it may be mentioned, are day scholars. At the Rollin College only boarders are admitted. There are quite a number of foreign colleges at Paris, such as the Egyptian, the Japanese, the Armenian and the Polish colleges. The former Irish college, now called _College des Fondations britanniques_, is under the patronage of the French Minister of Education. It is here that young men speaking the English language are specially educated for the priesthood, the whole of the instruction being given in English and the management being in the hands of British and Irish ecclesiastics. About 15,200 scholars attend the private colleges in Paris. Proceeding now to speak of the actual condition of the _lycees_, or lyceums, it may at once be stated that boarders at one of these establishments in Paris pay from $200 to $300 annually, and in the provinces from $150 to $200, according to age. Considering that this one charge covers board, instruction, books, washing, clothes, writing materials, medical attendance and medicine, it will readily be understood that the income from this source is totally inadequate to meet the outlays. The government, besides providing a large number of gratuitous scholarships, makes up the deficit, whatever it may be, and thus really maintains the lyceums. There are in Paris five national lycees, besides the lyceum at Vanves, situated at a little distance to the south of the capital, at what was once the villa of the prince de Conde, on the Vaugirard route. At Vanves the younger pupils have the opportunity afforded them of pursuing their studies in the country, and only entering one of the Paris lycees when they have worked themselves into the fifth class. The most famous as well as the largest of the lyceums of Paris is the Lycee Descartes, formerly called the Lycee Louis-le-Grand. It stands in the Rue St. Jacques, on the spot formerly occupied by the Jesuits' College de Clermont, which was founded in 1563, and confiscated when the Jesuits were expelled from France by the duc de Choiseul in 1764. As is well known, Moliere and Voltaire, two of the bitterest enemies of the Jesuits, were educated at the College de Clermont. At Louis-le-Grand were also educated Crebillon, the author of the _Sopha_; Gresset, the writer of _Vert-vert_; Robespierre, Camille Desmoulins, Cremieux, Eugene Delacroix, Victor Hugo; the eminent surgeon Dupuytren; Jules Janin, Villemain, Littre and Laboulaye. At present 540 of its 1200 pupils are day scholars.