. Annals of medical history. their horses and let themdrink all tlu water they wanted to when onthe road! As a youtig man In- was lond ol ricli dress,ambit Kuis, pcrha|)s dissii)ated. The ambi-tion iicNcr utterly died out though its natureand end changed with his growth. That hewas dissipated is a possible deduction fromsome of those many frank statements whichha\c to be takiU with a grain of salt. Iha\(. fornurly loM-d cards and dice, butha\i- long since left them oil, (»nl\ for thisreason, thai tlionj^h I i;nr\ m\ losses as MoNiai{;n1, and Mluicine 103 liandsoiiuly as anollur, I was not will
. Annals of medical history. their horses and let themdrink all tlu water they wanted to when onthe road! As a youtig man In- was lond ol ricli dress,ambit Kuis, pcrha|)s dissii)ated. The ambi-tion iicNcr utterly died out though its natureand end changed with his growth. That hewas dissipated is a possible deduction fromsome of those many frank statements whichha\c to be takiU with a grain of salt. Iha\(. fornurly loM-d cards and dice, butha\i- long since left them oil, (»nl\ for thisreason, thai tlionj^h I i;nr\ m\ losses as MoNiai{;n1, and Mluicine 103 liandsoiiuly as anollur, I was not willsatisfied and quiet wilhin. In ihr sanioway it may be fontluckcl thai he oNcrtaxcdand abused his healtli in Noutli. Probablyin the reaetion IVoin the emotions arousedby La Boeties ckath Motitai<:;ne was apassionate \()tary of friendship, and lifegave him one and only one friend thatsatisfied c\ery eia\ in;^ and dextlopid e\ itvfaeulty—he delijjerately s()u<::ht dislraetionin the frivolities of his time ihoutili sueh. Ihc liousc at Sarlat where Eticnnc de La Boetie was born. U-rom ■■ Through the French Prminces by Ernest C. Peixoltu, New York, 1909.) |)ursuits were essentially foreign to hisnature. I have nc\cr put myself to great pains toeurb the desires by the whieh I have foundmyself beset. My \irtue is a virtue, or ratheran innocence, whieh is purely random andaccidental. By luclvy chance I come of a racefamous for its honour, and of an excellentfather. I know not whether some part of histastes have passed into me; or whether homeexample, and the good teaching I had inchildhood, have helped me without my beingaware; or else whether I was born thus, but,anyhow, I hold most vices in abhorrence.(Of Cruelty.) MAKKI \(;e Two Ncars alur 1 .a Boeties death Mon-taigne married bran(;oise de La Chassaigne,a woman of good, middle class family andrespectable fortune. Fran^oise made hima good wife, the union fully meeting thehusbands rec|uirements. Wc have no wayof knowing h
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