions, i.e. committees of tbe Cbamber appointed for tbe study of somo particular question.

21. Groupes progressistes et libertaires, two of tbe innumerable subdivisions of parties tbat are constant! 7 forming and sbifting, like a séries of dissolving views, in Frencb politics.