We may, perhaps, add a word with regard to our notes at the end of the book. We make no claim that they are exhaustive: we intended only to select some few points for explanation or illustration, with the English reader in view. Here and there in this book are sentences and allusions which we can no more explain than could Stendhal himself, when in 1822 he was correcting the proof-sheets: as he did, we have left them, preferring to believe with him that "the fault lay with the self who was reading, not with the self who had written." But, these few enigmas aside--and they are very few--to make an exhaustive collection of notes on this book would be to write another volume--one of those volumes of "Notes and Appendices," under which scholars bury a Pindar or Catullus. That labour we will gladly leave to others--to be accomplished, we hope, a thousand years hence, when French also is a "dead" language. In conclusion we should like to express our thanks to our friend Mr. W. H. Morant, of the India Office, who has helped us to see the translation through the Press. P. and C. N. S. W. [1] See p. 195, below. [2] See below, Chap. XXXI. [3] See note at end of Chap. I, p. 21, below; also p. XIV and p. 157, n. 3, below. [4] Stendhal confesses that he went so far "as to print several passages which he did not understand himself." (See p. 4, below.) [5] _Maxims of Love_ (Stendhal). (Royal Library, Arthur Humphreys, London, 1906). [6] Lady Holland told Lord Broughton in 1815, that she remembered "when it used to be said on the invitation cards: 'No foreigners dine with us.'" (_Recollections of a Long Life_, Vol. I, p. 327). [7] He does call it, once or twice, a "Physiology of Love," and elsewhere a "_livre d'idéologie_," but apologises for its singular form at the same time. (See Fourth Preface, p. 11, and Chap. III, p. 27, n. 1). [8] See p. 63, n. 1, below. [9] See p. 339, below. [10] See Translators' note 11, p. 343, below. [11] See p. 309, below. [12] The list may be found in _Les plus belles pages de Stendhal_ (Mercure de France, Paris, 1908, pp. 511-14). [13] On p. 7, below, Stendhal refers to some of the "best" books on Love. [14] _Histoire de la Littérature Française_ (800-1900), Paris, 1907. [15] See Translators' note 47, p. 353, below. [16] See Chap. XLI, p. 159, below. [17] See Chap. XLI, p. 160, n. 4, below. [18] "Like the passion of Love that lends Beauties and Graces to the Person it does embrace; and that makes those who are caught with it, with a depraved and corrupt Judgment, consider the thing they love other and more perfect than it is."--Montaigne's _Essays_, Bk. II, Chapter XVII (Cotton's translation.) This is "crystallisation"--Stendhal could not explain it better.