twelve."

adventurer called RougeviUe who as his recently published
" With best respects,
in which Mademoiselle de Belleisle serves as a type. It has
diluted by the modest bravery of his father and the sober
356 ; definition of duty 365
easy-chair, lay a venerable silver-haired lady, whose hand
twenty years after Sir Walter's death, and at a time when
Porte Saint Martin was about to produce Dumas' version
numbered by the enemy, had to withdraw to Compiegne.
1790
become historical. Here the landlord, by way of honouring
qualities. Admirable in the portrayal of manners, character
dealing with comparatively recent history is purely fanciful,
if with any of his various partners he could bring off a
this " excellent worthy and noble veteran," received from

Larrey, once the Surgeon-in-chief of Napoleon's armies,
just now."
An account of the " Seven
specter gave orders to kill off some of the wild pigs which
suggested only certain works of Corucillc and Racine which
so delighted with her success that, in Dorval fashion, she
Alexandre Dumas pere (series Les Grands jfccrivains francais)
drama
not forgetting the wondrous imagination which underlies
subscriptions ultimately reached 2,500 an amount which
be commended as applicable to a man who stood nearly
those in which his friend Polydore Millaud had an interest.
to wait awhile in the adjoining bedroom, and he got the
as fast as the pen could travel. Some one begged leave to
Paris by storm. The publishers, however, were not so san-