Little or nothing of all this would have been known had not Boetti, when figuring as the Prophet Mansour, been weak enough to write his own autobiography piecemeal at dead of night. He kept the manuscript in his jewel casket, but one day his chancellor, one of the three Europeans who were in his confidence, eloped with a lovely Georgian girl _and_ the casket. On reaching Constantinople, this individual sold the papers to the representative of the King of Sardinia, and they were recently discovered by Professor Ottino, of Turin, among the archives of Piedmont.—_Time._ * * * * * Transcriber's Notes Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. All other spelling, punctuation and hyphenation remains unchanged. Italics are represented thus _italic_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, by Various