Montaigne. See article Renan, page 13, note

4. Prenez ... M. Sarcey : beware lest the fillip darted at Sarcey>s nose /ail pat upon Voltaire'' s.

Page 127. — 1. C'est . . . appuyé: it is genuine, plentiful, for cible. a. René, Obermann. Names of heroes of novels, the first by Château* briand (see article Loti, page 99, note 3), the other by Sénancour.

3. Au . . . plume : currente calamo, i.e. without préparation.

4. Chapelle. A French writer and poet of the seventeenth century. He has written, in collaboration with Bachaumont, a Voyage en Provence et en Languedoc, full of wit and mirth.

Page 128. — 1. La . . . "artiste." Those expressions are applied to such writers as the brothers de Goncourt, who, like Walter Pater, the famous English writer, pick up their words with the greatest and minutest care in order to render the sentences as perfect as possible, but sometimes overdoing the thing by wishing to be pure artists, and consequently making their writings appear " nervous " and sometimes morbid.

a. Ceux . . . plaindre : those who try to gain admittance into every house, as I do, are mue h to be pitied : they seldom hâve a home of their <nvn ; Le. the critics who, like me, try to understand and to penetrate the mysteries of the various schools of modem literature> often do it because their mind has no resting-place ofits own ; and they are to be pitied.