ondoyer, to baptize privately

L 34. qui ne feront jamais (le sujet cT) un article.., which will never supply the materials for a notice.

1. 31. Minerve.,. Pallas. Athênê considered first as the goddese of literature and art, and, secondly, as the goddess of war.

1. 33. Neuilly, a village near Paris, on the banks of the Seine.

P. I5r L 7. r Année littéraire, a well known literary review, founded by Fréron, Élie Catherine (1719 — 1771)1 and continued after his death by Geof&oy, Julien Louis (1743 — 18 14).

L 10. lettre motiva, a letter in which the grounds of lus objections were stated.

1. 15. modtier la firme^ to mould into an appropriate shape the expression itself.

1. 17. un style sautillant, an abrupt style. Voltaire has called the author oit Esprit des lois "le sautillant Montesquieu.*'