lus, La Bruyère wrote lu

Pagre 9. — I. qui tendent, pôssibly for quHls tendent^ but more probably another instance of the construction seen before; cf. page 2, note 2.

2, 3. Porus is a character in Racine's Alexandre. — Burrhns is in Racine's Britannicus,

4. Oedipe was a success at the time, but is no longer placed beside Horace.

Pagre 10. — I. Euripide, the editors call attention to the likeness that this comparison of the two great tragic poets bears to a Parallèle de M. Corneille et de M. Racine^ written in 1686 by Hilaire-Bernard, baron de Longepierre (i 659-1 721), a médiocre essayist and unsuccessful playwright.

Pagre 11. — I. L'on écrit régulièrement, etc.; this review of French literature might well hâve gone back ten years farther, to Pascal's Lettres provinciales. Notice the essential qualitities of French style, *' ordre" and "netteté" (line 15).

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