CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE, one of the most admired critical essayists of France, was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, December 23d, 1804. He began life as a physician, but he had been carefully educated in general literature, and his tastes drew him away from his profession. He began writing critical essays, chiefly book reviews, which soon brought him reputation. He became a contributor to La Revue de Paris, La Revue des Deux Mondes, and other leading periodicals. He published several volumes of poems between 1829 and 1837, and in 1832 “Volupté,” a novel. His “Literary Portraits” and “Portraits of Women” appeared between 1832 and 1844, and his “Causeries du Lundi” from 1851 to 1857. He was elected to the French Academy in 1845, and to the Senate in 1865. He interested himself in education as well as in literature and politics. Besides lecturing in the smaller French cities, he taught in the Collège de France as professor of Latin Poetry, and from 1857 to 1861 was a lecturer in the École Normale. He died at Paris, October 13th, 1869.