Charlotte, the heroine of " Sorrows of Werther,'* a novel

which appeared in 1774, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the greatest modem poet of Germany and ihe patriarch of German literature. He was bom at Frank£ort-on-the-Maine, August 28, 1749; died at Weimar, March 22, 1832.

- 10, En revanche, in retnm,

16. On peut icn jier à mon imagination, this may be trusted to my imagination.

16. Je la fais si belle,,,, 1 picture her faultlessly beautiful.

24. Clèveland, "Histoire de M. Gleveland, Fils naturel do Gromwell/' by Antoine François Prévost d'Exilés, a French writer, bom in 1697, at Hesdin, in Artoii ; died in 1763.

60, 2. Par distraction, unwittingly.

14. Cette canaille, thèse villainoos créatures. From Italian canaglia, from cane, dog. The French word was chiennaille. ** XIII^ Siède : Du mal qa% nous feisons à cest chiennaille ne prendra jà garde cil qu'il apelent Seigneur." — ^Littré's Bictionary.

61, 2. Ossian (Homer, Hilton, Virgil are too well known to

need a note), ''a mythical Gaelio hero and bard, is said to hâve lived in the third century, and to bave

' been the son of Fingal, a Galedonian hero, whom he

accompanied in various military expéditions. His

I name has derived its modem celebrity from the