New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-19

10 them alone, for the moral and mental stimulus,
the enthusiasm that would have resulted from their
sharing the first delivery of them with the whole
body of students Secondly, it obliged them TO pay
much higher price for the cold yictuaS thus grudg-
ingly bestowed than the men pay for their hot and
wholesome meal. However, the leaven of Partisan
common sense and social freedom has begun to work
even in Edinburgh, and l hear that during the dis
cussion of the question in the Council it was urged
that since the University of Paris. the greatest in
the world. has freely admitted women to perfect
equality of privileges with men. II will not do for
Edinburgh to hold out longerw Yes but Paris has
not stngy held out her hand and said TO the women
Take what l have 10 give, but pay me double
price for what Won take" No. Paris has given gen
erousy. in spirit worthy Of her old hospitality to
ideas. Come with me, and will show you how she
does IL.
This narrow. winding, dirty street is the famous
hue de TEcole de Medicine. 1t runs through the
center of the well-knOwn Latin Quarter" or STU
dents Quarter rs il is sometimes called and mar
and incouveuient rs IL is. forms with the Rue St
Dominique the Rue laramie and the Rue Gozlan, the
only direct communication continuous rather
for " direct Is word that only on lriShman would
apply 10 such ScTprutino route between the east
eTn and western ends of this southern half of the
city. All the other streets running east and west
either come butt up against some other street run
nIug In an opposite direction, or. TO employ again
the liberuiau method of expression, run north and
south with variations themselves. Clearly to eX-
oldest part Ot Paris Get themselves, the knots they
tied into. the way i'm which they GdTOitlv trans
form themselves from streets TO alleys, from alleys 10
Cul-dcSacs.' from "cui-de-Sacs' 10 imuasses, and
finally BRING tuc traveller round TO the point he
started trom-a this dcucS description and analysis
The only persons who never get lost IN PARIS are the
profess onal blind men, who by diut of never know
lug where they are going, and 10y never wishing
20 go anywhere in particular. are always
where they wish 20 he: and never having
10 ask the policemen, nor 20 look at
The Stlcet-nameS, nor TO consult the map IN Gag-
mani, are never mSlcl. The OF the world finds
itself both in this part of old Paris and nthc answer,
ug quarter on the other side IN state of perpetual
BaocS-in-the NoodIty. No street leads anywhere IN
particular, ana there must be thousands ol people
WHO never 20 10 the same shop twice except they
come upon il, b. accident. in looking for the one
they went to last. IL is this state of things, doubt
less that has led 20 the abolition OF the system of
credit for small accounts in Paris. or should say
which explains why that system has never been
adopted here. When n man has once lost sight Of
customer, he never can with any reason. expect 10
him again. Dick SwiycCr wOud not have
needed 70 stop mp streets with pairs of gloves If he
bad lived IN the Latin Quarter. lie would only
have needed 20 take the first turn to the right or the
lett and lac never could have found the shop again
o. COURSE all tins has sort OF charm, and am sorry
that Mr.. HguSSmaun and his bran new broom are
about 10 sweep 1t clean away. The new Boulevard
81 Gcnaiu is about 10 take the place Of this serpen
tine communication formed by the streets | have
named above ana when II Is finished ono more ven
erablc. quaint. cNa>Dcratng bit Of dirty, charming
Did Paris will have disappeared from the face
"t the earth. The new Boulevard Is
finished at the eastern end a far as
1Nt hue liIlltltUlIleS, Il lew PAGES west Ol lOt
new Boulevard St. Michel. the only one of the BOule
wards that to my mind, atOnes by the beauty It has
created for the charm 1t has destroyed Al the west
the Boulevard ST German * completed - Tar rs the
Rue BcllcchaSSc. and the work of continuing il is
being pushed as rapidly as possible Probably, by
The end % the new year il Will have reached the Rue
dr Bpuues q WIDE and handsome street that is to
connect the Boulevard Mont Parnasse and the Care
de Quest with the QuayS, and then there viii only
remain the Rue de / EcOle de Medicine between the
two completed ends of the now thOTOughtare. NJ
Haussuauu or his successor will make short work of
this and II is plain iIat the Latin Quarter has not
ycsy long life 10 look forward To. This Is why have
iudugcd myself with this paragraph about H. partly
20 please myself, and partly thinking Of pair of
bright ewes at home that will read with pleasure any
words about the lOng-dTeamed-Ot region that their
owner is to sec and make a part of next year A
chance If. when he gets there he does not find the
whole dIssOving about him like VISION in fairy
tale. He will begin his studies, perhaps surrounded
by what is left OF old Paris but ere heends them all
York.
In the midst of this old quarter though by no
means old What surrounds It, is the world
famous Ecoe dc Medicine. The school itself dates
far back the end Of the fifteenth century but this
buldug was only erected in l7G9. All about II are
bjt~ Of architecture dating from the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries, here window, there door here,
again cOricc, or roof or more marked and pictur
,QUu still half dozen angle turrctS one of which, al
the Of the Rue LarTey and the Rue de iEcolede
Medicine is we'll known to artists. has been engraved
once, and painted many times But these bits of real
antiquity. relics of what must have been most beauti
ful when IL existed as a whole are few and far he
tween and the rcmOTseess present Is doing Its best
Zeal. dc Medicine has about the look of half
antiquity in Paris that II, PauPs or the Post-Oice
has IN New-lork bnl II Is not nearly as picturesque
either OF these. The plan Is OF hollow square
with an entrance between columns on the street,
which has its name from the binding Opposite on
the other side of the street. the CinlQue
with statute of Escuapius. Entering the court
ward of the EcOic De Medicine YOU i'm the center
of the side facing NOU. and under pOTtICO with its
pcdiucut hearing the usual dose of French algOry,
:: statue of BiChat 10y David dangers. a Cadavcr Is
am tbe ground behind him and he Il, demonstrating
some proposition to his class. This statue apart the
courtyard is absolutely devoid of ANYTHING inter
,-tiug: the architecture is of that mk-aud-watcT
1aucutss that to have exhausted the faculties
of the architects of the eighteenth century. Turn
iup then to the left, we ind door at the foot OF
what the guide-hOOk calls the "pOrd' staircase
,ls plain. fellow graduate Of Harvard, any IN
StOughtOu IolwOrthyG at Its foot another statue
of Bichat. by David dangers wrongly stated, in
GaliTaui, to be statue OF BTeSCheu. counting the
pu!satOns of a chids heart At hi. feet i scroll
ON which is written the name OF BiCbats celebrated
work, "ReCherChes sur la We ct Ia Mort Lake
everything that came from dAngctss hand. 1t Is OF
singular individuality but there seems 10 have been
more native force than trained skill IN the artist.
The head of the naked boy IN this group foT Instance
seems ont of all proportion large for the body. The
staircase reaches landing halfway up, takes turn
10 the left aud ends in a second landing with two
doOrs-Oue opposite the visitor the other al the left
hand. This latter is the entrance 70 the Library,
which occupies the whole second 1Oor OF the
western side of the courtyard. The door opposite
the stairs is affair for the present Push II open,
YOU find Yourself ia the deseTvcdly famous Musee
Orilan This Museum of Anatomy fills the whole OF
the second floor Of the southern side Of the Court.
Ii is hall of wonders, of fascination, almost OF ter
rors, for here in multtuduOus example man may
learn how he the miracle of creation. has been
fashioned by the Divine hand To-day, every
day. there studruts-real students and play
studcnts-thOse who are so absorbed IN
their work that no sound dlstuTbS them
i'm their self forgetfulnesS and those who every
one that enters who follows with lsess eyes the steps
Of every passe and here one who. worn out perhaps