Cremille was minister at the time

302. 1. This admirable epigram, like the preceding, is devoted to the luckless Nivelle de la Chaussée, the great practitioner of Comédie Lar?noyatite.

314. 5. It is scarcely necessary to give the obvious key to this scene by explaining that Dorante is really in love with Araminte, and that Dubois is in his confidence.

318. 18. Marianne, a poor orphan, has received a présent of handsome clothes and résolves to display them in church.

323. 26. The scene passes in Louisiana. Manon is escaping from penal servitude ; her lover, the Chevalier des Grieux, who has followed her when she was transported, has fought a duel with a kinsman of the governor because of her.

331. 27. The biographers of Montesquieu do not accept this excellent and admirably told story. According to them the authorities did attempt to frighten Montesquieu, though there was no serious intention of harming him. But this does not matter.

343. 25. One of Restif’s chief oddities was his System of spelling and word-connection. It is faithfully represented here.

372. 5. Ces jours, the Wednesdays on which the Mercuriales, from one of which this extract is taken, were pronounced.

376. 7. This adaptation of Sophocles is a capital example of the style noble of the eighteenth century.

378. 14. To appreciate the excellence of this it must be remembered that it was actually written like an ordinary critique on a first night, and that the author was the person at whom the piece was aimed. The principal philosophes are indicated here either by anagrams or transparent descriptions ; thus Dortidius

Noies.

is Diderot ; the Prophète de Bôhmischbroda refers to a jeu d'esprit of Grimm’s, etc.

384. 17. Il is Rivarol himself; the reporter of the words is Chênedollé.

389. 11. Marcellus was not only a Royalist minister, but noteworthy for a kind of romanticism.

394. 28. V teux poëte grec. This refers to the last stage of the ancient and modem quarrel, of which a specimen has been given p.