Mdlle.

“Did you leave the balcony, sir,” I asked, “when Mdlle. Varens entered?”

My father may probably remember the description of Mdlle. de R——, who after all only did what most people do, who write or talk about music and art, when in a hoarse and prosaic voice she attempted at dinner to give us some idea of the fine clear Papal choir.

It had been given, with canopy for the blessed sacrament and banners for processions, by the present Marquis D'Ars, the chief of that beloved family, who, after the death of Mdlle.

This is as true a picture in its way as Mdlle.

In Switzerland, too, if we take a glance at the country where Anna Wasser, at the beginning of the 18th century, achieved fame by her paintings—there, too, we are welcomed by a particularly interesting painter's painter, Mdlle.