killed his; but these are domestic questions, only interesting to nephews, and it by no means follows that Richard III.

would not have been a better defender of Paris than Trochu has proved himself to be.

His political aspirations and his military combinations are in perpetual conflict.

He is ever sacrificing the one to the other, and, consequently, he fails both as a general and as a statesman.
In order to form an opinion with regard to the condition of the poorer classes, I went yesterday into some of the back slums in the neighbourhood of the Boulevard de Clichy.

The distress is terrible.
Women and children, half starved, were seated at their doorsteps, with hardly clothes to cover them decently.