And the names of the dead are always thrown at the heads of the living--Corneille stoned with Tasso and Guarini (Guarini!), as, later, Racine will be stoned with Corneille, Voltaire with Racine, and as to-day, everyone who shows signs of rising is stoned with Corneille, Racine and Voltaire.

These tactics, as will be seen, are well-worn; but they must be effective as they are still in use.

However, the poor devil of a great man still breathed.

Here we cannot help but admire the way in which Scuderi, the bully of this tragic-comedy, forced to the wall, blackguards and maltreats him, how pitilessly he unmasks his classical artillery, how he shows the author of _Le Cid_ "what the episodes should be, according to Aristotle, who tells us in the tenth and sixteenth chapters of his _Poetics";_ how he crushes Corneille, in the name of the same Aristotle "in the eleventh chapter of his _Art of Poetry_, wherein we find the condemnation of _Le Cid_"; in the name of Plato, "in the tenth book of his _Republic_"; in the name of Marcellinus, "as may be seen in the twenty-seventh book"; in the name of "the tragedies of Niobe and Jephthah"; in the name of the "_Ajax_ of Sophocles"; in the name of "the example of Euripides"; in the name of "Heinsius, chapter six of the _Constitution_ of _Tragedy_; and the younger Scaliger in his poems"; and finally, in the name of the Canonists and Jurisconsults, under the title "Nuptials." The first arguments were addressed to the Academy, the last one was aimed at the Cardinal.

After the pin-pricks the blow with a club.