E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor, Katie Hernandez, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by the Wright American Fiction Project (http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/) Note: Images of the original pages are available through the Wright American Fiction Project. See http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?idno=Wright2-2831<;view=toc;sid=075f68e4235f00ec8548d9f9e813ee33;c=wright2 MATHIEU ROPARS: ET CETERA. by AN EX-EDITOR. New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 661 Broadway. 1868. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by William Young, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. CONTENTS. Page. I.--MATHIEU ROPARS 7 II.--THRICE ONLY 76 III.--TOSSING UP FOR A HUSBAND 97 IV.--MISSING MARINERS 117 V.--MANDRAGORA--BY THE DOZEN 140 VI.--DR. PABLO'S PREDICTION 157 VII.--THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ALPS 163 VIII.--SLIDING SCALE OF THE INCONSOLABLES 173 IX.--RAMBLING RECORDS: The Gentle Arlesians 179 At Nuremburg 183 Roman Nomenclature 189 Brigands, Beggars, and Souvenirs 192 Livres des Voyageurs 197 X.--A SINGULAR ANAGRAM 199 XI.--A WELL KNOWN DOCUMENT 201 XII.--BEL PIEDE 208 XIII.--WHO IS HE? 210 XIV.--TO NINON 212 XV.--THE LAST OF THE ROMAN GLADIATORS 215 XVI.--THE PRUDENT BRIDE 218 XVII.--THE TRAMPER'S BED AND THE KING'S 220 XVIII.--OCCASION 221 XIX.--THE MOURNFUL BALLAD OF THE ALABAMA 222 XX.--LINES FOR THE GUITAR 224 XXI.--THREE MEN AND A WOMAN 225 XXII.--ANOTHER MARBLE FAUN 227 XXIII.--CHARADES 232 These literary chips from the workshop of an arduous profession were, with few exceptions, contributed to the "_Albion_" newspaper, between the years 1848 and 1866. New York, May 25, 1868. MATHIEU ROPARS. _From the French of Emile Souvestre._ I.