a pleasant story abroad. When Veron purchased the _Constitutionnel_, Thiers was writing his _Histoire du Consulat_, for which the booksellers had agreed to give 500,000 francs. Veron wished to have the credit of publishing the book in the _Constitutionnel_, and with this view waited on Thiers, offering to pay down, _argent comptant_, one-half the money. Thiers, though pleased with the proposition, yet entrenched himself behind his engagement with the booksellers. To one of the leading booksellers Veron trotted off post-haste, and opened the business. "Oh!" said the sensible publisher, "you have mistaken your _coup_ altogether." "How so?" said the doctor. "Don't you see," said the Libraire Editeur, "that the rage is Eugene Sue, and that the _Debats_ and the _Presse_ are at fistycuffs to obtain the next novelty of the author of the _Mysteres de Paris_? Go you and offer as much again for this novel, whatever it may be, as either the one or other of them, and the fortune of the _Constitutionnel_ is made." The doctor took the advice, and purchased the next novelty of Sue at 100,000 francs. This turned out to be the _Juif Errant_, which raised the circulation of the _Constitutionnel_ to 24,000. Veron is a puffy-faced little man, with an overgrown body, and midriff sustained upon an attenuated pair of legs; his visage is buried in an immense shirt collar, stiff and starched as a Norman cap. Dr. Veron believes himself the key-stone of the Elysean arch, and that the weight of the government is on his shoulders. Look at him as he enters the Cafe de Paris to eat his _puree a la Conde_, and his _supreme de volaille_, and his _filet de chevreuil pique aux truffes_, and you would say that he is not only the prime, but the favorite minister of Louis Napoleon, _par la grace de Dieu et Monsieur le Docteur President de la Republique_. "_Apres tout c'est un mauvais drole, que ce pharmacien_," to use the term applied to the doctor by General Changarnier. A short man of the name of Boilay washes the dirty linen of Dr. Veron, and corrects his faults of grammar, of history, &c. Boilay is a small, sharp, stout, little man, self-possessed, self-satisfied, with great readiness and tact. Give him but the heads of a subject and he can make out a very readable and plausible article. Boilay is the real working editor of the _Constitutionnel_, and is supported by a M. Clarigny, a M. Malitourne, and others not more known or more respected. Garnier de Cassagnac, of the _Pouvoir_, a man of very considerable talent, though not of very fixed principle, writes occasionally in the _Constitutionnel_, and more ably than any of the other contributors. M. St. Beuve is the literary critic, and he performs his task with eminent ability. THE NATIONAL.