Sully-Prudhomme. See article Daudet, page 48, note

9. Henri Heine. A great German poet and writer of strong personality. He was a very complex and paradoxical nature. A Jew by birth, he was baptized a Christian, — a step which proved to be one of the most unfortunate of his life. He lived a long time in Paris, where he consorted with the greatest writers then living in Paris. He died there in 1856, after many years of intense suffering.

xo. Alfred de Vigny (1797- 1863). A French romantic poet, author of Eloa, Poèmes Antiques et Modernes. His best-known novel is Cinq- Mars, a romance based on history and dealing with the great min is ter Richelieu.

11. Les Fleurs du Mal, by Beaudelaire. See article Paul Bourget, page 78, note 7.

ia. Balzac- See article Pierre Loti, page 108, note 1.

13. Madame Bovary et l'Education sentimentale, by Gustave Haubert. See article Loti, page 110, note 4.