[617]. Paris, 1894.
[618]. Paris, 1891.
[619]. Begun in 1844, finished in 1861, and often reprinted.
[620]. In his later days, too, the very disgust at being himself kept from producing literature kept him from dealing with it, and threw him upon the theatrical and artistic subjects in which he had indeed a great, but only a secondary, interest.
[621]. There are some very noteworthy things in the early articles recovered and reprinted posthumously in Fusains et Eaux-Fortes (Paris: 1890).
[622]. Vol. i. p. 19.
[623]. But never, I think, without date—a blessing for which one cannot be too truly thankful to M. Du Camp or somebody else.
[624]. He seems to have canonised himself: his godfathers and godmothers had been contented to call him Marc.
[625]. The Cours, in 5 vols. (afterwards 4), (Paris, 1843 sq.); the Essais, in 2 (Paris, 1845).
[626]. It is fair to say that Sainte-Beuve’s references to him are not quite trustworthy. There was probably some jealously.