verdissante, ' like a tree just beginning to sprout

I. 27. le don supérieur de la -vie, ' the life-giving power, highest of ail gifts.'

Page 61. 11. 6-7. Béranger (1780-1857); Jasmin (1798- 1864); Pierre Dupont (1821-70), are the niost popular of FVench song-writers,

Pa«.e 67. il. 31-2. /^t^jj-w/V;-, Mathurin (1573-1613) ; Fillon, François {1431-84) ; Saint- Amant (i 594-1 661). Olivier Basselin (fifteenth century) is known by his drinking-songs, called vaux de lire froiu the vales of Vire, in Normandy, where the poet lived. Hence came the word vaude^'ille, afterwards applied to lively comédies with songs interspersed.

Page: 68. 1. 12. perfervidum ingenium Scotorum, * the fervid genius of the Scots.'

Page 70. I. 12. Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (1766-

II. 14- 15. Tannahill, Robert ( 1774-18 10); Lady Nairn (1766-1845); Robert Nicoll (1814-37), are aniong the bcst Scotch song-writers since Burns.

Page 72. I. 28. Les Méditations (1820) wcrc the first volume of poems publishcd by Lamartine.

1. 32. Les Pauvres Gens and Eviradnus are two poems in the first part of Victor Hugo's Légende des Siècles (1859).

I. 35. Du Bartas (1544-90), the author of La Première Semaine ou la Création, a pocm which had more than thirty éditions in six years, but very soon after sank into oblivion.

A i.'Amif. Perdue.

Page 76. I. t. For a summary of the Poem see Introduction, pp. xxviii-xxix.

II. 9-14. Thf rime-schcmc of the tercets is abc cba, a schcmc not uncommon in Knglish sonnets, but exccptional in Frcnch. This was brought about by the relaxing of one «)f the strictcst rulcs of French versification. Tremblants and

je l'aimai are two diflcrcnt masculine rimes in immédiate succession. Now, evcr since the Renaissance, Frcnch pocts havc agreed that masculine and féminine cndings should