Vaporing

Writing in L'Eclair, Paris journal, le marquis Boni de Castellane, once the erring husband of Anna Gould (now Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Duchesse de Sagan), urged France to sell her colonies in order that she might gain strength as a nation. He held that some of the colonies may be lost anywhere and that it is but common sense to sell them, as Napoleon I sold Louisiana (for 60,000,000 francs*), before their loss was an established fact.

The foppish little Marquis, who last year laid bare with nauseating crudeness the sordid story&$134; of how he won and lost Anna Gould, is non est at Paris and consequently nobody paid much attention to his vaporing.

*This amount ($11,250,000) was paid in cash; in addition, the U. S. assumed the claims of her citizens against France to the extent of 20,000,000 francs ($3,750,000). With interest, the total cost was $27,267,622.

/- How I DISCOVERED AMERICA--Knopf ($5.00).