There is ax much to interest women ga men in" the exhibition, Frocks today are extremely pretty, but the Drocades and taffetas so. beautifully. painted by these old Scotsmen make tone sigh a little. It is Impressive to see how particular a famous bluestocking like Mrs, Montagu wus about every detail of her dress and what a lovely pink brocade she chose when She sat to Raeburn, One wonders what she would say to the dishevelland shapeless damsels who haunt the neighbourhood of London Unie versity now.
The old ladies ore superb but rather terrifying. They remind me of a French lady of the old regime in whose presence, not knowing much French, 1 used the word embétant: 1 SUM shiver in memory of the tone in Which she corrected me to ennuyeu: Some of the children are adorable: Raeburn wax not an inch behind Reynolds with these. Sculpture the Scots did not much care for, they preferred colour. Bul there are eases full of the loveliest miniatures painted on ivory that T ever saw, a dainty art indeed which might well bbe practised more than it is today.
In the State of Alebam elected prisoners. They Hob Hodges, shosen above, He is serving @ senienee seen the aris of now extinct German princes. One warrant has dis appeared and it will probably be some years before it is issued again "that of the Prince of Wales.
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