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As they retired the Germans burned many of the occupied French villages, pursuing their usual policy. As many as forty fires were observed on the horizon at one time as the Allies advanced. Soissons was retaken on August 2, and the valley of the Crise was crossed by the Allies, who dominated the plains in the German rear with their big guns.

As he noticed the distress under which I was laboring, the physician kindly said before I left him: "I repeat, that I do not apprehend a recurrence of what happened last night but, si par impossible une autre crise semblable survenait, rappelez-vous bien que, meme suivie de syncope, elle ne serait jamais mortelle."

After all the French have a better phrase for it 'La Crise de quarante ans." The Nurse and Divorcée had been very quiet, but here they locked hands, and the former remarked that they prepared to withdraw: "That is our cue to disappear and you, too, Youngster. These men are far too wise."

Le Gouvernement Impérial s'est efforcé dès les débuts de la crise de la mener

Nevertheless those who think the author of Monsieur de Cantors timid and insipid are only short-sighted critics. I advise my readers when they have finished the last page of The Dangerous Age to re-read La Crise. They will observe many points of resemblance, notably in the "journal" portion of the latter.

After wading through pages of the long-winded confusion and second-hand information of the "Philosophic Positive," at the risk of a crise cérébrale it is as good as a shower-bath to turn to the "Classification of the Sciences," and refresh oneself with Mr. Spencer's profound thought, precise knowledge, and clear language.

'In the evening, said Bunel, 'Lemonier en eut une crise de nerfs dans laquelle il avait perdu connaissance. Leaving the boys' sworn evidence, and returning to the narrative with its gossip, we learn that Thorel boasted of his success, and said that, if he could but touch one of the lads again, the furniture would dance, and the windows would be broken.

We lived together in peace for ten years, those trinkets and I ... Now, I don't know why, we have suddenly fallen out...." These words from La Crise contain the argument of The Dangerous Age. And yet I will wager that Karin Michaëlis never read La Crise.

If the Russian Government gives no satisfactory reply to our demand, Your Excellency will please transmit this afternoon 5 o'clock (mid-European time) the following statement: "Le Gouvernement Impérial s'est efforcé dès les débuts de la crise de la mener

Heureusement pour vous, l'institution monarchique vous permettra de traverser la crise qu'entrainera la modification de la composition et de l'esprit de la Chambre des Communes. Grace a cette institution, l'esprit politique du pays pourra retablir l'equilibre entre les pouvoirs publics.