l'École. The School of Law

1. 27. L'original. Quinet knew no German when he first began to translate Herder, with whom he made acquaintance in an English version, published in 1800.

1. 29. "Welclies, which it should hardly be necessary to say is our * Welsh,' — a term used by Teutonic for non-Teutonic peoples, not without a shade of national contempt, — was a favourite word with Voltaire, when he wished to speak lightly of his owti countrymen. If (which is not quite clear) Quinet applies it to England, it is not very happy, though from Voltaire's use it came to hâve in France much the same meaning as ' Goth ' wilh us.

P. 42, 1. 2. Victor Cousin (i792-i867>, during the first half of his life famous as a spokesman of Eclectic Philosophy, during the last as an agreeable writer on the literature and society of the seventeenth century in France. He had, during the reign of Louis Philippe, considérable political influence, especially in the dispensing of CroAvn patronage to literary men. Cousin was prompt to recognise talent, but is accused in other cases besides Quinet's, of ha^■ing been prone to jealousy of his protégés, when they displayed very remarkable ability.

1. 34, Pauvre Goethe. There does not seem to hâve been any spécial reason for the adjective, except that Goethe was growing old.

ii6 quinet's letters to m s mother.

p. 43, 1. lo. Beards were then, it raust be remembered, unusual, and were thought slovenly and uncivilised.