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    breath had called into being all the beauty that lives and glows upon the walls around them . What would be the effect of soft music richly blent , ' rising like a steam of rich distilled perfumes , ' in such a place ! Each room has two or three figures so disposed as to give a coup d ceil on looking from one extremity to the other . This you stand and enjoy , filling your eyes until , indeed ,

    your eyes are filled ; and then you hasten forward to gaze on them , smile with them , speak to them , as they may separately move you . There is a Hyacinthus ^ the favourite of Apollo , and of every one else , who sees him here ; his lovely limbs stretched along in graceful ease , his head erect , watching a game in which it will soon be his turn to mingle . Then further on is the fisher boy playing with the tortoise ; not so classical , but what cares he ,

    he is quite as happy . The attitude is taken from an antique ; the face is a new creation , and what a world of enjoyment ! It is a Murillo in marble : there is the breadth of smile making all who look to smile in sympathy , which he only knew the secret of giving without any approach to a grin . To use a license with an old saying , all his peasant ' s faces have € their hearts in their mouths . '

    In the end room are three windows , one looking to the courtyard , another into the garden , and the centre through to the noble staircase , leading to the Chamber of Peers . The sun-blind was down , so we were obliged to content us with the imagination of what must be that beautiful reality of green branches ; and the peers' staircase was soon relinquished for another look at the life of the room , the young Neapolitan dancing the Tarantella . What are all the peers in the world , walking in all their state to in to

    the coronation of all the kin ^ s the world , that harmv bov the coronation of all the kings in the world , to that happy boy with his face gleaming with expressive sunshine , which the ruddy bronze in which it is cast assists to glorify , his figure of graceful freedom ,, free as the waves that fill that bay on whose shores he is dancing , while the sunset glow and the sunshine smile meet together on his face like joyous friends . What have we to do with kings and peers while gazing on you ? Much ; for there are many who , like you , would be bounding in the free air , with freer

    spirits , did not kings and peers pervert the power intrusted to them . But all is working well . It must take much time to correct much evil ; and , moreover , kings and peers should not be hardly dealt with : they have troublesome lives of it , and fewer chances of happiness than almost any set of beings in creation . We must not forget we have one nature in common with them they have access ( though they too often suffer them to freeze in ' '

    the cold shade ") to all those streams of kind and p-entle feeliner the cold shade ) to all those streams of kind and gentle feeling making glad the human heart , that ' holy pavilion of the taber-(nacle' of mortality , which , when filled with the love that is an emanation from divinity , is indeed the dwelling of the Highest . ' And now , farewell to the gcjlery here : in memory , never ! It

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    62 The Luxembourg .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1834, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2629/page/64/