apprentif. the old spelling for apprenti

57. sans en faire le moins du monde, etc., triihout using Ihem in any way whatever a* an introduction to his own work.

64. de voir ferrailler les amours-propres, to see the clash of per^ sonal vanities.

68. Qulen haga aplloaclones, etc. Literally, whoever makes applications should eat his bread by himself y i. e., sfumld keep his own coimsel.

78. cette curieuse môlée. The discussion between the classicists, and •conservatives on the one hand, and the romanticists on the other. II n'aura pas la fatuité de le relever. In spite oi t'nis disclaimer, it can hardly be said that Hugo remained a passive David, allowing his sling and stones to fall into the hands of others.

161. Hérodote (484424 b.c.), is known as the Father of History.

162. Uals C'est surtout dans la tragédie antique, etc. Compare E. Faguet, Drame Aneien, Drame Moderne p. 88:— £a tror

gijèdie grecque a eommencS par être un récit épique, chanté et dansé. This book by Faguet is very suggestive and should be read by all who are attempting to make a study of the growth of the dramatic idea in French literature.

184. groBBissent leur toIz, etc. The mouthpieces of the masks worn by the Grecian actors were so constructed as to increase the volume of the voice. The cothumue, the actor's footcovering, was made with a very thick sole, so as to increase the height of the wearer.

180. Prométhée, a reference to thtB PrometTieus Bound, a tragedy by ^schylus (525-456 b.c.), wherein Prometheus, bound to a rock by order of Zeus for having brought fire to earth resists all the efforts which are made to overcome his spirit, defies the gods, and finally vanishes in the midst of a great storm. Antigone, daughter of Œdipus, former king of Thebes, is here described as looking for her brother Polynices, who comes back with the army of the seven chiefs to fight against his brother Eteocles, the present Theban king. Eteocles had broken a compact with Polynices, whereby the brothers were to rule alternate years.

102. lOB FhénlcieimeB, a tragedy by Euripides, based upon the same story as the Seven against TTiebes, of JSschylus.

104. les Buppliantes d'Euripide. Capaneus was one of the seven heroes who marched' from Argos against Thebes. He was struck with lightning by Zeus, while scaling the city walls, because he had defied him, and while his body was being consumed, his wife Evadne leaped down from the walls into the flames and ended her own life.

106. les Buppliantes d'iBschyle. In this tragedy the fifty daughters of Danaus who had fled with their father f ropi Egypt to Argos, to avoid marrying their cousins, the fifty sons of ^gyptus, find an asylum with Pelasgrus, the Argive king.

210. Achille traînant Hector. According to one of the legends, after Hector had been slain by Achilles, he was fastened to the latter*s chariot and -dragged three times around the city walls.

248. Pythagore (from about 582-500 b.c.), Epicure (842-270 b.c.), Bocrate (468-399 b.c.), Platon (429-847 b.c.), the greatest of the Grecian philosophers.

200. AJax, son of Oîleus, king of the Locrians, often spoken of as the lesser AJax, one of the heroes of the Trojan war, who on

returning home was shipwrecked. Getting safely upon a rock he hoastedthat he would escape in spite of the gods who had provoked the storm, whereat Neptune split the rock with his trident, and Ajax was swallowed up by the sea. Achille Taut Mars. Achilles (leader of the Greeks) is as ffreat as Mar$ (the god of battle).