But this is merely an observation not a correction.
[I talked this matter over with Douglas more than once.

He did not know French well; but he could understand it and he was a rarely good translator as his version of a Baudelaire sonnet shows.

In any dispute as to the value of a word or phrase I should prefer his opinion to Oscar's.

But Ross is doubtless right on this point.

F.H.] Appendix Page 587.