L'Œdipe à Colone. One of Sophocles' tragédies

Page 151. — i. Mais . . . habituel: but the world and men as they are in their everyday life.

Page 152. — z. L'École des Chartes, founded in 1821, reorganized in 1840, is one of the various French schools comprised under the name of schools for superior éducation (Enseignement Supérieur). Its object is to prépare young men for the posts of librarians or of keepers of archives. The course of studies lasts three years, during which the students, who must possess the degree of B.A. before their admission to the school, are trained in paleography, bibliography, romance languages, diplomatie science, history of the French institutions, ancient law, and mediaeval archaeology. The number of students is limited to twenty. V École des Chartes is situated in Paris, near the Place de la Bastille, but it will soon be removed to the New Sorbonne, Quartier Latin. (Paul Meyer.) M. Paul Méyer is the présent directeur of the École des Chartes.

2. Le Val de Grâce. A military hospital in Paris. It was, before the French Révolution, a convent of Bénédictines, under the name of Val de la Grâce de Notre-Dame de la Crèche ; it had been founded by Anne d'Autriche, the wife of Louis XIII., king of France.

Page 153. — x. Courbevoie. In the department of La Seine,*, few miles from Paris.

2. Les ratés : those men whose life has been afailure. Raté, verbal noun, from rater, to miss one's aim ; hence, to fail.

3. Le Tasse. Torquato Tasso (1 544-1 595), the author of the epic poem Jérusalem Delivered.