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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 18 April 1910, Page 7

Th e "Book Montlhly" tells _ the :tory of a little discovery in I'aris, It lappened before the floods came. A .vaiidering book-buyer decided to giv? : couple of francs for an old volume, vliich lie happened upon in one of the collections along the banks of the Seine. 'He ■turned over its pages in Ihe evening, at home, and found two vliich were jmrposely stuck together, il'e opened them carefully ,-with a knife, anxl inside he found three' bank :iote s of a thousand francs each. Vn»ether with this message: "Frienl. •vhoever .thou art. Thou hast read this hook to the end; ibe legatee, withoul remorse, of this little fortune. 1> is all my .pen has brought m e in fifty years. May the Muses be more favourable to thee, for thou art surely a. man of letters." t hen camp I'-'e initials. "H.Z.," the date. January 10 1848, and the number of a street in Paris.