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Stevens & Pardon's, Bell Yard, Temple Bar, to learn the art of printing. Mr. Heraud was then editing the Old Monthly, and the Sunbeam, and in those magazines Mr. Pardon made his first literary efforts. From that time to the present he has been occupied as essayist, versifier, sub-editor, and editor. In 1841-2, he sub-edited and published the Evening Star, and became intimate with most of the then radical leaders and writers. From 1847 to 1850 he edited The People's and Howitfs Journal, and in the summer of the latter year joined the literary staff of John Cassell, as editor of the Working Man's Friend. In 1851 he projected the Illustrated Exhibitor, a weekly description of the Great Exhibition, revived in 1862, and afterwards merged in the Magazine of Art. In 1851 he also projected and carried into effect the Popular Educator, and Mr. Cassell's entire educational scheme. In 1854-5 he was engaged as editor of the Family Friend, and the Home Companion, and assisted in launching Orr's Circle of Sciences. In 1861-2 he wrote for Messrs. Boutledge a Ouide to the Exhibition, the Popular Ouide to London, and the numerous handbooks to chess, draughts, and card games, still published separately and as a volume — "Hoyle Modernised." Since then he has contributed to and edited the Gentleman's Jour- nal. Once a Week, the London Maga^ Kvne, and other serials. For more than twenty years Mr. Pardon has contributed to The Bookseller, and Bow Bells, and he is the author of Worthington's Wish," "Noble by Heritage," and other works of fic- tion : in addition to " The Little Traveller," " Parlour Pastimes," and numerous books for boys. Un- der his pseudonym " Captcun Craw- ley," he has produced " The Billiard Book/' "Games for Gentlemen," and some twenty other volumes descriptive of games, sports, and
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pastimes; and for the last edition of the " Encyclopeedia Britannica," he wrote the articles on Billiards and Bagatelle. Most of his Captain Crawley books have been repro- duced in America. In 1847, he married a relation of Sir W. Page Wood, afterwards Lord Hatherley, and he has three sons, all of whom are engaged in literature and journalism.

PAEIS (CoMTE de), Louis Albert Philippe D'ORLiANS, son of the late Due d'OrUans, and grandson of the late Louis-Philippe, King of the French, born at Paris, Aug. 24, 1838, was only ten years of age when the revolution of Feb., 1848, broke out, and, accompanied by his heroic mother, the late Duchess of Orleans, he witnessed the stormy scene in the French Chambers which followed that event. He was educated at Clare- mont, in this country, by his mother, who died there. May 18, 1858. In the autumn of 1861 the young Comte de Paris and his brother, the Due de Chartres, accompanied bv their uncle, the Prince de Join- ville, proceeded to the United States, and on arriving at Washington were cordially welcomed by the Federal Government, and by Gen. McClellan, who proposed that the young princes should serve on his staff. The two brothers entered the service with the rank of Cap- tains of Volunteers, stipulating that they were to receive no pay, and that they should be free to re- sign their ap}>ointments whenever they might wish to do so. They served on Gen. McClellfui's staff till the conclusion of the campaign in Virginia, and the consequent retreat of the army of the Potomac, in Jime, 1862, when they returned to Europe. The Comte de Paris married his cousin, the Princess Marie -Isabelle-Fran<;oise d' Assise Antonia Louisa Fernanda, eldest daughter of the Due de Montpensier, May 80, 1864, and has three chil- dren, one son. Prince Louis Phi-