"The knight of arts and industry, And his achievements fair." THOMSON'S _Castle of Indolence: Explanatory Verse to Canto II._ In a popular and respectable, but not very fashionable quartier in Paris, and in the tolerably broad and effective locale of the Rue ----, there might be seen, at the time I now treat of, a curious-looking building, that jutted out semicircularly from the neighbouring shops, with plaster pilasters and compo ornaments. The _virtuosi_ of the _quartier_ had discovered that the building was constructed in imitation of an ancient temple in Rome; this erection, then fresh and new, reached only to the _entresol_. The pilasters were painted light green and gilded in the corn…
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