Please return the slip.

It belongs to our excellent host, and forms part of his collection of literary curiosities." Such was the introduction to my reading.

I translate it from the German newspaper into English as literally as I can.
The Editor's few prefatory words were at the top of the column, bearing the date of September 1828.
"We have received, in strictest confidence, extracts from letters written by a lady to a once-beloved female friend.

The extracts are dated and numbered, and are literally presented in this column--excepting the obviously necessary precaution of suppressing names, places, and days of the month.

Taken in connection with a certain inquiry which is just now occupying the public mind, these fragments may throw some faint glimmer of light on events which are at present involved in darkness." _Number I._ 1809.--"Yes, dearest Julie, I have run the grand risk.