Comble is both noun and adjective

1 23. L'illustre écrivain. Apparently, Villemain. Such remarks usually refer to the speaker's predecessor : but Quinet had none.

P. 93, 1. 23, Charles Magnin (i 793-1862), author of an excellent book on the Early Europeau Théâtre, and other works. He had leamt le tnétier, by being for some years assistant-professor to Fauriel. Jean Jacques Ampère (^1800-1864), an industrious historian, writer and joumalist. He was Professor of French Literature.

1. 28. Madame Cornu (1813-1875) was the friend of m.any remarkable people, including the late Emperor Napoléon III, whose mother was her godmother. She had some literary standing as a translater and critic of German literature. Her husband was a painter.

P. 94, 1. 17. Des Cortès. In English, Cortès is improperly treated as a singular noim, like Parliament, In French, as in Spanish, it is plural, meaning ' courts.*

1. 23. Reine. Isabella Segunda, then only thirteen, but declared a month before by the Cortès to hâve reached her majority. The révolution of which Quinet speaks was only one of the continuai ' crises ' which marked her reign.

P. 95, 1. 10. Montparnasse. The Boulevard Montparnasse, where is one of the great Paris railway stations, that of the Western Railway. Close to, and parallel with it, is now a smaller boulevard, named after Quinet.

1. 16. Là. This, if translated 'there,' in English, will mean exactly what Quinet does not mean, i.e. in Italy. French, always précise, refers là to the object farthest removed in the clause, i.e. 'ce peuple.'

1. 31. Olozaga (1805-18 7 3), a Spanish statesman of eminence.

P. 96, 1. 10. Musée. Remember that this word by itself, in French, does not usually mean 'muséum,' but ' picture-galleiy.'

1. 13. Très-catalan. The Aragonese and Catalonian Cortès of old days were specially noted for independence, not to say turbulence.

1. 28. The réputation of the ' very- great poet, Zorilla.' (more properly. Don José Zorrilla, an extremely fertile and very popular playsvright and versifier,) bas been, for others than Spaniards, somewhat lost in that of his namesake, Don Ruiz Zorrilla, the Republican statesman, who Avas only seven years old at this time.

1. 30. Fonction, as the Spanish ///««<?«, =any public performance.

1. 37. Galiano. A joumalist, and miscellaneous writer of merit, if not quite up to Quinet's paneg>Tic. The extraordinary oratorical capabilities of Spanish are generally recognised, and a successor of Galiano, Senor Castelar, is sometimes pronoimced the greatest orator in Eiu-ope.

P. 97, 1. 7. Caballeros, Sp. 'gentlemen.'

1. 12. 'N'en sont pas là.' 'Hâve not got to this point,' referring to the fact of the ovemmning of both countries, Germany and Spain, by Napoléon.

1. 17. The Duke of Rivas was also a Libéral politician of some little note : Bermudez, a man of letters, of no great mark.

1. 25. 'The great M. Olozaga' rose again, and was prominent in Spanish politics, especially after the fall of Isabella. He was several times ambassador in France, and more than once exiled. The scène desctibed will remind every one of the famous passage in The Abboû, where Queen Mary is forced to sign her abdication.

P. 98, 1. 19. Camarilla, 'cabal.' Queen Christina, Isabella's mother, had been forced to leave the country three years before, and did not retum till 1845.

1. 24. Progressiste, 'Radical.' Moderado, 'Liberal-Conservative.'