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able to amuse themselves while thinking of me. It will be 

 my thanks for the many hours which I have intellectually 

 enjoyed in the course of my almost daily visits to the book- 

 stalls which extend from the Pont-Royal to the Pont Saint- 

 Michel." 



" Mr. Marmier was a good raconteur, and one of his favorite 

 anecdotes was one in which the Marquis Libsi-Carrucci figured 

 as the hero. The two, on one of their walks on the boule- 

 vards, turned into a second-hand bookshop. Libri dipped at 

 once into a box of musty volumes, turned over a few pages, 

 and said to the bookseller, " What is the price of this box ? " 

 " Sixty francs. " " Very well, send them home to me. " He 

 sold them at 30,000 francs, for they were first editions of 

 some sixteenth century Italian chronicles." — Paris Corres- 

 pondence. 



Quebec, October 7th, 1892. 



