When his papers were returned to him by the police, Lebiez wrote on the margin of this: “Poor verses! but, bad as they are, they are a faithful picture of the state of my mind in moments of solitude. In the world I am amiable and gay. I am taken for a wild fellow, who mocks at everything; but if they knew my character thoroughly, if they were aware that when I laugh and joke I have just come out of a solitude of despair and tears! If they knew that there are sobs at the bottom of my heart when smiles cover my lips, they would not say that I mock at everything. My gaiety is only a mask which hides the anguish which has for so long torn my heart.” There are one or two examples of newspapers written and conducted by prisoners. The Abbé Crozes, in his _Souvenirs de la Petite et de la Grande Roquette_, gives us specimens and a facsimile page of one of these, the _Tam-Tam_, which, however, only lasted a very short time. Here are a couple of fragments from this remarkable journal:-- FABLE EXPRESS. “Un grand tambour-major, pressé par la famine, Dinait d’une maigre sardine Et s’en régalait sur ma foi! _Morale._--On a souvent besoin d’un plus petit que soi.” ECHOS ET BRUITS. “Nons apprenons avec plaisir à nos lecteurs le projet formé par la Société Agricole de France, de se servir des oreilles de Transparent, pour se livrer à des essais sur la culture des champignons. L’abondance et la qualité du fumier que contiennent ces vastes esgourdes, leur grandeur, leur système d’aération promettent aux amateurs de cèpes les résultats les plus satisfaisants.” Very different from the _Tam-Tam_ is the _Summary_, a newspaper published at the Elmira Reformatory, New York. This newspaper, largely written by prisoners and, at one time at all events, edited by a prisoner, contains, besides original contributions and the news of the Reformatory, a summary of general news; and by its tone and its method of selection, it compares favourably, as it has been said, with many newspapers published outside prison-walls. The following contribution to the _Summary_ is from “a bright young burglar,” about eighteen years old, and is entitled “God and the Robin”; it has an allegorical and personal significance:--