were, I believe, collected almost entirely by Sic Richard Wallace, not inherited by him like the greater part of the pictures. It is impossible to convey much idea of the beauty of them, but the various orities seem to agree that the collection is almost unrivalled in its comprehensiveness. There isa black and gold suit of armour taken from the Arsenal at Munich by Napoleon T and sail to be that of the Elector Joseph of Jso a suit of Alphonso I, Duke id to have been made for Sir Thomas Sackville, Baron of Buckhurst. Among the objects of historic cal interest are the sword and gauntlet os Prince Henry of Wales, son of James I, the dagger given by the City of Paris to Henry IV on his mar.e with Marie de Medici, and a splendidly embossed shield bearing the monogram of Diane dePoictiers, one of the finest pageant shield sin existence. 'A case devoted to the paraphernalia of smoking contains a set of pipes, ete., which once belonged to Sir Walter Raleigh, interesting as showing how very little the medium of smoking has changed in the past 300 years, the pipes of Queen Elizabeth's day being not at all unlike the common halfpenny clay of to-day.
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