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Literary Conversation.--Modern Novelists.--Vicomte d'Arlincourt.--His Portrait.--Châteaubriand.--Bernardin de Saint Pierre.--Shakspeare.--Sir Walter Scott.--French familiarity with English Authors.--Miss Mitford.--Miss Landon.--Parisian passion for Novelty.--Extent of general Information. 62