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    OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT. 331

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    LX.-OUE FRENCH CORRESPONDENT.

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    o- Paris, Dec. 19, 1861. the artistic Th...

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    The Boke Of Seynt Albons.

    The one extant belong One ing to Lord imperfect Spencer realized is regarded in the as precious the only p sale erfe of ct

    the copy Duke of . Roxeburg , very h ' s library , in , 1812 , the large sum of £ 147-It is entitled " The Boke of Snt Albons" and is about as

    ey , crabbed in orthography and composition as can well be to our modern ears and the sense is as obscure as the characters

    are cabalistic . No eyes wonder ; that our forefathers found reading singularly soporific ; take , for example , the opening of the poem on

    hunting : — " Take My dere good hede s , where in his ye tyme _fai _* e , how be frith Tristem or by wol fell tell , :

    How Xdstenes many now manner to _oxir of Dame bestes of venery shnllen there here were . ye

    The _ITfbwre first maner of hem bestes is a hert of Tenery the , second there is are an , here ;

    The boor is one of tho , the , wolff and no mo . "

    Our French Correspondent. 331

    OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT . 331

    Lx.-Oue French Correspondent.

    LX _.-OUE FRENCH CORRESPONDENT .

    O- Paris, Dec. 19, 1861. The Artistic Th...

    _o- Paris , Dec . 19 , 1861 . the artistic Those Jockey newl world Club y , returned hav at e the for from some corner the day of country s the past Rue been , as Dronot frequenting well and as numbers the the Boulevard salons of the of

    des Italiens . The ladies are here almost as eager as the gentlecluded men , in and crowding where - to doubtless a place from whence of they excellent have hitherto readers been , who exmany your

    , , , included business may be inclined in to the be . Parisian to But form our throng hasty gentl jud collected e gments countrywomen , dail will y declare at the mi Jockey they ght have now Clu be no b ,

    without for one moment incurring the terrible charge of being _" fast" as an exhibition is there being held of the productions of

    united , art and scienceunder the form of inimitable photographs . This exhibition is called , "U Exposition Disderi . " Butcontrary to the

    signification of the word , it is not exclusively appropriated , to the works of that gentleman , who is known in France by the title of

    * " Prince of Photographers . " From the moment the visitor crosses the threshold of the salons havinthe objectionable name , any

    such idea must be laid asideas the g works of thirty or forty artists burst his siht on entering , In the vestibule are _sj >

    eciupon g . hibitor mens of . . the But progress the ante- reached chamber in is this exclusivel branch y of appropriated art by each to tho

    exworks of M . Disderiwhich are classified in the catalogue as "A series triump of portraits h of human of full-life ingenuit , size . " y . Each A . short of these time portraits since , the is in ide its a of way p be ho a -

    tog regarded raphing as chimerical anything so ; perfect and hitherto on so large all attemp a scale ts to would carry have out what "en

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/43/