MONEY.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3603, 14 July 1880, Page 2

MONEY.

It is the question of money which is the malady of the present, as in the time of Panurge for the majority there is no corn in Egypt, while Harpagon watches his money bags, as an eonuch guards the Seraglios.and Pandolpheshakeshispistoleß las a mule does its bells. In the good old times, to be pinohed did not produce melancholy as no*: then expedients to raise the wind partook of comedy, at present they belong to tragedy; one^ suffers to-day from a malady that formerly' 1 was so easy to cure. The most senga-v tional norels'of Balzac are those where a bank note interposes between a young man and his dreams of lore, happiness, and ambition, like the legendary spider's web that separated . the lorer from his affianced, and that the strongest blows of a sword could never break through. They are not letters of love that rule the camp and the grove at present, but letters of change, and stethoscopio examination of pockets, not chests, would be the surest means for plucking from the heart a rooted sorrow, or effecting a reliable diagnosis.—Our Paris Letter.