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MLLE. PROCHE (40).

quarter of an inch 1 breadth, and is com- posced of two, and sometimes three, shades of colour, in the softest pinks, yellows, mauves, and Dlues. As for the wreathing, it is an artistic triumph. IZach little pink or yellow rose, which would lie casily on a threepenny nieee, has its neatly adjusted green centre and stalk and accompanying leaves, all of which in their turn are cut and shaped with wonderful skill.

Several of the dolls are dressed in the different characters taken by the celebrated Marie Taglioni and her sisters in the ballets of “la Bavadere,” “la Sylphide,” and “William Tell”f

The Princess must at an carly age have been expert with her knitting necdles, for the ballerina, as a Tyrolean peasant in * William Tell” (rg), wears neat little pink and blue stockings and nicely fitting white shoes. She has a short erimson sille skirt edeed with bands of green and gold braid, a bodiee of crimson and gold brocade with short sleceves ol white mushin, and the most coquettish of mushin and lace aprons. "There 1s another doll vepresenting Taglioni in * Ta Svlphide ” (10), dressed by Baroness Tehzen inoa very much abbreviated muslin dress. which s, however, of less conscquence when we per- ceive she has charming little gossamer wings pamted i white and gold. A silver wreath is pimned on her hair (see page 233). She again appears dressed by the Baroness as a peasanty

NOTES BY CTHIE, QUIEN.,

• She had none. T In an incidental dance,

T No. Baroness Lehzen did the minute work.

§ Dancing girl.

TAGLIONT (14)

ARABELLA SEDLEY (132).

m “ La Bayadere” (7), and is a romantic and picturesque figure in her scarlet stomacher, wee scarlet tippet and big blue velvet capote with bunches of pink roscs.

‘The number and varicty of the Liliputian mummers sct one wondering whether the

TAGLIONT (7).

DUCHESS OF okrLEaNs (12g).

Princess had a miniature theatre, and, if so, whether she arranged her puppets simply as lay figures in tableaux, or whether they acted their parts with make-believe speech and gesture. What a fascinating picture it is of the little painted cardboard theatre, and

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