To-day the ambitious Nathan, rich in ink and poor in will, has ended by capitulating entirely, and has settled down into a sinecure, like any other commonplace man. After lending his pen to all disorganizing efforts, he now lives in peace under the protecting shade of a ministerial organ. The cross of the Legion of honor, formerly the fruitful text of his satire, adorns his button-hole. “Peace at any price,” ridicule of which was the stock-in-trade of his revolutionary editorship, is now the topic of his laudatory articles. Heredity, attacked by him in Saint-Simonian phrases, he now defends with solid arguments. This illogical conduct has its origin and its explanation in the change of front performed by many men besides Raoul during our recent political evolutions. ADDENDUM The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy. Bidault (known as Gigonnet) The Government Clerks Gobseck The Vendetta Cesar Birotteau The Firm of Nucingen Blondet, Emile Jealousies of a Country Town A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Modeste Mignon Another Study of Woman The Secrets of a Princess The Firm of Nucingen The Peasantry Blondet, Virginie Jealousies of a Country Town The Secrets of a Princess The Peasantry A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Another Study of Woman The Member for Arcis Bruel, Jean Francois du A Bachelor’s Establishment The Government Clerks A Start in Life A Prince of Bohemia The Middle Classes A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Camps, Madame Octave de Madame Firmiani The Government Clerks A Woman of Thirty The Member for Arcis Dudley, Lord The Lily of the Valley The Thirteen A Man of Business Another Study of Woman Dudley, Lady Arabella The Lily of the Valley The Ball at Sceaux The Magic Skin The Secrets of a Princess Letters of Two Brides Espard, Jeanne-Clementine-Athenais de Blamont-Chauvry, Marquise d’ The Commission in Lunacy A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Letters of Two Brides Another Study of Woman The Gondreville Mystery The Secrets of a Princess Beatrix Galathionne, Prince and Princess (both not in each story) The Secrets of a Princess The Middle Classes Father Goriot A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Beatrix Grandlieu, Duchesse Ferdinand de Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Beatrix Grandlieu, Vicomtesse Juste de Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Gobseck