These poor girls are also seen to commit suicide from despair. One of them threw herself out of her window on hearing of the marriage of a law student who had just deserted her. Another was seized with asphyxia in the room of the medical student who was leaving her. Have we not reason to shudder, then, in reflecting that these assassins, seated one day on the bench, will be the interpreters of the fundamental law which regulates the relations of the sexes? In directing special attention to such monsters, let us consider youth away from home, entering life with the most generous aspirations—with the healthiest impulses with respect to individual rights and social obligations. Well, these students, not being more than about 25 to 30 years old—not having the social position which will admit of their marrying—meet with numerous obstacles in the path of honour. In their minority for lawful wedlock or for reparation, they are in their majority for error and crime. Their conscience speaks in vain; society, fashion, speak louder still, and stifle this voice. Minority, the issue at the termination of their student career, the demands of their future profession, are insuperable obstacles. Custom and prejudice superadding their barriers, give the names of heedlessness, and senseless marriage, to the fulfilment of a duty from the non-fulfilment of which an honest man would recoil. In proportion as the student lives in this deadly atmosphere, the depravity of his heart vitiating his judgment, impels him, without remorse, to sacrifice mothers and children as a holocaust to profligacy. The lower-class girl is no longer anything but the sport of his passions. It is all over with him. He proceeds from seduction to prostitution; provides himself with victims without name, by the intervention of the agents of human merchandise, the hucksters of shame; and France has lost a man. This is the history of numbers of young men fixed in our towns for years, between their duty, the abstract idea of good, and the social current of example, and the allurement of the senses. They had promised marriage to a woman they had seduced; their promise was a sincere one; they even attempted to get rid of the material obstacles which were opposing either their lawful union or the legitimation of their children. But as their promise did not receive the sanction of the law, they made themselves familiar with perjury. Time, absence, satiety made them forget their former engagements. They then, no longer as novices, but with deliberate design, made false oaths to other women, and constancy foresworn in regard to one will be so in reference to a thousand.