THE COMTESSE IRMA.
"M. Charles d'Athis, literary man, has the honour to inform you of the birth of his son Robert.
"The child is doing well."
Some dozen years ago, all literary and artistic Paris received this little note on the glossiest of paper, embossed with the arms of the Counts of d'Athis-Mons, of whom the last Charles d'Athis had—while still young—succeeded in making for himself a genuine reputation as a poet.
