Par . . . main : by the élever ness of the makingup

Page 57. — z. Gauloiserie: Gallic humor, a humor that cornes from a sound good-nature without any bitternèss in it.

Page 58. — i. Port-Royal. A celebrated Cistercian abbey about eight miles from Versailles. It was founded in 1204 by Mathilde de Garlande, wife of Matthieu de Montmorenci-Marli. In the seventeenth century it became the abode of some very noted men who were called the n Solitaries of Port Royal," and who after some time devoted themselves to teaching. Racine was one of their pupils.

2. Barbey d'Aurevilly (181 1). A writer and critic, upholder of the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, a very strange and complicated character. His best-known works are : Les Bas-bleus au XIX e siècle, La vieille Maîtresse ; Gœthe et Diderot, a biting and unfair critique on thèse two great men ; Les Ridicules du Temps (1883), where he is perhaps at his best, showing an impetuous and caustic verve ; Sensations d'Art, the seventh part of Les Œuvres et les Hommes au XIX' siècle, which is a séries of critiques on artists and their judges, such as Courbet, Paul Delaroche, Th. Silvestre, Millet, Mozart, etc.

3. Je . . . ramassant : / overdraw the picture by grouping together so many différent éléments.

4. Névropathes. Name given to people of unbalanced nervous System, the resuit of the overstrained life and rush of our day.

Page 59. — z. Qu'on . . .'coup: that one notices them only on second thought.

Page 60. — z. Le. . . vocabulaire: the good coinage of his vocabulary.

2. Les boulevardiers. See (second) article Renan, page 22, note 2.

Page 61. — z. Des Obermann, des Horace, des Mme. de Morsauf. Obermann the hero of Sénancour's novel Obermann; Horace, that of Georges Sand's novel of the same name ; Madame de Morsauf, the heroine of Balzac's Le Lys dans la Vallée.

Page 62. — z. Paul de Kock. A novelist of this century, who has written a great many popular stories, but whose style is somewhat loose.