[1] _Bête_ is not translatable here. The English word _animal_ is hardly nearer than _beast_. _Bête_ is a milder word than _beast_, and when used metaphorically, implies silliness rather than brutality. In some cases our _creature_ would translate it, _Pauvre bête!_ _Poor creature!_ [2] Vide _Werther_, chapter xxviii. [3] The reader will probably have been reminded of the “Sentimental Journey” before reaching this proof of our author’s acquaintance with the writings of Sterne. H. A. [4] A fashionable milliner of the time. [5] This work was not published. [6] The botanical garden of Turin. [7] Richardson’s _Clarissa Harlowe_. [8] Goethe’s _Werther_. [9] _Cleveland_, by the Abbé Prévost. [10] Some freedom of translation is, perhaps, pardonable here. Our author, depending, it would seem, upon his memory, gives Satan wings large enough “to cover a whole army.” It was “the extended wings” of the gates of hell, not of Satan, that Milton describes as wide enough to admit a “bannered host.” _Paradise Lost_, ii. 885. H. A. [11] A popular Turin physician when the _Voyage_ was written. [12] A title known at the Sardinian court. End of Project Gutenberg's A Journey Round My Room, by Xavier de Maistre