here, and never left it until his time of absence had expired. On his
arrival in London one of his friends inquired whether this was true,
to which he replied, "Of course it is; for I found everything I wanted
there, both for body and mind."


THE ENGLISH IN PARIS AFTER THE RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS


There is no more ordinary illusion belonging to humanity than that which
enables us to discover, in the fashions of the day, an elegance and
comeliness of dress which a few years after we ourselves regard as odious
caricatures of costume. Thousands of oddly-dressed English flocked
to Paris immediately after the war: I remember that the burden of one
of the popular songs of the day was, "All the world's in Paris;" and
our countrymen and women having so long been excluded from French modes,
had adopted fashions of their own quite as remarkable and eccentric
as those of the Parisians, and much less graceful. British beauties
were dressed in long, strait pelisses of various colours; the body of
the dress was never of the same colour as the skirt; and the bonnet
was of the bee-hive shape, and very small. The characteristic of the
dress of the gentleman was a coat of light blue, or snuff-colour, With
brass buttons, the tail reaching nearly to the heels; a gigantic bunch
of seals dangled from his fob, whilst his pantaloons were short and
tight at the knees; and a spacious waistcoat, with a voluminous muslin
cravat and a frilled shirt, completed the toilette. The dress of the
British military, in its stiff and formal ugliness, was equally cumbrous
and ludicrous.

Lady Oxford - that beautiful and accomplished woman, who lived in her