&c).] No reader guesses in our time what a shining celestial body the Maupertuis, who is now fallen so dim again, then was to mankind.

In cultivated French society there is no such lion as M.Maupertuis since he returned from flattening the Earth in the Arctic regions.

"The Exact Sciences, what else is there to depend on ?" thinks French cultivated society: "and has not Monsieur done a feat in that line ?" Monsieur, with fine ex-military manners, has a certain austere gravity, reticent loftiness and polite dogmatism, which confirms that opinion.

A studious ex-military man,--was Captain of Dragoons once, but too fond of study,--who is conscious to himself, or who would fain be conscious, that he is, in all points, mathematical, moral and other, the man.

A difficult man to live with in society.