qui ne valaieni pas, were not as fine as

101.— 2. Pas-de-Boland, a mountain pass in the Pyrénées country, famous in epic poetry as the place where Roland, the fabled paladin of Charlemagne, met his death.

8. ces grands fous, thèse big madmen. The sensé of the passage is: Little children are very much like grown up crazy enthusiasts; grown men are very much like big children. Cf.

"Men are but children of a larger growth."

103.— 9. Apprêtez-armes ! 'BjqsÀJ'Bxtûb I Ck>nmiand» preceding that of firing.

17. sur cette autre mer qu*est la montag^ie, on that other sea, the mountain. There is no English équivalent for this que bef ore est, The use of it is idiomatic, its effect being to emphasize the transposed subject. If it were a relative pronoun we should expect qui and not que, This use of que before est is common with the best writers.

108.— 14. CPeêt donc ça, la guerre f This, then, is warT This question is put in the mouth of an idiot, but^ it would seem, with the idea that wiser heads might heed the moral concealed in it.

The absolute, enthusiastic dévotion to an abstract idea symbolized by an outward sign has in ail âges marked the martyr and the hero. Mankind has not yet reached that perf ect state when martyrdom and heroism will be unnecessary because ail men bow to the rules of justice. Hence the necessity of tragic conflicts in individual cases when, as in our story, a great heroic instinct is called into action, and a noble life is sacrificed without an adéquate cause. Take away that instinct:

there will then be no war, but what remains will hardly be worth living for. In other words: only an idiot would be perfectiy satisfied with it.