that low dresses and short sleeves are tout ce qu'il y a de plus distingué; in fact, they are universally adopted by our dames de bon-ton: long grey kid gloves for walking costume, and long black silk mittens for the house, are worn with the short sleeves.

The hats are still large, très-évasés, and rather long at the sides. Paille de riz, as usual, predominates; these hats are ornamented with birds of paradise, marabouts, or flowers. Of course, you understand when I tell you that feathers and birds of paradise are worn, that they are exclusively carriage costume. We certainly do walk a little in them; but where?-only in the Bois de Boulogne, where our carriage follows. Nothing in the world can look so vulgar as to see a female walking in the streets of Parisa shopkeeper's wife going to market, for example, with a soiled white plume waving in her head! It is the very acmé of vulgar finery; but some ladies are of opinion, that "fine feathers make fine birds."

Capotes of spotted tulle, plain or with coloured linings, are fashionable; I have also seen some pretty ones of crêpe lisse. Flowers are very much worn, a branch placed quite at the side in a drooping position; the ribbon bows in the bonnets are likewise placed a good deal at the

side.

Brodequins (half-boots) and gaiters, are much in vogue this season.

Hair. The front hair in ringlets àl'anglaise, or else in smooth bands, brought rather low at the sides of the face, the back twisted in a rouleau. I mentioned this new style of coiffure, introduced by our amiable Duchesse d'Orléans, in my last; there are combs expressly made for arranging it, as I described in my last. Flowers and marabouts are worn in the hair en grande toilette, they are placed at the side in a drooping position.

I must now describe a nouveauté, and a very pretty one: it is a kind of ceinture and scarf, called an épaulière. It consists of a piece of thin silk, Marcellina or Florence is better than pous de soie or gros de Naples; the latter, particularly, is far too stiff. It is cut the cross way, is very long of course, and about half a yard or rather more in breadth. It is fastened at the waist at back, is brought

over the shoulders where it is retained with small bows, crosses in front, the plaits being drawn into regular folds forming a kind of drapery, and is then brought beneath the ceinture, the ends descend as low as the knee. It may be ornamented by running a narrow blonde all along the outer edge, or cutting it en dents-de-loup. Made of pink, blue, red, or green silk, it is excessively pretty, with a white dress for dinner costume, or evening toilette de château, especially for young ladies.

Colours. Although black, white, and grey, are the colours de rigueur at this moment, I would recommend you to adopt the following as soon as the mourning is ended.

For hats-White, pink, and paille; for dresses, pearl grey, écrue, and green. VERSAILLES.-I shall now proceed to give you, in a few words, the slightest idea imaginable of the palace of Versailles. To give any description, however imperfect, of its wonders-its splendours-its extraordinary magnificence; would take, not a letter-but a volume. It should be seen, not once, but twenty times; it should, in fact, be studied, and carefully; for at first sight one is so dazzled, so bewildered, that it is impossible that the eye or the mind can retain even the most imperfect recollection of such a chef-d'œuvre.

The ground and first floors of the northern wing are appropriated to paintings, representing in chronological order the "Annals of France," from the foundation of the monarchy to the present day-from Clovis, in short, to LouisPhilippe, including the revolution, the empire, and the restoration. Parallel to these galleries are two of sculpture, containing the history of France in marble! In the embrazures of the windows are the tombs of the kings; at one extremity of these galleries is the chapel-at the other the theatre!

The first floor of the centre building contains the siècle of Louis XIV., his courtiers, his warriors, his ladies, his artists, and the great king himself. Here you find the apartments, public and private, of the mighty monarch; the de-Boeuf, the bed-chamber, the cabinet the walls covered with the chefsd'œuvre of Vander-Meulen, of Lebrun, of Coysevox: the ground-floor contains

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