"I have grown somewhat since the affair at Salerno," said the artist, laughing, and clapping his stout sides. "Ah! I forgot; you had good reason for being displeased with me. {24} The fifteen ducats--and that heavy trunk of mine--that gave you trouble for nothing! It ought to have been ransomed long ago; but I waited to do it with my pay as a tragedian. I wanted to prove your prediction untrue! He drew out a paper from his pocket-book, and presented it. "Here is an order for twelve hundred francs." Signor Benevolo stammered a refusal. He could not accept so large a gift. "Take it, friend. It is your just due! Principal and interest you know. My fortune has grown apace with my _embonpoint_." "You are a noble fellow!" cried the ex-manager, grasping his hand. "Now, do me another favor, and tell me your real name. The one you act under is assumed, of course!" "No, it is the same--Lablache." "Lablache! Are you a Frenchman, then?" "My father was a Frenchman: he fled from Marseilles at the time of the revolution. I was born in Naples. Are you satisfied?" "I thought from the beginning," said Benevolo, "you were a nobleman in disguise. I know you, now, for a monarch in art." Lablache thanked him cordially. "Now you must come home and sup with me, in the Rue Richelieu," he said. "I have invited a few friends to meet you, and they will be waiting for us." ------ Translated from Le Correspondant. Learned Women And Studious Women. By Monseigneur Dupanloup. [The following treatise by Monseigneur Dupanloup is given entire, notwithstanding that some portions of it bear a more direct application to French civilization than to our own. The attentive reader will see that the fundamental principle on which the argument rests applies to incomplete mental development in every country; and those who take an interest in foreign habits and manners will enjoy the lifelike pictures of French society, so graphic, shrewd, and free from exaggeration.--_Trans_.] Dear Friend: Several months ago, in a volume [Footnote 1] of letters addressed to men of the world concerning studies adapted to their leisure hours, I published a few pages offering suggestions also to Christian women living in the world upon intellectual labor suitable for them. This advice I tried to adapt and proportion especially to the exigencies of their mode of life. [Footnote 1: _Letters to Men of the World concerning Studies suitable for them and Advice to Christian Women_, Paris: Douniol.] I endeavored to show how necessary it is for a woman to acquire habits of serious thought; all the more so because modern education seldom inculcates them; and I maintained that such habits could easily find a place in the life of women of the world. {25} I next indicated grave and noble studies, solid and interesting courses of reading, historical, artistic, even philosophical, but, above all, religious, to which they could devote themselves.