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2 11: mirifique: a mock-heroic synonym for merveilleux. bien autre: bien in its common intensive use, 'quite. Bien frequently adds to a passage a shade of meaning which can be rendered in English only by a complete remodeling of the sentence, e.g. je veux bien 'I have no objection, 'I consent. When autre is preceded by bien or tout, it usually carries the idea of superiority.

87 12 cochinchinoises: 'from Cochin China, a part of Indo-China, at the south of the Siam peninsula, a French colony since its conquest in 1859-1867. 87 16 ce qu'il advint de: 'what became of. Advenir is used only impersonally. 87 20 encore: 'after all. 87 21 d'un placement difficile: 'hard to dispose of.

The janizaries of Algiers became independent in 1669, and dominated the pirate commonwealth. 53 5 Huit jours durant: 'for a whole week. Durant, 'during, is emphatic when it follows its noun, cf. 61 7. 53 7 ces dames: cf. note to 16 13. Cf. Exodus III, 5. 53 11 s'en revenait: Cf. s'en aller 17 4, s'en retourner 2 8. 53 19 poterne: 'postern, a back door, and then, by extension, any small door.

Such works, too, consisting of a continuous narrative, present to most students the discouraging prospect of a formidable undertaking which they fear will never be completed. On the other hand, a mere book of fables, although free from the last objection, is, in general, too narrow in its scope to fulfil the desired end.

Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1871. White Heather, by WILLIAM BLACK. 2 vols. Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1886. The Language and Literature of the Scottish Highlands, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE. Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1876. Altavona, fact and fiction from my Life in the Highlands, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE. Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1882. Crieff. Its Traditions and Characters with anecdotes of Strathearn.

[Note 161: La création de la théologie moderne ou la transformation de la religion en une science abstraite et bientôt scolastique, est exposée avec autant d'instruction que de sagacité dans un ouvrage remarquable, intitulé The scholastic philosophy considered in its relation to christian theology. L'auteur, M. Hampden, professeur royal de théologie

»One fatal remembrance, one sorrow, that throws Its black shade alike o'er our joys and our woes

Note 33: Every thing should be put to its proper use in this world, chaque chose doit être appropriée

"I believe that I shall carry away with me," he said, "many curious observations on my race, its virtues, its faults". And in speaking of the "Lettres de mon moulin," the only volume of his works in which his southern nature is given free rein, he says many years after its publication, after he had written his best novels, "That is still my favorite book."

The bright leafy bark of the Betula tree A flexible sheathing provides; And the fir's thready roots drew the parts to agree And bound down its high-swelling sides.