Posthumous Works

FROM THE EDITORS.

this virtuous man, filled with the gifts of intelligence.

Here then are these two letters which so well depict the feelings of all those who knew him, or who had the happiness of being able to appreciate his works.

"I owe you everything, Sir, since
I owe you my return to the truth.
Not only does gratitude place you
in my heart among the benevolent
beings whom I love and revere;
but a principle of equity authorized
by taste and delicacy, (ce gout qui n'est pas la vertu, mais qui peut y conduire this taste which is not virtue, but which can lead to it),
places you in my mind far above the
writers in whom our century glories.
These athletes of modern literature
have given me only imperfect and
fleeting pleasures; your works have
prepared for my soul a solid nourishment,
appropriate to my type of mind, to my