Darius, king of Persia (521-485 B. C

7. Xercès, Xerxes, son <^ Darius and also king of Persia (485-465 B. C).

Page 183. 1. eussent • • • asiatisé l'Occident, had mode a new Asia of the Western world.

Page 184. 1. qui lui font d'abord rapporter, etc., which make htm first center aU things in himself and then confer upon others the most he can of his own.

Page 186. 1. Verdun. This.editorial of Clemenceau appeared in his newspaper "i' Homme enchaîné,** for February 27, 1916. A few days before, the army of the German Crown Prince attacked Verdun, and the first onrush forced the French to fall back. After many critical tums, however, and due especially to the diversion created by the French and British attacks on the Somme, in July, 1916, the violence of the German. attaok abated, and the French succeeded in recapturing the two important forts of Douaumont and VattXj in October and November, 1916. Clemenoeau's editorial was written in the very first and none too reas- Huring days of the German attack.

2. malgré Brunswick et son manifeste boche, in 1792 a Prussian and Austrian army led by the Duke of Brunswick invaded France. Tho invasion had been preceded by the launchingof a manifesto or proclamation in which Brunswick stated that he was fighting against the Fronch Révolution in behalf of King Louis XVI. Brunswick and his army were defeated by the French at Valmy, September 20, 1792.

3. l'héroïne de la vieille France, Joan of Arc, whose statue at Rouen had been visited and honored, a few days before, by a délégation of the British ParUament.

Page 188. 1. les communiqués, the officiai bulletins or communicatioiis issueil by the headquarters of the beUigerents during the war. 2, [ULB fiévreusement saccadé^ restUss and jerky step.

Page 189. 1. en bloc, in a lump, aU togetheri,

Page 190. 1. de ces Welches, German nickname for French. From the Gefman Woelschf meaning everything foreign, but especially French and Italian.