les Bois, ' Epiphany.' la Saint-Jean, June

1. 31. le père Maunoir, (Julien), a French Jesuit who became a missionary in Brittany, and wrote a good deal about the language of the country. He wrote chiefly in the Bas Breton dialect.

1. 35. il est à naître qui ait vu Breton bretonnant . . . , ' the man has yet to be found who has seen a genuine Breton . . .' Bretonnant is hère an adjective and is used of Bretons who hâve retained their national characteristics. The subjunctive ait vu is influenced by the impersonal expression, il est à naître.

1. 37. fêtais conduit en station, * I was taken round to offer prayer.'

Page 21. 1. 4. à Vheure du salut, ' at the hour of the chanting of the salut.''

1. 9. Tantum ergo. Tanlum ergo sacramentum are the first words of a hymn sung at the célébration of the Eucharist in Roman Catholic churches.

1. 12. Jacques Cartier. This celebrated navigator and explorer was born at St. Malo. He followed in the wake of the Cabots, exploring Newfoundland and Canada, of which he took formai possession in the name of France.

Duguay-Trouin was a famous sailor and privateer. He was born at St. Malo in 1673, and distinguished himself during the wars of Louis XIV. He was one of that race of dauntless seamen, bred within the narrow limits of the island town, who made the French name a terror on the seas. Thèse men are the Drakes, Frobishers, and Grenvilles of French history.

1. 34. sainte Monique. Monica, the mother of St. Augustine, lay dying at Ostia. When asked by her friends if she did not grieve at the thought of being buried so far from her husband and her home in Africa, she replied : Nihil longe est a Deo. The incident has been used by Matthew Arnold in one of his most charming sonnets.

Page 22. 1. 6. prêtieulx flânez, i. e. précieux flancs, je vous mereye et vous prye, ' I thank you and pray to you.'