De Goncourt, see page 78, note

Page 23. 1. Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de (1707-1788), French naturalist and writer, author of Histoire naturelle.

2. nos modernes imagistes, the American so-called imagist poets of the présent day. See Some Imagist PoetSj an anthology (Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1916, 1917).

Page 24. 1. le réalisme et l'impressionnisme, two contemporary currents of French literature and art, from about 1850 to 1900. On impressioniffln see page 85, note 1.

2. japonisant, one who collects Japanese works of art. — de la première heure, one ànumg the veryfirst.