ABSTRACT
Monsieur Capricorne, 95 a native of Montpellier, had confined his whole life to the study of astrology, an art for which all the world, in public, pique themselves on shewing their contempt, although in private there are few entirely exempt from the weakness of believing in it. This profession, however, being little calculated to lead to wealth, the great foreteller of other people’s fortune possessed but a very trifling one himself. /
