LACE AND LAGE-MAKIXG. 



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claims the invention of lace, and, notwithstanding its glorious past, 

 the lace-trade of Belgium is now as flourishing as at any former pe- 



riod. Brussels lace is widely known as point cV Angleterre, for the 

 reason, it is said, that in the seventeenth century the English, after 

 vainly attempting to establish its manufacture at home, bought up 



