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at the end. _Les Fortunes Diverses de Chrysomire et de Kalinde_ (Paris, 1635), by a certain Humbert, blazons "love and war" on its very title-page, while _Celandre_ (Paris, 1671), a much later book than most of these, has the rather uncommon feature of a single name for title. Thirty or forty years ago I should have taken some pleasure in "cooking" this batch of mostly early romances into a twenty-page article which, unless it had been unlucky, would have found its way into some magazine or review. Somebody might do so now. But I think it sufficient, and not superfluous, to add this brief sketch here to the notices of similar things in the last volume, in order to show how abundant the crop of French romance--of which even these are only further samples--was at the time. P. 231, l. 9 from bottom.--_Add_ 's (Herman sla lerman's). P. 237, _note_ 2, l. 1.--_For_ "revision" _read_ "revisal." P. 241, 2nd par., last line but two.--_For_ "But" _read_ "Still." P. 278, l. 7 from bottom.--Delete comma at "Thackeray's." P. 286, l. 18.--It occurred to me (among the usual discoveries which one makes in reading one's book after it has passed the irremeable press) that I ought to have said "Planchet's" horse, not "D'Artagnan's." True, as a kindly fellow-Alexandrian (who had not noticed the slip) consoled my remorse by saying, the horse was D'Artagnan's _property_; but the phrase usually implies riding at the moment. And Aramis, brave as he was, would have been sure to reflect that to play a feat of possibly hostile acrobatism on the Gascon, without notice, might be a little dangerous. P. 304, ll. 4 and 7.--Shift "with his wife and mistress" to l. 4, reading "the relations with his wife and mistress of that Henri II.," etc. P. 314, l. 12 from bottom.--_For_ "usual" _read_ "common" (common norm.) P. 338, l. 21.--Delete "in" before "among." P. 381.--One or two reviewers and some private correspondents have expressed surprise at my not knowing, or at any rate not mentioning, the late Professor Morley's publication of _Rasselas_ and a translation of _Candide_ together. I cannot say positively whether I knew of it or not, though I must have done so, having often gone over the lists of that editor's numerous "libraries" to secure for my students texts not overlaid with commentary. But I can say very truthfully that no slight whatever was intended, in regard to a scholar who did more than almost any other single man to "vu
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