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3 4 Perfume 0 2 One bushel and a half of meal 0 8 Water 0 3 Garnishing the vessels 0 3 ------------- Total of feast for 50 people L1 13 2-1/2 ------------- CURIOS. * * * * * THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS. * * * * * VIDOCQ. (Concluded.) We have a vulgar book called _Frauds of London laid open_, and Vidocq's fourth volume will serve for Paris, since he defines the nomenclature--nay the very craft of thieves with great minuteness: thus-- _The Chevaliers Grimpants_. "The Chevaliers Grimpants, called also _voleurs au bonjour_, _donneurs de bonjours_, _bonjouriers_, are those who introduce themselves into a house and carry off in an instant the first movable commodity that falls in their way. The first _bonjouriers_ were I am assured, servants out of place. They were at first few in number, but, soon acquiring pupils, their industry increased so rapidly, that from 1800 to 1812, there was scarcely a day that robberies were not committed in Paris of from a dozen to fifteen baskets of plate. "The _Almanach du commerce, l'Almanach royal_, and that with twenty-five thousand addresses in it, are, for bonjouriers, the most interesting works that can be published. Every morning, before they go out, they consult them; and when they propose visiting any particular house, it is very seldom that they are not acquainted with the names of at least two persons in it; and that they may effect an entrance, they inquire for one when they see the porter, and endeavour to rob the other. "A _bonjourier_ has always a gentlemanly appearance, and his shoes always well made and thin. He gives the preference to kid before any other leather, and takes care to bruise and break the sole that it may not creak or make any noise; sometimes the sole is made of felt; at other times, and especially in winter, the kid slipper, or dogskin shoe, is replaced by list shoes, with which they can walk, go up stairs, or descend a staircase, without any noise. The theft _au bonjour_, is effected without violence, without skeleton keys, without burglariously entering. If a thief sees a key in a door of a room, he first knocks very gently, then a little harder, then very loudly; i
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