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time, and a carefully prepared picture of the kind of beauty then 

 admired, and tell more about that epoch than many great books, 

 which it would take a great while to read, could do. Here is the doll 

 with which a noble young lady under Charles VI. amused herself 

 at the time the council of Constance was burning John Huss. Here 

 is the model of Yseult with the white hands, giving the prize of the 

 tournament to the valiant Chevalier Jean de Bethencourt, who was 

 not long after to discover the Canary Islands ; here is the model of 

 the proposed costume of the soldiers of Lancaster, the defenders of the 

 red rose at the battle of Wakefield. Here is, on the hurdle, the 

 figure in miniature of a sufferer of the first inquisition of Spain 

 in 1478. Here is the exact costume worn by the Princess Mary, 

 daughter of Charles the Bold, on the day of her marriage with 

 Maximilian, of Austria. I remarked that the hair of the Princess is 

 red, and I imagine this is the local color. You can thus see the 

 interest of this odd museum. Spain has furnished for it almost all her 

 religious orders, and under the hair-shirt or the robe, the type of the 

 monk, his head covering, his complexion, his air. There is a puppet 

 which enabled the nobles to judge how Montesquieu killed the Prince 

 of Conde at the battle of Jarnac, a dancing figure of that time, making 

 undoubtedly a part of some popular spectacle, which represents 

 Charles IX. armed with the contested arquebus which Catherine de 

 Medicis put into his hand on the day of Coligny's death. The image 

 of the dead Marguerite de Yalois, the first wife of Henry IV., on her 

 bed of state. Models of the native inhabitants which were found by 

 the Dutch in the Indies, when they founded Batavia. Puppets, with 

 which noble misses under Casimir V., Kins of Poland, amused them- 



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selves. The model presented to the king for the grand uniform of 

 the order of St. Michel, founded in 1G65. The costume of the Doge 

 Francesco Erizzo in 1631. A figure dressed as did the widow of 

 James III., of England, who died at St. Germain. The state-dress of 

 the Doge's wife, Gremani, or her way to throw the ducal ring into the 

 waves of the Lido. Here are four dolls found at Ecouen in the cells 

 of the pupils there : one represents a young musqueteer. And, 

 finally, the puppet arranged by David, by which he submitted to the 

 Emperor Napoleon the model of the coronation dress. These indica- 

 tions may give some idea of the extreme curiosity of this singular 

 collection. It furnishes a type of almost every part of the world. 

 Savages are represented by figures of great simplicity of execution. 

 There are religious images and pagan idols, Egypt and Hindostan, 

 the Bosphorus and the Mississippi, Canada and China, all are repre- 

 sented. Wood, paste-board, paste, earth, skin, porcelain, wax, are 

 materials of which all these bodies are made ; the remains of all epochs 

 of all countries. The ingenious collector purchased costumes at the 

 Crystal Palace Exhibition, at great expense, of Swiss, Italians, Indians, 

 Laplanders, and even the exact costume of rose-colored satin in which 

 Queen Victoria was crowned. He has spent more than 100,000 

 crowns in forming this museum of the human race, and human 

 coquetry. The latest individuals placed in his glass cases, are beauti- 



