sotinds somewhat harsh. Mme. Cottin's book was mnch

read in Northern Europe, and especially in England. Note that auteur bas no féminine.

10. sans appui, sans conseil. Explain the absence of tbe article in thèse expressions, and state otbers where tbe article is also omitteo. Form verbs witb thèse two substantives.

la pensée ... et la force, both the OumgM . . . and ihe strength.

12. intérêt de surprise ; lit interest of surprise ; in a play or novel, that interest wbich unexpected, unforeseen, sensational events, brought about by the author, may generate in the minds of either spectators or readers.

15. assez intéressante par eUe-môme, auffidemUy irUeresHng in itself, par elle-môme, cf. Lat. per se,

19. Ukraine ; lit. bordering land ; a vast tract of countiy in European Russia, including the govemments of Kiev, Pultava, TchemigOY, and Ëharkov. This fine province was 300 years ago totally uninhabited.

Hongrie ; in the native idiom Madgyar Orsztig, the largest of the hereditary states of the Austrian monarchy. The Mad^ar élément forms about one-third of its population. As regards mental culture it is much below the other parts of the Austrian empire.

2. 1. hoviscurds, hyssar^ a light horse soldier ; generally spelt

hussard, from the Hungarian Huszar = twentieth ; so called because, in the wars against the Turks, in the fifteenth century, each village had to furnish one cavalry soldier out of every twenty, ftilly equipped.

il ne tarda pas, U was not loTig hefore he . , ,