As to the topics of satire and gay curiosity which occupy the lady known as "Gyp " and M. Halevy in his "Les Petites Cardinal " if you had not exhausted the matter in your "Dialogues of Hetairai " you would be amused to find the same old traits surviving without a touch of change. One reads in Halevy's French of Madame Cardinal and in your Greek of the mother of Philinna and marvels that eighteen hundred years have not in one single trifle altered the mould. Still the old shabby light-loves the old... read more