Doctor Graziano, or Baloardo Grazian, is a pedant, a philosopher, grammarian, rhetorician, astronomer, cabalist, a savant of the first water, boasting of his degree from Bologna, trailing the gown of that august university.

Egypt, I chanced to learn how a certain Arab contracted to excavate a big stone weighing ever so many tons, and which the learned savant could not see how they were ever going to get out of the deep hole.

He differs also from Paul Bourget, who as a German savant counts how many microbes are in a drop of spoiled blood, who is pleased with any ferment, who does not care for healthy souls, as a doctor does not care for healthy peopleand who is fond of corruption.

They appear bad, good, indifferent, all classes, from ministers, bankers, great merchants, to simple soldiers or rascals without any professionsfinally the doctor stops readingand looking with his eyes of savant at his niece, asks: "Well, what now?"

One eminent savant, in this department of philosophical wisdom, absolutely published a bulky volume on the principles of hair-dressing, and followed itso highly was it prizedby a no less ponderous supplement.

For quite an hour her father fingered the three seal-impressions, discussing them with her in the language of a savant.

After years of secret attempts, it was at last open war; the savant saw his household turn against his opinions, and menace them with destruction.

This apostle, this martyr, was born to affluence; son of an illustrious savant, he may be almost said to have been born to hereditary distinction.

[Footnote 40: Flourens was born in 1838, and was the son of the well-known savant and physiologist of this name.

M. de Meneval, author of several books on Napoleon's career, has left it on record that the "M.S. venu de Sainte Helene" was written by M. Frederic Lullin de Chateauvieux, "genevois deja connu dans le monde savant.

And when some one objected: "Yet Chrysippus, whom you praise and imitate, has composed many more," the savant retorted: "But they are a help to the conduct of men's lives."

I remember, too, meeting Professor Tyndall at Mr. Chamberlain's table, and was struck by the simple modesty of the eminent savant.

While it would be a pleasure, no doubt, to see you transformed into an artist or a savant, yet that is scarcely to be expected, and, if attained, might not be quite enough.

L 'ESPRIT PRÉCOCE Pic de la Mirandole, savant italien, se distingua par une précocité extraordinaire, en même temps que par la hardiesse de ses thèses en philosophie.

" Dans quel domaine le savant italien s'est-il distingué?A-t-il été un enfant stupide?S'est-on aperçu de bonne heure de ses dons?Comment un certain maladroit a-t-il voulu rabaisser son prix?Quelle repartie spirituelle le jeune prince a-t-il trouvée? Racontez cette histoire en 100 mots.

At St. Sulpice he showed special aptitudes for the study of Hebrew, in which he was assisted and encouraged by M. le Hir, "the most remarkable person," in his opinion, "whom the French clergy has produced in our days," a "savant and a saint," who had mastered the results of German criticism as they were found in the works of Gesenius and Ewald.

He says: "First of all, it is only right to say that Colonel de Rochas is a savant who seeks nothing but objective truth and does so with a scientific strictness and integrity that have never been questioned.

He had, therefore, for some quiet weeks laid aside the sword, and the gentleman had become again the royal poet and savant, who divided his time between music and poetry, between serious studies and writing to his friends, to whom he sent letters, in which his great and elevated manner of thinking, his soul above prejudice, were displayed in all their beauty and power.

It is not a written code; at best it consists of a few maxims handed down from mouth to mouth or coming from the pen of some well-known warrior or savant.

A typical samurai calls a literary savant a book-smelling sot.

An acute French savant, M. de la Mazelière, thus sums up his impressions of the sixteenth century:"Toward the middle of the sixteenth century, all is confusion in Japan, in the government, in society, in the church.

And Des Esseintes, gazing at one of the folios opened on his chapel desk, smiled at the thought that the moment would soon come when an erudite scholar would prepare for the decadence of the French language a glossary similar to that in which the savant, Du Cange, has noted the last murmurings, the last spasms, the last flashes of the Latin language dying of old age in the cloisters and sounding its death rattle.

I am prepared with the evidence, if it is asked for by some savant who happens not to know it.]

Joseph Henry, the most venerable savant of them all, took his place at the receiver.

Pity that they should have come to an end before she did so; for at the rate at which things were going, we should all at least have been crowned on the Capitol, if not made Roman senators, pour l'amour du Grec, as the savant says in the Précieuses Ridicules, if we had gone to the Eternal City!