. The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics. ed you ofthe death of the little princess, anevent which is in every sense anunfortunate one for her charming-mother. The Duke de Berri evin-ced a degree of feeling at the timewhich people in general had sup-posed him too volatile to duchesss sufferings were verysevere, but she had all the conso-lation which friendship and uni-versal sympathy could bestow. I have just seen your old friend, Miss D , who has charged me to say a thousand pretty things inher name to you. She deliveredthese florid nothi
. The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics. ed you ofthe death of the little princess, anevent which is in every sense anunfortunate one for her charming-mother. The Duke de Berri evin-ced a degree of feeling at the timewhich people in general had sup-posed him too volatile to duchesss sufferings were verysevere, but she had all the conso-lation which friendship and uni-versal sympathy could bestow. I have just seen your old friend, Miss D , who has charged me to say a thousand pretty things inher name to you. She deliveredthese florid nothings in a manner,winch would have tempted me tobelieve that there was somethingin the air of France that inclinedpeople to be complimentary, didnot my own experience prove thecontrary, for I still retain all thatEnglish bluntness on which you,my Sophia, used so often to rallyyour ever affectionate Eudocia. 1 forgot to mention, that one seesoccasionally a few chapeaux, orcapotes, of red or green crape, orgros de ISnples; but the generalityof head-dresses are like the gowns— B3 183 FASHIONABLE FURNITURE. PLATE 14.—FASHIONABLE CHAIRS. The annexed plate representschairs from the repository of Bullock, and they are designedfor apartments or three dillerentmodes of building : the centre chairis intended for a Grecian library,that to the right of it for a suite ofrooms in the Gothic style, and thaton the left for a book-room in amansion built in the seventeenth century. Although the forms aregood, and well adapted to the pur-pose for which they are designed,yet the materials with which theyare composed, and the excellenceof their workmanship, give an im-portance and value to them, that isnot to be exhibited by a graphicalrepresentation. INTELLIGENCE, LITE iNthe courseof nextmonth will ap-pear a new Catalogue of Mr, Acker-manni Repository of Arts, consist-ing of between 3 and 1000 copper-plate engravings. On the 1st Sept. will be publishedthe fifth and last part of Albe
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