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beside her stands a lion, and she is supported by the 

 fasces of Justice, which form the bowl of the pipe. 

 Italia is in the costume of a Roman warrior, her right 

 hand directs the sword to the neck of the Austrian 

 Eagle, expiring beneath her feet. The papal arms are 

 upon the shield, and the fasces again form the bowl, 



Cavaignac, Changarnier, and Louis Napoleon have 

 in turn had the honour to exhibit their busts " in 

 little," as pipe-heads. One by Gambier, of Paris, com- 

 memorates the establishment of Louis Napoleon's 

 Empire ; a figure of France, robed in an imperial 

 mantle sprinkled with bees, rests her right hand on 

 a shield inscribed L'Empire cest la Paix, the famous 

 enunciation of the new ruler; a sheaf of cereals 

 spring up to support her, and cornucopias pour fruits 

 in abundance at her feet. 



Others have been constructed for such as care less 

 for politicians : thus the artists have been supplied 

 with a head of Rubens; the literati, with that of Victor 

 Hugo ; and such as admire the " pastoral simplicity " 

 of the Regence may have Corydons and Sylvias in all 

 the glories of straw hats and powdered hair, worthy to 

 have come forth from the atelier of Watteau. A Vieux 

 Militaire, with a fiercely cocked hat, ferocious mous- 

 tache, and love-locks arranged in plats on each side 

 his face (Fig. 1), may gratify the soldier ; while the 

 satirist may be charmed with a grotesque German Pro- 

 fessor in his flat university cap, with a profusion of 

 hair, a lengthiness of beard, and a shortness of vision 

 (Fig 2) ; or the medical student may outrage a natural 



