[854]. Especially, some may say, when he does not like you, or what you like.
[855]. This was probably due to the influence of Taine, with whom (as he once told me in an interesting letter in regard to some published remarks of mine) he at one time took much critical counsel.
[856]. See the opening piece, “Du Caractère Anglais,” of Essais sur la Littérature Anglaise (Paris, 1883).
[857]. Nos Morts Contemporains, ii. 199 (Paris, 1884).
[858]. In Poètes et Artistes de l’Italie. He was much pleased with the eulogy which I was able to bestow on this. M. Scherer was not—I cannot tell why, for certainly jealousy of praise given to somebody else was not one of his faults. Probably he did not like Boccaccio—or Alaciel.
[859]. In the book already cited and its companion, Écrivains Modernes de l’Angleterre (Paris, 1885).
[860]. In the first series of Nos Morts Contemporains, but written long before “Théo’s” death, in 1865.
[861]. Écrivains Modernes de l’Angleterre, as above.
[862]. 10 of Études Critiques sur la Littérature (Paris, 1863-89), besides separate ones on Diderot, on Grimm, &c. I myself translated and edited his Essays on English Literature (London, 1891).
[863]. That is, since the period of the Reformation. I do not think he knew much of older date.