[834]. xii. 245.
[835]. Mélanges et Lettres, 4 vols., Paris: 1876-77.
[836]. Op. cit., i. 34 sq.
[837]. Printed in vol. iv.
[838]. i. 432.
[839]. i. 521.
[840]. ii. 389.
[841]. iii. 128.
[842]. iv. 151.
[843]. Not a little of the later published Pensées (Paris, 1880) is definitely literary in subject; but the book is a small one, and its contents seem to me to lack something of the absolute spontaneity and privacy of the larger and earlier collection. There are, however, noteworthy things; let me mention, as one of several for honour, the important dictum, p. 24, that “une forte mémoire ne dénature pas assez ce qu’on imite,” where Doudan trembles on the verge of that truth which so few have reached, that art is disrealisation. Not so good is the wish that Scott had attempted Wellington or Napoleon as a hero, for it shows that Doudan was unwilling to accept (what nevertheless, as the context shows, he half saw) the cardinal law of the Historical Novel, that the main personages must not be historical.