A califourchon : astride

6. Tel, cet Aymerillot. . . . Allusion to the young hero of that name in Victor Hugo's Légende des Siècles (ist séries), who took the city of Narbonne (Languedoc).

Page 213. — 1. La " moyenâgerie." Neologism. The sham représentation of any object or pièce of furniture of mediaeval times.

Page 214. — 1 . Sainte-Beuve. See article Paul Bourget, page 74, note 3. 2. Taine. See (second) article Renan, page 18, note 2.

3. Adolphe. A novel by Benjamin Constant. See article Paul Bourget, page 85, note 5.

4. Fromentin. A modem French painter and author. Most of his pictures are reproductions of Eastern life, and admirably true in their local coloring. As a writer he published an account of his travels in Le Pays y under the titles of Visites Artistiques and Simples Pèlerinages, and a successf ul romance, Dominique.

5. Marc-Aurèle. Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor and philosopher.

6. Kant (1724-1804). A great German philosopher. His Philosophie critique or Idéalisme subjectif changed the face of the philosophical world, and created a new system of philosophy. He is considered as the father of criticism and founder of Idealistic philosophy.

7. Schopenhauer (1 788-1860). The well-known pessimist philosopher. His chief book, The World as IVill and Idea, expounds the logic, the metaphysic, the aesthetic, and the ethic of his view. As to religion, his préférences were for Buddhism and Mysticism, and Anchoretic Christianity, rather than for the reigning forms of religion and Kationalistic Theism.