Cet hébraïsant : This student of Hebrew, Hebrew scholar

4. M. Coquelin ou Madame Sarah Bernhardt. Coquelin, name of two famous French actors of the Comédie Française ; Coquelin aîné et Coquelin cadet, both perfect actors in their kind. Sarah Bernhardt, the renowned actress whose réputation has spread ail over the world.

Page 19. — z. Les badauds : silly people, people whojudge at random.

2. Son . . . carrière: he had given free scope to his imagination. *' Carrière : espace à parcourir dans les courses de chars ou de chevaux, courses à pied, etc. Fig., se donner — donner carrière à son éloquence, à son ambition = lui laisser le champ libre."

3. M. de Vogué. Le Vicomte Melchior de Vogué, the apostle bf Neo- Christianism in France. He has great influence over the young men of the présent day by the dignity of his life and the élévation of his doctrines. He was the first to call the attention of French readers to Russian literature.

4. Qui . . . croyons ! who, headed by M. de Vogué, are repeating to their heart y s delight: Let *s believe ! Let 's believe l

Page 20. — 1. Une encéphalite : a disease ofthe brain.

2. Une . . . intellectuelle: a disorderly rush of ' intellectual sap.

3. Condorcet. A great mathematician, philosopher, and writer of the eighteenth century, born in 1743. He was received member of the Academy of Sciences in 1769. He was induced by D'Alembert, the great mathematician, to take an active part in the préparation of the Encyclopediu. His

best-known work is Esquisse d'un Tableau historique des Progrès de V esprit humain. This book is pervaded by a spirit of excessive hopefulness. Its value lies in its gênerai ideas. Its chief defects spring from the author's aversion to ail philosophy which did not attempt to explain the world exclusively on mechanical and sensational principles.

4. Les encyclopédistes. The encyclopedists were the authors of the famous Encyclopedia, which appeared in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and to which contributed the greatest writers of that time, such as D' Alembert, Diderot, — who took upon himself the management of the whole enterprise and wrote a number of articles, especially on Arts and Trades, — Voltaire, Condorcet, Turgot, etc.

5. Saint-Sulpice. Name of a great seminary in Paris where young men are brought up to be priests. It was founded in 1641 by Jean Jacques Olier, a friend of Saint Vincent de Paul.

Page 21. — 1. Son vieux "pourana." " Pourana est le nom générique de grands poèmes sanscrits. Dans la préface (1890) de V Avenir de la Science Renan écrit : f Un gros embarras résultait du parti que j'avais pris d'imprimer mon vieux pourana tel qu'il est.' Il appelle ainsi son livre, composé en 1848 et 1849, qui lui paraît un peu vieux, un peu rococo à l'époque où il écrit la préface ; de là le mot plaisant de pourana appliqué à cet ouvrage." (Paul Meyer.)

2. Il a dû déchanter: hehasbeen obligea to lower his tone. "Déchanter: chanter d'une autre manière, changer d'avis. Par ext. Famil. : rabattre de ses prétensions, de ses espérances. Tu vois qu'à chaque instant il te fait déchanter (Molière, rÉtourdi)" (Hatzfeld and Darmsteter.)

Page 22. — 1. Hegel. A famous German philosopher. His philosophy is derived from the doctrines of Kant, Fichte, and Schelling. (1770-1831.)

2. Les boulevardiers. We call boulevardiers those men who spend most of their time in the " cafés " on the grands Boulevards in Paris, leading an idle life, talking much and thinking little, having opinions on everything, but being guided in their judgment by préjudices of fashion or by fads. They hâve a very high idea of their own selves and they are apt to think that they are the leaders of public opinion, especially in literary or artistic questions, and that Paris, and consequently the whole world, revolves around them.