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JASMIN'S TOURS OF PHILANTHROPY.
The poet had no sooner returned from his visit to Paris than he was besieged with appeals to proceed to the relief of the poor in the South of France.

Indeed, for more than thirty years he devoted a considerable part of his time to works of charity and benevolence.

He visited successively cities and towns so far remote from each other, as Bayonne and Marseilles, Bagneres and Lyons.

He placed his talents at the service of the public from motives of sheer benevolence, for the large collections which were made at his recitations were not of the slightest personal advantage to himself.
The first place he visited on this occasion was Carcassonne, south-east of Toulouse,--a town of considerable importance, and containing a large number of poor people.