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 —Some new trash on the same topic. For that matter, Goethe didn't refer to the treatise on Fardemens et Senteurs.

—Sir, the subject of cosmetic surgery now takes rank as a dignified branch of medicine. Trash is not the name for it. Are you aware that Dr. Andry, in his Orthopédique, gives it a long chapter? That Dr. Cid, of Paris, published a suggestive treatise on Calli-*plastique in 1846? That Royer-Collard wrote several essays on Organoplastie Hygienique? That Dr. Hirzel's Toiletten-Chemie has already passed through two editions? That within a year, Dr. H. Klencke, whose titles would occupy a page of our book, has published a volume of nigh six hundred pages on Kosmetik? That Mr. Cooley, of London, has a bulky octavo of eight hundred pages on the same topic? Not to speak of the loads of books on perfumery, and on the anatomy of beauty, from Sir Benjamin Brodie down to Professor Dussauce, and Mr. Piesse? And the essays on obesity which have multiplied so of late, especially that of Dr. Dancel?

—Really, it is not less gratifying than surprising, to learn that men have given themselves so much trouble about improving the looks of us poor women. I am afraid we don't appreciate their disinterested kindness.

(ignoring the thrust.)—The story is only half told. According to Jacob le Bibliophile, there were published