Un bambin : a little chap. Bambin, from It. bambino

7. Lyon. Lyons, in English, 401,930 inhabitants, the second city in size in France ; situated at the confluence of the Rhône and the Saône. Its manufactures of silk and velvet are renowned throughout the world.

8. Oh . . . buissonnière : where he often played truant, lit. school in the bushes. Faire V école buissonnière : to take a holiday instead of going to school.

Page 38. — 1. Le Miserere. One of the seven ps'alms called in the Catholic Church psaumes de la Pénitence. It bears the number 51 in Protestant Bibles.

2. Musset. Alfred de Musset (18 10-1857), one of the finest lyric poets of this century. He wrote : Premières Poésies : Rolla, Namouna, La Coupe et les Lèvres, A quoi rêvent les jeunes filles. Ballade à la Lune. His poems called Nuits would be enough to make his name famous : La Nuit de Mai, La Nuit de Décembre, La Nuit d^Août, La Nuit d 'Octobre. He also wrote some short dramas, such as: On ne badine pas avec r Amour, Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée, Il ne faut jurer de rien, and a few novels : Pierre et Camille, Les deux Maîtresses, Le Fils de Titien, etc. Un Musset mignard would be a poet having the grâce of Musset mixed with a certain affectation. Mignard was the name of a portrait-painter of the seventeenth century, whose pictures were full of grâce, but somewhat affected. A very interesting sélection from the poetry and comédies of Alfred de Musset has been edited by L. Oscar Kuhns, and published by Ginn & Co.

3. Figaro. A daily paper, political and lrterary ; it was at first a satirical paper, founded, in 1854, by H. de Villemessant ; it has become, since 1866, what it is now.

Page 39. — 1. La manécanterie de Saint-Nizier : the school for choristers of Saint-Nizier.

Page 40. — z. Paris bohème. Bohemian Paris. Un Bohême: aman who leads an unconventional life, generally an artist, a literary man, or a student.

2. Paris interlope : the Paris ofthe people of doubtful character.

Page 41. — 1. Et . . . bas : and ail conditions and classes of people to be met with in Paris. Allusion to the French custom of living in flats. The higher stories or étages, being cheaper, are inhabited by the people in moderate or poor circumstances, the lower stories by the richer.

2. Et ... là : and not to go any further, not to say anything more.