text:  Thus too the late _Brillat-Savarin_ from a sprightly acute brilliant Belles-letteriste turned for an hour honest antiquary lets us know how upon the southern bank of the Rhone flowing out from Switzerland in the narrowly-bounded and when he first quitted it yet hidden valley of his birth:--The FAIRIES--elderly not beautiful but benevolent unmarried ladies--kept while time was open school in THE GROTTO which was their habitation for the young girls of the vicinity whom they taught--SEWING