Ultra. Understand Legitimist or Royalist

1. 24. Madame Guizot, Pauline de Meulan (i 773-1827), the first wife of the statesman and historian Guizot (i 787-1 874). She published in this year a volume of Taies entitled Nouveaux Contes, which is possibly the book referred to.

' P. 25, 1. 7. Barde. Ossian and Scott had got somewhat mixed in the French mind, and Quinet probably means nothing more than that Mr. Smith was a Scotchman of literary tastes. But the Edinburgh ' Works ' (see below) may hâve been in verse. Smith was a man of some adventures. He had been imprisoned as an Englishman by Napoléon, and as a Libéral under the Restoration,

1. II. Covirs publics. Professorial lectures open to the public.

1. 27. Odin. Hère Quinet becomes more 'mixed' still. He has got from bards to scalds, from Caledonia to Scandinavia.

1. 30. Paysan du Danube. The subject of one of La Fontaine's most celebrated fables (Book xi. Fable 7), in which a peasant protests against the ambition and avarice of Rome.