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nut,°uma belonging to the duke of Modena, drawn up in 1598, contains two entries of an organo Tedesco.10 In England these organs P . 371• 1° Tedesco was applied by Italians to both German and Dutch . Count Valdrighi, Musurgiana I . Serandola, Pianoforte, Salterio (Modena, 1879), pp . 27 and 28; and E. van der Straeten, op. cit. vol . Nis p . 122 . individualism were supplemented by L'Ennemi des lois (1892), and an admirable volume of impressions of travel, Du sang, de la volupte et de la mort (1893) . His early books are written in an elaborate style and are often very obscure . Banes carried his theory of individualism into politics as an ardent partisan of General Boulanger . He directed a Boulangist paper at Nancy, and was elected deputy in 1889, retaining his seat in the legislature until 1893 . His play, Une Journee parlementaire, was produced at the Comedie Francaise in 1894 .

In 1897 he began his trilogy, Le

Roman de l'energie nationale, with the publication of Les Deracines . The series is a plea for local patriotism, and for the preservation of the distinctive qualities of the old French provinces . The first narrates the adventures of seven young Lorrainers, who set out to conquer fortune in Paris . Six of them survive in the second novel of the trilogy, L'A ppel an soldat (1900), which gives the history of Boulangism; the sequel, Leurs figures (1902), deals with the Panama scandals . Later works are: Scenes et doctrines du nationalisme (1902); Les Amities franQaises (1903), in which he urges the inculcation of patriotism by the early study of national history; Ce que j'ai vu es Rennes (1904); Au service de l'Allemagne (19o5), the experiences of an Alsatian conscript in a German regiment; Le Voyage de Spade (1906) . M . Banes was admitted to the French Academy in 1906 . See also R . Doumic, Les Jeunes (1896) ; J . Lionnet, L'Evolution des idees (1903) ; Anatole France, La Vie liledraire (4th series, 1892) .