La Bruyère. See article Alphonse Daudet, page 41, note

Page 63. — z. La Princesse de Clèves. A novel written by Madame de la Fayette, who has also left some interesting Mémoires. She was the f riend of the famous moralist La Rochefoucauld. She is, with Madame de Sévigné, the best "femme de lettres" of the seventeenth century. See Ginn & Co.'s édition of La Princesse de Clèves.

2. Adolphe. A famous novel by Benjamin Constant. See below, article P*ul Bourget, page 85, note 5.

Second Article.

Page 64. — z. De sa voix tonitruante: witk his thunderous voice. Tonitrous is also sometimes used in English, but rarely. It cornes from Lat. tonitrus, thunder. Tonitruare, v. t., L. Lat. tonitruatus, to thunder, is of the same origin, but now rarely used.

I cannot fulminate or tomtruate words To puzzle intellects.

Randalph, to Master James Shirley (Century Dict.).

a. Un . . . couleur : with a high-colored complexion.

Page 65. — i. Eugène Yung. The first editor of the Revue Bleue, a weekly political and literary magazine.

Page 67. — i . Plus incliné : more accessible to pity, more inclined to feel any pity.

Page 68. — x. Pas de casse-tête psychologique: no complicated problem of psychology,

a. Il ... critique; he offers but Utile occasion for the idle talk of crittctsm.

3. VOUS . . • diables: y ou give yourself a world of trouble.