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peared m the ballet of 1. Anncau Magique,” 13832 - - *made by Princess Victoria.” It 1s of white satin - covered with white Spanish net, and has on cach side of the skirt tiny panels made of - white satin piping, tied at cach cend with mfinitesimally small bows of white ribbon, and ornamented about half way up with tiny bunches of pink roses. The beautiful precision and symmetry of the bows and pancls; the dehicate finish of every part of the dress ; the care with which the silver coronal and wreath ol pink roses have been disposed on the head, constitute a picee of work which s, inoats way, 1if one may usce so g aoword, a hitde * masterpiece” that would satisfy and gladden the heart of Mr. Ruskm.

TThe wreaths and nibbons are, 1 think, quite unmque, and T should feel disposed to the beliof that they e - were manufactured for this especenal

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‘I'he ribbon, extensively used for the Sultan: My lord, a troop of those the trimmings, is the prettest thing ol its dancing and singing girls, called Bayaderes, kind. Tt s approaches,” and to the dash of cymbals and RS o VETY Narrow, the thumping of my heart, m she used to well under a dance. There has never been anything like it never. There never will be.” Well, 1T say, when these words come into one’s mind at the sight of the word Duvernay, it 1s natural to give this voung lady a longer glance. The Queen has dressed her, not as she sprung upon Thackceray's hewitched gaze, but as she appearcd in the ballet of the “Sleeping Beauty,” m o a fairy -like robe of white tarlatan, shining with tiny clittering shapes cut out of orcen, cold, and crimson tinsel. Pearls encirele her fair neck, and there are the remains of some sort ol cotffure upon her head.

A robe with an 1mmense amount of ncedlework it and of the most artistic order (30) 18 worn by Mus. Dudley, formerly Mlle. Leon-

N T.%1 014 7 . N ' e tine as she dap- LADY NEWPORT (111). MRS, DUDLEY (30). PAULINE LEROUX (39)