An extraordinarily keen study of the French people, for which the salient qualities of the Gallic spirit form a basis—taste, reverence, continuity, intellectual honesty.
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.
Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.
In this edition, on page 118, a line was repeated and another line was omitted. The text has been corrected using the 1925 Grosset & Dunlap edition as a reference.