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Excerpt from Littell's Living Age, Vol. 97: April, May, June, 1868 Virgil, the Etruscan grandee Opened his heart to him; that of urns, when the let ter of ood Dr. Blacklock reached him, just as, ying from baili's and intolerable misery, he was about to embark at Gree nock for the West Indies. Béranger bor rowed some better clothes than his own, and hastened to present himself to the brother of the First Consul. Lucien received him with every kindness, and having to leave for Rome soon afterwards, assi ned to him his allowance as a member of t e Institute. There were three years of the traitement in arrears, which Beranger received at once. The lyrist is a kindly and loyal man. Bé ranger made over the greatest part of this sum to his father; exactly as Burns ad venced two hundred of the five hundred pounds which he got for his second edition to his brother Gilbert. The good effect of bavin Lucien for a patron did not st0p with t 0 income of a thousand francs a year. It indirectly led to Béranger's being em ployed by the painter Landon in prepar ing a list of drawings of the pictures and statues in the galleries of the Louvre, then yearly enriched by the plunder of Eu The post 0001 now help, not only his father, but his sister, and the widow of the good old tailor, as he always him, his grandsire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.