approach. His death passed almost unnoticed by his contemporaries.

Although at the time of his death he was seventy-five years of age, as
Colle records in his journal, "he did not seem to be fifty-eight."[167] He
had that gift, which none but his own light-hearted time has known, of
warding off, if not old age itself, at least the appearance of it. And
from that first half of the eighteenth century, that period of perennial
youth, have come down to us those ever fresh and rose-hued creations,
which are our charm to-day, recalling, as they do, a society long past, a
brilliancy of wit, of conversation well-nigh forgotten, a gayety, a
thoughtlessness, which we of the money-loving, practical, and scientific
twentieth century may long for, but not know.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE WORKS OF MARIVAUX.

(_Taken from the third appendix of Larroumet's "Marivaux", edition
of 1882, pp. 592-596._)

[Note: T.I. indicates the _Theatre-Italien_ and T.F. the _Theatre-
Francais_.]

1706. _Le Pere prudent et equitable, ou Crispin l'heureux fourbe_,
comedy in one act, in verse, printed in 1712.

1712. _Pharsamon, ou les Folies romanesques_, novel in ten parts,
printed in 1737.

1713-1714. _Les Aventures de..., ou les Effets surprenants de la
sympathie_, novel in five volumes.
_La Voiture embourbee_, novel in one volume.

1715. _Le Triomphe du Bilboquet, ou la Defaite de l'Esprit, de l'Amour
et de la Raison._

1717. _L'Iliade travestie_, in twelve books and in verse,
_Le Telemaque travesti_, in three books, printed in 1736.

1717-1718. Five _Lettres contenant une aventure_, four _Lettres a
madame..., contenant des reflexions sur la populace, les bourgeois
et les marchands, les hommes et les femmes de qualite,--et les
beaux esprits_, in _le Mercure_ for August, September and
October, 1717, March and June, 1718.

1717. _Portrait de Climene, ode anacreontique_ in _le Mercure_ for
September,
_Lettre ecrite a l'auteur du Mercure_ (October), to object to the
agnomen of _Theophraste moderne_.

1719. _Pensees sur divers sujets: sur la clarte du discours, sur la
pensee sublime_, in _le Mercure_ for March.

1720. March 4. _L'Amour et la Verite_, comedy in three acts, in
collaboration with the Chevalier de Saint-Jory. T.I.
_Prologue_ inserted in _le Mercure_ for March.
October 19. _Annib