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TRAYELS IN EUROPE.dancing, hand-in-hand, threading the needle, and singing d'accord andà gorge déployéea gay Limousin air', interrupted only by peals oflaughter, from one end tothe other of its,·· in other respects, lifelessstreets. A pleasing, because simple, lllU&icis. epideinic throughoutthese countries.Itconsists but of a few notes, between plaintive andgay, or rather a mixture of both, in very limited range; a\ld speaking atonce to the heart, conveys itself through the populatioa, ,male andfemale, young and old, faster than an exptesscot!il.d trRivel; at least inthese regions.ln regard to the French soldiery, 110twithstanding the minute and justobservatIons in the Encydopredias, evidently written by military menwho felt for the cruel sit,uationof their brethrenunder arms, ofthe misel'ablestate inte which the armyhad lapsedin regard to t,he primaryarticle of life,-food; matters are gro·.:wiaginthis respectworse andworse. Perhaps, indeed, thestate isu.nable t'O atfordthe