Her father had been a partner in a great jewellery house, Cottier's, of Paris, London, and New York.

I was in the private office of my friend, Edmund Anstruther, of Cottier's, one afternoon, selecting a trinket with his advice, and" "That was my father, monsieur."

" "They did not find their way into Cottier's stock, then?" The Comtesse de Lorgnes gave a gesture of excitement.

" AUGUSTUS E. WILLSON Governor of Kentucky [Footnote 1: The following letters are reprinted by permission from a collection of such commentaries from Cottier's Weekly.]

They exist respectively in the Museo Buonarroti, the Accademia, and the Bargello at Florence, and in the private collection of M. Cottier of Paris.

There were also bothachs = cottiers, and sen-cleithes = old adherents of a flaith, accustomed to serve him and obtain benefits from him.