les Oreades. "thc n^ountain-nymphs

Page 23. 1. 2\. Mrs. Dunhp, an old Scotch lady, descended from Wallacc. Shc \sas onc of the earlicst admirers and inosl faithful corresjK)ndcnts of the poet.

Page 24. I. 30. Clannda, the poetical pscudonyni of Anna C.raig, who becainc Mrs. Mac Lchose, the intelligent and romantic ladv with whoni Burns fcll in love at Kdiuburgh.

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Page 25. 1. lo. du déploiement de la fomille dans une âme paternelle ... i.e. of the graduai growth of home feelings and duties in a father's soul.

Page 28. 1. 24. Gilbert, Robert Burns' brothcr.

Page 37. 1. 33. Un vigoureux esprit, i.e. Hippolyte Taine (1828-93). See the Introduction to hh Littérature anglaise, which appeared in 1863. See also the Introduction to this volume, pp. xx-xxiii.

Page 39. 1. 8. Cassitéride, one of the isles so called by the Greeks because they fumished them with tin (Kaaa-irfpos). They are supposed to be the sanie as the Scilly Islands.

Page 44. 1. 3. un romancier contemporain, i.e. Emile Zola (1840-1902), who issued a séries of novels under the common title of ' The Natural History of a family under the Second Empire,'

1. 22. le remarquable ouvrage, i.e. Taine's History of English Literature.

Page 45. 1. 17. Biskra, a town in the south of Algeria and on the confines of the Sahara.

Page 53. 1. 14. Fromentin, Eugène (1820-76), a French painter, art critic, and novelist.

1. 16. Sainte-Beuve (1804-69), the greatest of French literary critics in the nineteenth century.

Page 57. I. 8. L'image d'Epinal. Épinal, in the Vosges, is famous among French boys for its illustrated and coloured half-penny broadsides.

Page 58. 1. 12. démiéx, i.e. dénudés, ' naked.'