feu hahoi^f Jire front the larboard (the port guns

Page 53. — i. de l'esprit d'à-propos, on the présence of mind.

2. Antigone, the daughter of Œdipus and the heroine of Sophocles' tragedy of Antigone. She served as guide to her blind father until his death and has remained the type of filial dévotion.

Page 54. — i. sur le mode lyrique, in lyric style.

Page 56. — i. le cycle d'Arthur, the Arthurian or Breton cycle of Romance of chivalry, compiled by Geoffrey of Monmouth (1140) to celebrate the deeds and adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. The same writer wrote also a Latin translation of the prophecies of the celebrated enchanter Merlin. Later Chrestien de Troyes gave a more artistic form and setting to thèse fascinating stories, such as Le Chevalier au Lion, Cligès, etc. ; cf. in English Malory's Le Morte Darthur and Tennyson's Idylls of the King.

2. César, fulius Ccesar, the Roman conqueror of Gaul (58-51 B. c).

3. druides, bardes, ovates, the three ruling classes among the Celts ; the druides being the philosophers and men of science ; the bardes, the poets and historians ; and the ovates, the priests.

4. menhir, dolmen, galgal, cromlech ; Celtic megalithic monuments, with their stones arranged in différent ways, — horizontally, vertically, or in the form of a circle.

Page 5 7. — I . voudrait, would rather.