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position; but it has few distinguishing 

 claims as literature. At the end of the 

 book there are more than fifty pages of 

 notes embracing a large amount of matter 

 highly valuable to those who have not 

 access to the works from which it is taken. 

 These notes are mostly in French, or refer 

 to French books, and they will be found a 

 good guide to the general reader, as well 

 as to the special student of Montaigne 

 literature. 



The author gently criticizes Emerson 

 for ranking Montaigne with representative 

 men, or rather objects to the " American 

 looseness of terminology " by the use of 

 which Emerson failed to make clear just 

 what he meant by the word " representa- 

 tive " ; and she goes on to say that Mon- 

 taigne " was of that order of mind which, 

 however readily active in response to ex- 

 ternal stimulus, is wanting in the inner 

 springs of action, and having neither the 

 coordinating nor the volitional impulse, is 

 content to accept the world fragmentarily, 

 as it is presented in experience, and seeks 

 neither to remold it in actuality to an 

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