la partition, the score

Page 44. 1. 15. we sachant où se prendre, not knowing what to think.

1. 19. Tivoli, Caserta. Tivoli (Latin Tihur), a town in Italy near Rome ; it has a strikingly beautiful position on the edge of a cUff. According to legend, it was founded centuries before Rome. Caserta, a town near Naples, celebrated for a huge palace built by Vanvitelli, the architect of St. Peter' s at Rome, in the eighteenth century, for Charles III of Spain, who was then King of both Sicilies.

1. 2L Trianon (le Grand et le Petit), name given to two small castles built in the park at Versailles. The former was built by Louis XIV as a retreat ; in the latter, a small pavilion built by Louis XV, the machinery is still shown by which his supper was sent up through the floor. It was the favourite résidence of Marie Antoinette, who had the garden laid out in English style and loved to live an imaginary peasant hfe there.

Page 45. 1. 28. l'escrime et Téquitation, fencing and riding.

Page 47. 1. 2. Van Dyck et Rubens, two celebrated Flemish

painters of the early seventeenth century. Van Dyck is chiefly noted for his portraits ; lie was a pupil of Rubens. The latter's masterpiece is said to be the ' Descent from the Cross ', now in Antwerp Cathedral.

1. 28. payerons les rmisettes, wiW pay the piper. Musette, a kind of bagpipe.

Page 48. 1. 5. hures de sangliers, boar's heads.

1. 11. Roland dans la retraite de Roncevaux. Roland, nephew of Charlemagne, and one of his bravest gênerais, was killed by treachery in the valley of Roncevaux, where he is said to hâve blown lus horn for help with such vigour that he made a cleft in the rocks, still called the ' Brèche de Roncevaux '.

1. 25. robe de chambre à ramage, flovrered dressing-gown ; ramage sometimes means warbUng ; cf. La Fontaine's Fables, i. 2, Le Corbeau et le Renard :

Sans mentir, si votre ramage Se rapporte à votre plumage.

Vous êtes le phénix des hôtes de ce bois.

Page 49. I. 1. qu'il avait fait un pas de clerc, that he had made a blunder. Clerc, one who works in the office of a lawj^er and is apt to make mistakes through inexpérience.