JNUTJM3 1 Schoolmen * who adapted Aristotle's philosophy to the Catholic religion. Sainte-Beuve (1804-69), French critic and essayist, admired and imitated by Matthew Arnold, who says that * as a guide to bring us to a knowledge of the French genius and literature he is unrivalled.' He was a regular contributor from the outset to the Revue des Deux Mondes. His chief writings are his Portraits and Causeries du Lundi, Belvedere, literally ' fine prospect.' Hence, a balcony from which a fine view is obtained. Colonel Newcome, Fred Bayham, Mr. Barnes, characters in Thackeray's famous novel. Northeote, a cynical and eccentric old painter and Royal Acad- emician, a friend of Hazlitt's, who himself began life as an artist. Hazlitt published his Conversations in 1830. quality of mercy. Merchant of Venice, iv. i. Circumlocution Office. From Little Dorrit, where, as in Bleak House, Dickens ridicules * Red Tape' in Public Departments. careless of the single life. In Memoriam, stanza LV. Sir Thomas Lucy, the owner of Charlecote Manor near Stratford. According to tradition Shakespeare had to flee to London because he had shot the deer in Charlecote Park. He afterwards ridiculed him as Justice Shallow in Henry IV and the Merry Wives of Windsor. Atlas, the giant who, according to Greek mythology, held up the world on his shoulders. He was turned into stone by Hercules, and is the modern Gibraltar. Pharaoh. See Exodus, chap. v. Master of the Ceremonies. So Marcus Aurelius speaks of God in the Meditations, XVI PULYIS ET UMBRA This essay is described by the author as a ' Darwinian Sermon.* While accepting the doctrine of evolution, Stevenson dwells on the glorious paradox of a moral sense persisting in a universe which does so little to encourage it. The same train of thought runs through much of In Memoriam. After his dangerous illness of 1884, a new note appears in Stevenson's writings, and he himself confesses that here ' the lights are turned a little low.5 But, he hastens to add, * there is nothing in it but the moral side,—the great battle and the breathing times and their refreshments.* The title, c Dust and Shadow,' is taken from his favourite Horace (Odes, iv. 7) : Nos, ubi decidimus Quo pater Aeneas, quo dives Tuttus et Anous, Pulvis et umbra swnus. We, soon as thrust, Where good Aeneas, Tullus, Ancus, went, What are we ? Dust!