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The _Collection of Sacred Moralists_, which has been for some time in
course of publication in Paris, under the editorial supervision of the
famous editor of French classics, M. Lefevre, has been just completed by
the publication of the two volumes, of which one contains the _Moral
Thoughts_ of Confucius, and the other the work known as _The Sacred Book
of China_.

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M. REGNAULT'S new book, which he would have regarded as a completion of
Louis Blanc's _Histoire de Dix Ans_, is described as a very violent and
not very clever pamphlet.

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LAMARTINE'S sentimental and lachrymose romance of _Raphael_, has passed
into a third edition in Paris.

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The French poet MERY has just published a romance entitled _Confessions
de Marion Delorme_. We cannot imagine any additional interest from
fictitious coloring to a life such as it is believed was really led by
the heroine.

"Marion Delorme was born in 1612 or 1615, but where is not
exactly known, though probably in Champagne or Franche
Comte. Of marvellous beauty and exquisite wit, she became,
after certain amatory adventures, the mistress, and
subsequently by secret marriage the wife, of Cinq Mars, and,
as such, was persecuted by the terrible Cardinal Richelieu.
Even before he was sent to the scaffold, she had formed
other intrigues, and then had a long list of lovers, amongst
whom were de Grammont and Saint Evremont; then she became
the 'glass of fashion and the mould of form, the observed of
all observers,' and the admired of all gallants of the good
city of Paris; then she dabbled in politics, and eventually
became one of the chiefs of the malcontent party; then she
was in danger of arrest, like the Princes de Conti and de
Conde; then to escape a jail she spread a rumor that she was
dead, and actually got up a mock funeral of herself;
afterwards, she escaped to England, married a lord, and in a
short time became a widow with a legacy of L4000; then she
returned to France, and on her way to Paris was attacked by
brigands, robbed of her money, and made to marry the chief
of the band; four years later she was again a widow, and
then she wedded a M. Laborde; after living with him
seventeen years, he died, and she went