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East, Algiers and America, garnering every where a 

 rich store of knowledge. In 1838, he was appointed 

 to the chair of foreign literature, at Eennes, and recalled, 

 two years later, to Paris, viz : in 1840, where he con- 

 tinued until 1846, in charge of the Library of Public 

 Instruction ; he became subsequently librarian of the 

 Library of Ste. Genevieve. 



On the 19th May, 1870, he was elected to the French 

 Academy to replace an eminent savant, M. de Pon- 

 gerville, deceased. In 1879, as Chancellor of the Aca- 

 demy, the duty devolved on him of pronouncing the 

 academical doge of the great statesman and historian, 

 M. Thiers, late President of the French Eepublic. 



A busy and prolonged literary career, 1830-1892, 

 furnished the indefatigable, keen-witted traveller rare 

 opportunities to indite books and for adding volume to 

 volume, until the yearly, increasing series represented 

 nearly a small library, of delightful and instructive 

 reading, be it said. (1) 



Various, indeed, were the experiences of this many- 

 sided author. 



One is wafted in his wake from the " flowery banks 

 of the Seine," so sweetly sung by Madame Deshoulieres, 

 to the grim battlefields of the Empire, across the border, 



(1) (Euvres d/Xavier Marmier. Lettres surl'Irlande. Lettres 

 sur la Russie. Histoire de la litterature en Danemark et en 

 Suede. Histoire de Suede et du Danemark. Du Rhin au Nil. 

 Lettres sur l'Amerique. Lettres sur l'Algerie. Les Voyageurs 

 Nouveaux. Lettres sur l'Adriatique et le Montenegro. Du 

 Danube au Caucase. Un ete au bord de la Baltique. Sou- 

 venirs de Voyage. Chants du Nord. Lettres sur le Nord. Les 

 Fiances du Spitzburg. Les Hasards de la Vie. En Alsace. 

 Grazida. Helene et Suzanne. Memoires d'un Orphelin. Sous 

 les sapins. De l'Est a l'Ouest. En Amerique et en Europe. 

 L'Arbre de Noel. Les voyages du Nil, a la recherche de 

 l'Ideal. Robert Bruce, comment on reconquert un Royaume. 

 En'pays lointains. Nouveaux recits de Voyage. Contes popu- 

 lates de differents pays. Nouvelles du Nord. Legendes des 

 Plantes. 



