. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. Engraver /tFTER Cinderella had dressed her two sisters for the ball, she fol-y~l lowed them with her eyes as long as she could, and ivhen she couldsee them no more, she began to cry. Her godmother, seeing her allin tears, asked her what was the ^natter. I wish—I wish— she cried so hard that she could not go on; hergodmother, who was a fairy, said to her, You would be pleased to go tothe ball. Would you not? Alas, yes 1 said Cinderella, sighing. Very•well, he a good girl, said her godmother, and I will help you to go. Shethen took her into
. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. Engraver /tFTER Cinderella had dressed her two sisters for the ball, she fol-y~l lowed them with her eyes as long as she could, and ivhen she couldsee them no more, she began to cry. Her godmother, seeing her allin tears, asked her what was the ^natter. I wish—I wish— she cried so hard that she could not go on; hergodmother, who was a fairy, said to her, You would be pleased to go tothe ball. Would you not? Alas, yes 1 said Cinderella, sighing. Very•well, he a good girl, said her godmother, and I will help you to go. Shethen took her into her room and said to her, Go into the garden and bringme a pumpkin. Cinderella went quickly and gathered the finest she couldfind and brought it to her godmother, not comprehending how this pumpkincould make it possible for her to go to the ball; her godmother hollowed itout, and having left only the skin, struck it with her wand, and the pumpkinwas immediately changed into a beautiful gilded chariot. Perraults Conies. .iA ^^ ij« «n<h ^^?.. CINDERELLA AND THE FAIRY GOD-MOTHER. CINQUECENTO 233 CITY MADAM and Michael Angelo (1474-1564), , with Machiavelli, Luigi Alamanni,Bernardo Baldi, etc., make up what istermed the Cinquecentesti. The wordmeans the worthies of the 500 epoch, andit will be observed that they aU flourishedbetween 1500 and the close of that cen-tury. (See Seicenta). Ouida writes ia winter morniags at a Vene-tian writing-table of cinquecento work thatwould em-apture the souls of the virtuosi whohaunt Christies.—E. Yates, Celebrities, xis. Cipango or Zipango, a marvellousisland described in the Voyages of MarcoPolo, the Venetian traveller. He describedit as lying some 1500 miles from island was an object of diligentsearch with Columbus and other earlynavigators, but belongs to that wonderfulchart which contains the El Dorado of SirWalter Ealeigh, the Utopia of Sir ThomasMore, the Atlantis of Lord Bacon, theLaputa of Dean Swift,
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