INTRODUCTION
armour. The St. George of the coinage is naked, except for a short cape flying from the shoulders, and a helmet. He is not bareheaded, and has no armour—save the piece on his head. I did not quite see how the soldiers were so certain as to the identity of the apparition.
Again Miss Campbell has explained. The soldiers knew that it was St. George by the "tout ensemble." Surely this will never do. The French phrase that I have quoted signifies "general effect," and the general effect of a man almost naked cannot resemble the general effect of a man in complete armour; the general effect of a helmeted man is dissimilar from the general effect of a bareheaded man. Suppose there was a man named Jones whom I daily met at the public baths, whom I only knew in the exiguities of bathing costume. And suppose I said that I had been
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