A novel picture of Paris has lately appeared with the taking title
of the _Hundred and One._ Its origin, as well as its subject, is
interesting. It is a voluntary association of almost all the literary
talent of France, for the benefit of an enterprising bookseller,
whose affairs have, it seems, fallen into the sere, since the
commercial embarrassments following on the Revolution. A hundred
and one authors of all ranks and political opinions, philosophers,
academicians, journalists, deputies, poets, artists, have combined
in this work to pass in review before us the humours, follies and
opinions of the French capital, painted in colours gay or grave,
sketchy or elaborate, according to the manner or mood of the artist. A
very amusing work, suitable to all tastes, is the result, and, by
aid of the _Foreign Quarterly Review_, we are enabled to present
the reader with a specimen sketch by Leon Guzlan, an author of some
celebrity in this species of writing.[1]
[Footnote 1: Several specimens have been ably translated in the
Athenaeum.]