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Références are to page and spécial référence number. — Edgr. = Edgren's Compendious French Grammar (last édition) ; Wh. = Whitney's Practical French Grammar.

Page 1. — i. Saville-row, street in London running parallel to the well-known Régent Street. — Observe that English words with unchanged spelling, especially proper nouns, may be pronounced as in English, though in ordinany parlance exception is made, in this respect, for many words of familiar use. Cf. list at the end of thèse notes.

2. Reform-Club de Londres, referring to the Club of the "Whig party at Pall Mail, constituted 1830.

3. quant aux pieds, référence to the well-known fact that Bryon was club-footed.

4. Londonner, made after the English ' Londoner ' . . . More common in Londonnier.

5. Cité (from which English ' city ') is in French used especially for ancient cities and for the old centres of modem cities (esp. Paris and London).

6. comptât, subjunctive, in spite of the preceding de ce que (Edgr. §323, B; Wh. §184, d).

7. A qui s'étonnerait . . . , on répondra, lit. 'To any one who {qui, Edgr. § 277, Wh. § 101, a) would be astonished . . . , one will answer'; transi. If anybody wonder {de ce que 'that,' howt) . . . he may know.

8. MM. (for Messieurs) Baring frères, at the time one of the largest banking firms in England.

Page 2. — 1. appoint, contribution.

2. Il n'était = // n'y avait (Edgr. § 424, note 2); without pas (Edgr. § 376, note 2; Wh. § 166, note); followed by the subjunctive (Edgr. § 323, C, a; Wh. § 135, c); and followed by a négative clause with ne alone (Edgr. 378; Wh. § 166, b).

3. avait dû voyager, must hâve traveled (Edgr. § 317, c; Wh. XXVI, 12, f).