there seems to be no end, among them Doing the celebrated one presented by the City of Metz to Louis XV. There are $3 French snuff-boxes of gold and enamel, some-of them thickly encrusted with jewels. Besides this may be found ivory and woodwork in various forms, and some wonderful portraits in coloured wax, Majolica and bronze, candelabra and mirror' galore—things of all nations and number-jess periods, something to please all ages and: every variety of taste. Two thick catalogues deal with but a small portion of what therein to sce. One can but be deeply grateful to Lady Wallace for her munificent bequest, and try to take it in. At present it seems to me almost impossible that one single person can ever have owned it all. In any case we may be thankful that it has escaped dispersion.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.