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.

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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.