The rich remains of other centuries are there so arranged that they can be seen to the best advantage; many of the works in ivory, china, and carved wood are truly splendid or exquisite.

I saw a dagger with jewelled hilt which talked whole poems to my mind.

In the various "Adorations of the Magi," I found constantly one of the wise men black, and with the marked African lineaments.

Before I had half finished, my companion came and wished me at least to visit the lecture-rooms of the Sorbonne, now that the talk, too good for female ears, was over.
But the guardian again interfered to deny me entrance.

"You can go, Madame," said he, "to the College of France; you can go to this and t'other place, but you cannot enter here." "What, sir," said I, "is it your institution alone that remains in a state of barbarism ?" "Que voulez vous, Madame ?" he replied, and, as he spoke, his little dog began to bark at me,--"Que voulez vous, Madame?
c'est la regle,"-- "What would you have, Madam?
IT IS THE RULE,"-- a reply which makes me laugh even now, as I think how the satirical wits of former days might have used it against the bulwarks of learned dulness.
I was more fortunate in hearing Arago, and he justified all my expectations.