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THE BOHEMIANS OF THE LATIN QUARTER.

is not a romance and has no other pretension than that set forth on its title-page, for the “Bohemians of the Latin Quarter” is only a series of social studies, the heroes of which belong to a class badly-judged till now, whose greatest crime is lack of order, and who can even plead in excuse that this very lack of order is a necessity of the life they lead.