Le tirent à eux: claim him as one ofthemselves

7. Auber. A famous French composer, author of La Muette de Portiei, Le Domino Noir, Fra Diavolo, Les Diamants de la Couronne, etc. (1782-

8. Bouguereau. A modem French painter, known for the correctness of his drawing and the good quality of his coloring ; but the disciples of the new school reproach him with conventionality in the subjects of his pictures and in the way they are Handled, and refuse to look on him as a true artist. Bouguereau is one of the professors of the École des Beaux- Arts in Paris, and a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Page 117. — 1. Claude Monet. A famous painter of the Impressionistic school. He is looked upon as a great master by the disciples of that school. Monet is now living a very retired life in a s m ail village of Normandy, Giverney.

2. " Fin de littérature." This expression is difficult to translate ; it means anything out of the usual range of literature, and is generally applied to the symbolistes, baudelairistes, décadents, etc., and to ail the new writers, in fact, who believe that the old and the présent ways of expressing ourselves are superannuated, conventional, false, and should be replaced by something new and original. See above, page 116, notes 2, 3, and 4.

3. C'est ... baroque: it is the strangest gibberish and nonsense. Cha-

rabia, properly the Arabian language ; then, by extension, it has corne to mean anything unintelligible. The adjective baroque is applied to anything which présents a strange irregularity.

4. Le plus saugrenu : the most absurd. Saugrenu, composed of sel and grenu, properly au gros sel, au sel grenu.