la Bourse, the Stock Exchange

7. mettait sur les dents, '' tired out." A horse is said to be sur les dents when, being tired, he rests his teeth on the bit.

7. tout le personnel de la charge, *'all the employées of the oflBce."

11. dans le monde, " in societ7."—r Opéra-Comique is an opérahonse in Paris devoted to light opéra.

19. sybarite. The inhabitants of ancient Sybaris were pleasureloving and effeminate to a proverbial degree.

21. l'aménagement de son hôtel. The arrangements in the rooms and halls, the quality of the furniture, etc., is what the author means. But there is no sufficient authority for that meaning. Aménagement is the régulation of the felling and replacing of trees, and of ail that belongs to the préservation of a f orest.

24. capitonner, to line with capitons, as an easy-chair. Capiton is the loose, furry substance of the silk cocoons.

25. décor, "scène," "surroundings," — a figure borrowed from the stage. Usually the plural is nsed for this sensé of the word.