GRAH AM 16F'37. WHICH HAS BEEN THE OCCUPATION OF MANY PLEASANT, WHILE MAKING A SERIOUS STUDY OF ABELARD'S PHILOSOPHY, IS DEDICATED. NOT ONLY AS A TOKEN OF ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS AND ENERGY, BUT ALSO AS A PLEDGE OF PERSONAL FRIENDSHIP AND ESTEEM. VIII.-Philosophy and Sickness.. IX.-Argenteuil.-A fair Pupil of the Nuns... ROMANCE OF ABELARD AND HELOISE. I. GENESIS. REAL romance is in real history. Life, as it is lived, is more wonderful and touching than life as it is shaped by the fancy. History gives us the substance of existence; fiction gives us nothing but its shadow. The highest conception of genius is meagre, when compared with the drama that humanity is enacting in time and space. Most of us have lived a romance more beautiful and pathetic than ever yet has been described by the pen of man. Experience is the light whereby one is able to read all romantic history. We know when the historian writes fiction instead of truth, for within us is a test. Truth to life, we always demand. The romancer must faithfully give us the experience of |