Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, born at Valenciennes (1827-1875). Studied under Rude, Duret, and Abel de Pujol. In 1854 he took the _prix de Rome_. In 1865 he was commissioned to decorate the Pavilion of Flora in the Louvre; he there executed one of his larger works, called “Imperial France bringing Light to the World, and protecting Agriculture and Science.” In 1869 his group of “Dancers” was placed on the façade of the New Opera at Paris. It will be remembered that in the night of August 27, 1869, the work was disfigured by having a corrosive ink thrown over it. The spots were removed. Footnote L: Count Pietro di Santa Rosa, Statesman. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note The list of illustrations does not have a reference to an image appearing on p. 161. The subject of that illustration is unclear. There is scant resemblance between this image and that on p. 154, whihc is clearly (from the text), Felice Orsini. The French passages in the Appendix liberally employ three asterisks to indicate an elided name, e.g., 'Madame L——’. These have been replaced by a long dash. A footnote on p. 255 had no anchor in the text. An anchor has been added at what seems an appropriate place. On p. 252, the passage beginning ‘“You say that we are behindhand’ uses the continuating quotation in mid-line, following an ellipsis. This would seem to be a printer’s error. A new paragraph is assumed. A spelling discrepancy between the text and the Index for Count `Mammiani´ (index) and `Mammiana´ (text) was resolved as a reference to Count Mammiani of Persano. There were a number of instances of inconsistent or apparently incorrect diacritical marks in the French passages. Most were corrected to adhere to other instances of the preferred spelling, except where accents were entirely absent, in which as the text remains as printed. Other minor irregularities of punctuation in the Index were corrected with no further remark. The Index also includes one obvious error, the final reference to Lord Brougham, in Vol I, p. 399. The first volume ends with p. 389. The page number was changed to p. 329, where a final letter from Lord Brougham appears. The following errors were deemed most likely to be the printer’s and have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. The ‘c’ refers to the Contents, which were not paginated. c.16 Poerio and Sett[i/e]mbrini Replaced. 52.5 telegraphed to the Emperor at Compi[é/è]gne Replaced. 60.2 those who could not be s[ie/ei]zed Transposed. 60.14 by Counts Mammian[a/i] and Balbo Replaced. 95.33 [“]I am firmly of opinion Added. 109.31 who had com[e] to Added. 115.n3 the strongest indig[n]ation Inserted.