Christmas Stories from French and Spanish writers

exotic, which can only be compared to the population of a free port, of a jail, of an insane asylum. Travellers journeying tow

ll as the philosopher with double sight, the charlatan, the reformer, the man who creates melodies, and the man who counterfeits bank-notes,-all spend some period of their life in the great inn. Those who attain notoriety, those who find a purchaser, those who have grown rich at the expense of themselves, become in time the innkeepers, the landlords, the