Unfortunately, the menu itself has been lost, and the memory of our clerical informant has retained only a portion of the carte, which we have transcribed from the memoranda he has contributed. Was there a _chapon à la Toulouse_ or _noix de veau à la Soubise_ for the _relevé_; did lamb's _ears à la Tortuë_ or _carbonnades de mouton à la Macédoine_ form the entrée; did a _caneton de Rouen_, a _poularde truffée_, or a _coq-vièrge_ do the honours of the roast; could _des truffes au vin de Champagne_ or a _gelée au marasquin_ have figured as the entremets; and, finally, what might have been the _grosse pièce_? Alas! these questions, like many questions of theology, must remain unanswered. It will be observed, notwithstanding, how the wall furnishings, the roses, the red of the _bisque_, the ripe hues of the melon and the salmon, the erubescence of the strawberries, and the very waistcoat of the _avertisseur_ were happily combined; and also that as far back as 1860 the muskmelon had already been employed as an admirable prologue of the dinner during warm weather. As for the checkerboard _crême glacée_, with four flavours and four colours for each person, it is an addition to the dessert that is almost worthy of a sermon. The following supplementary notes conclude the interesting account of the dinner: "The solid part of the menu I have no record or memory of. All I know is that we ate pretty much everything that was in sight, and then had just enough and no more. The dinner concluded with four toasts and four speeches, the only one I recall being on the theme, 'The Four Homes'--not one of the four speakers having at the time set up a home of his own. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever. We went upon the Latin maxim, _In medio tutissimus ibis_, and so we took the _très joli dîner_, which, with _vins compris_, cost us forty francs or eight dollars apiece. But the recollection of it has been worth at least two dollars a year since then: and as it is forty years ago last summer, and two times forty is eighty, I now count that I then paid only ten per cent. of its value." It is needless to add that the sermons and addresses of the ecclesiast in question, which join to their fervour and scholarship an originality all their own (were they not inspired by the dinner at the "Trois Frères"?), are always listened to with marked attention by his large and appreciative audiences. It also goes without saying that he has distinguished himself in literature, and that his presence is invariably in demand either at a dinner or a debate of theologians.