"What you say of the Marseillaise is entirely just. But remember, Madame, that it is the people itself, which always selects its songs, words, and melodies, uninfluenced by any one in the world. Once made, this choice endures, with authority even among the later generations, whose experience would not have made it. "I have often enough thought about a new song of the kind, but I am too old now, and the circumstances of the time have robbed my voice of power. You, Madame, saw the true thought of the song which should be now sung, and I lament that you find the poetical harness not flexible enough for it. "As to your remarks upon my new songs, I must say that I trouble myself as little about the destiny of my younger daughters as about that of their elder sisters. And I am surprised that you speak to me of a Lierman, who should have known me. Excuse, Madame, my delay in acknowledging and thanking you for your letter, and believe me your devoted, BERANGER." * * * * * A recent Italian translation of the _Diplomats and Diplomacy of Italy_, which first appeared in Professor Von Raumer's _Pocket Book_ for 1841, contains three hitherto unprinted MSS. from the Venetian archives. They are curious and interesting, as indicating the strict surveillance which the republic maintained, by means of its ambassadors, over the whole world of the period. * * * * * MR. WILLIS'S _Hurry-Graphs_ have a French rival in the _Pensées d'un Emballeur_, by M. Commerson, chief editor of the _Tintamarre_ (Paris journal.) They are called fantastic, original and forcible. * * * * *