instant, he tore them to pieces, and scattered their mangled bones.

Thus for five days did he alternately rage, or moan, rejecting all food, and regardless of aught save the corpse of his dear companion. Vain indeed, and fruitless, was the dangerous attempt to deprive him of the lifeless body of his dearest little dog: he guarded it but the more tenderly; he watched over it the more fiercely. Alternately did he droop his head sorrowing for his lost friend; or raising himself up, again terrificly roar, and vent the most desperate rage to escape from the bars that imprisoned him. Finally, exhausted, and spent, with fury and grief, and having rejected all nourishment, he was found dead with his little favourite clasped to his bosom!

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CHAPTER III.

LOUVRE-NAPOLEON-TUILERIES-FETE OF ST. LOUIS-WATBR-WORKS OF VERSAILLES-CATHEDRAL OF NOTRE DAME AND CROWN OF THORNS-LA MORGUE-HOPITAL DES INVALIDES-ST. GERMAIN EN LAYE-CATACOMBS.

PARIS. Wednesday and Thursday were devoted to the Louvre. Of a gallery of art so universally known, and containing, even now, such an invaluable collection of the productions of the French, Flemish, German, Dutch, and Italian, schools, it were impossible for me to speak more than generally. Much that it possessed during the reign of Bonaparte has been restored to the respective capitals whence ransacked; but exhaustless treasures of sculpture, and her sister art, still remain.

The coup-d'œil, on entering such a national gallery, is truly enchanting, where the dazzled eye ranges through a long perspective of 1300 feet, enriched with such choice monuments of art! but yet more impressive are the feelings excited by such evidences, and successful fruits, of those "longings after immortality" in mortal man, that produced such divine triumphs of art, and genius.

Could I particularise any, I would that splendid series, painted by Rubens, of allegories illustrative of the lives of Henry Quatre and his consort, Mary of Medicis. They are twenty-one in num

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ber, beginning with the Fates spinning the destinies of the yet unborn queen, with her various achievements, all allegorically treated; and ending with Time unveiling Truth. For dignity of composition, splendour of colouring, fertility of fancy, and facility of execution; and considering them also as a series of paintings, accomplished by the same hand, in the short period of three years, they may be really deemed unrivalled. They deserve their name-Rubens's Poem.

Of Vernet's twelve views of the principal seaports of France, too much in praise can hardly be said. But his ad libitum Marine pictures!-Midday Sun-Moonlight-Fog-or the terrible Tempest. It is impossible to gaze on them without being warmed, or frozen!

I think I have read, that such was this Frenchman's enthusiasm for his art, that he would risk his life, by being lashed to the masts of a vessel, during all the horrors of a tempest, in order that he might the better depict the awful scene.

It was through these galleries of treasures that Napoleon led his imperial, and blooming, bride of Austria, in triumph, on her nuptial night. What combination more resplendent than this? Emperor and Warrior, Lover and Bridegroom, Patron of the arts, and Possessor of those treasures of art which had taken centuries to produce, which kingdoms had mutually shared and boasted, and which remain,

though those empires have vanished, and decayed: -he led his royal consort, triumphant, through galleries where his victories had assembled these matchless jewels, and which his liberality had consecrated to the public benefit of France. Attended by his Court, his Officers, and his Marshals, no parade of show, or splendour of costume, was spared to heighten effect; his people crowded around, and gazed on him with the ardour of enthusiasm! Thrones were then tributary to him; and kingdoms were the rewards he bestowed!

24 Inst. Visited the Tuileries, but did not deem the apartments so richly furnished, or so tastefully diversified, as those of St. Cloud, with two exceptions-a massive silver statue of Ceres as large as life; and the king's bed-chamber.

The style of this room is entirely of purple velvet, most sumptuously embroidered with gold: and his Majesty's dressing-cabinet is of the most delicate golden fillagree.

This royal edifice was begun in 1564, and now presents a vast pile of palace grandeur, of which one front extends a thousand feet: but it exhibits a very discordant, and varying, style of architec

ture.

Attached to it are gardens and groves, ever open to the public, and forming one of the most gratifying attractions of Paris.

Many of the statues with which they are adorn

admire the grace, and taste, of this union of architectural, and aquatic beauties, since the fountains, springing up between the pillars, seem themselves to be so many transparent alabaster columns, ever preserving their form, yet ever varying in a glittering, silvery agitation. Other jets d'eau are at the same time playing in various parts of the gardens, some to the height of seventy, or eighty, feet. It is curious to see so many columns of mist, and spray, in their bounding descent; to view them through the surrounding verdant foliage, and opposed to the brilliant sun, forming a thousand glittering colours, prisms, and rainbows.

But it is in another piece that the artist has concentered all his powers. Here were thousands waiting till the half hour of six, from which time till seven, this chef-d'œuvre is in full force. It represents Neptune and Amphitrite, Proteus and the Ocean, minor figures, dolphins, &c. and twentytwo immense vases. All the waters here combined, rising to an incredible height, and with a proportionate impetus, burst forth upon the astonished sight in a moment.

Visited the cathedral of Nôtre Dame. Its length is 414 feet; width, 144; height, 102, independently of the space occupied by 45 chapels.

Though its ancient Gothic exterior; its curious wooden carvings of scriptural histories; its sanctuary, and altar of marble, and porphyry, with its elegant