[1086]. 2nd ed., 3 vols., Paris, 1857.
[1087]. A very large part (about two-thirds) of the 1st volume is occupied by Chateaubriand.
[1088]. Lamartine (with whom Vinet is, of course, more comfortable) and Hugo have about three-fourths of the 2nd vol. between them. In this and the 3rd, Béranger, Delavigne, Sainte-Beuve, Quinet, Michelet, and many others, figure.
[1089]. ii. 387-412.
[1090]. It is fair to say that much of his work, being posthumously published, is lecture, and might, if he had lived, have been worked up by him into a better form.
[1091]. In the article on Saint-Marc Girardin, which concludes the third volume.
[1092]. 8th ed., 2 vols., Geneva, 1901.
[1093]. Nor can I recognise his description of Amiel’s treatment of a literary subject at p. xix of the Introduction—“Il l’embrasse, mais au dehors.” Alas! the Lucretian nequicquam comes in here again: but I should say that few men’s critical embraces were more intimate than Amiel’s, brief as they are.
[1094]. i. 12.
[1095]. i. 17.