me to transfer to paper the memoranda made on the various sights worthy of special attention. I must, however, refer to a suite of figures engraved in wood, executed in the reign of Louis XIII. It commences with Clovis, the first Christian King of France, and carries on French history for many hundreds of years. In ivory I observed a remarkably interesting carving of the visit to Emmaus. One extraordinary carving in ivory represents the marriage of King Othon II. in 973, in which Christ is introduced. There is a good deal of Greek and Latin lettering, which I believe has caused considerable discussion amongst the learned men of France. Othon was crowned King of the Romans in the year 962; he was vanquished by Lothair, King of France, and died in 983.

Amongst the furniture, some of which is very ancient, and all of it very interesting, there is a magistrates' chair decorated with figures in bas-relief, upon which is engraven the presentation of the Virgin by her parents, St. Joachim and St. Anne. There is "The Adoration of the Magi," and "The Flight into Egypt." A grand bed of the time of Francis I. is remarkable for the profusion of its details and ornamentation. It is surmounted by a baldacchino which consists of figures of Mars and Victory. It is said that the furnishing of this bed was the work of the first Archbishop of Paris. A Florentine cabinet decorated with mosaics much attracted my attention. Precious materials of all kinds. are used in it. Amongst the paintings is one that is very attractive, whatever may be its art value. It is painted upon wood, the whole of which has first been covered with gold. Of the manuscripts one is a parchment with the signature of Catherine de Médicis. Another is an astrological theme propounded by Henry

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III., and bears date 1573. The medallions are very numerous at the Hôtel de Cluny, and some are of great beauty. "The Entry to Jerusalem" will much reward the inspection of any visitor. The pottery dates from several hundred years back, and consists of collections apparently from all parts of the world. Some of it is of enormous size. One oval plate, representing the family of Henry IV., much attracted my attention. The King is seated near the Queen, in the middle of his family, and several personages of the Court. The border is decorated with ornaments in various colours. Those who are fond of seeing ancient armour should be sure to visit the Hôtel de Cluny. Arms offensive and defensive, some of them extraordinarily ancient, are exhibited on every side. Curiously enough there is a very old pistol, or, as we should call it now-a-days, an eight-barrel revolver, -another proof that there is nothing new under the sun. Of the precious stones I can say but little, and of the numerous clocks and watches it will be sufficient to say, that in their early days it would have been absolutely necessary to have employed a page to carry some watches, if such a luxury was considered a necessary outfit for a gentleman. The tapestries of Cluny, I believe, are very famed. Some of them that I saw were of huge dimensions, and upon them were worked love stories in rather an attractive manner.

I must now tell you of the Luxembourg. The Luxembourg Gallery, I think, is pretty well known. It is part of the Palace in which was the House of Lords, when such a thing existed in France. It is set apart for the works of painters and contemporary sculptors, and is a continuation of the French School at the Louvre. It was once the palace of Marie

de Médicis, but since 1750 it has been an Art Treasures Exhibition. In walking round its narrow and poorly lighted galleries, I discovered many treasures. Anywhere but in Paris or Florence, they would be called priceless. "The Exiles of Tiberius," "The Captain's Share" (two captive ladies), "A Review Day, under the Empire," "Pilgrims for Mecca," "The Death of the Virgin," "Holy Wednesday at Palermo," "The Levite of Ephraim," "Dominicans adorning their Chapel," "A Bull Fight in Spain," and, above all, the "Death of Edward V. and Richard Duke of York" struck my attention. So did the "Death of Queen Elizabeth," by Paul Delaroche. The story of the ring given to Essex on his return from Cadiz is well told. The Queen had been deceived. Essex had given the ring to the Countess of Nottingham. Elizabeth is sent for to her ladyship's death bed; refuses her pardon; returns; takes no food, and expires.

My time is gone, and I must conclude my "Trip to Paris."

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX A.

PREFACE TO THE LORD'S PRAYER IN 250

LANGUAGES.

I. The gathering of the Catholic bishops to the great Vatican Council, the occasion of publishing this work.

II. The state and condition of the printing office of the Sacred Council of the Propaganda.

III. Others have published the Lord's Prayer in various languages before.

IV. Wherein this edition excels others.

V. The classifying of languages offers a fitting occasion to investigate the laws of the science of language.

VI. A few things of which the reader is to be admonished.

I. Since it has come to pass by the wonderful leading of Divine Providence that the bishops of the Catholic Church have assembled at the great Vatican Council, and that in this city the head and strong fortress of the Christian name, in these our days if ever, it may be said "Let every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (2 Philip. 11), there is no one who is not affected with sentiments of gladness, or who does not to the utmost of his power desire to show forth his piety and joy. But we should take care that as many proofs as possible of this joy should exist to commend to the memory of posterity the great glory of this age and the great benefits with which are all enriched. Wherefore it appeared altogether fitting that

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this printing office of the sacred council of the Propaganda should put out a memorial which should most clearly make known its rejoicings to all the nations that inhabit the earth. But this it can do in no other way than by exhibiting the fullest specimen of that art which gives us the signs of the speech and writing of different nations, and so set forth after a manner the image and form of that august senate in which the fathers of almost every people are present, telling of the glory of God in their own language. For as we read in the sacred Scriptures that when the Apostles, at the first Pentecost, were come together into one place, there appeared cloven tongues like as of fire which sat upon each, so that they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues-(Acts ii.)—and as the Spirit may be said to abide continually in the Church yet confessedly and in an especial manner it must be among us now, when the Catholic bishops gathered together in Christ's name are present in Rome, "that they may bear with the Roman Pontiff their witness to the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, and with the Pontiff may teach all men the way of God in truth under the guidance of the Holy Spirit." (The Pope's Allocution in the Vatican on opening the Sacred Ecumenical Council.) Wonderful, indeed, at this time is Rome, the abode of that house, the church, where dwelleth Peter, that is Pius IX., who holds the place and dignity of Peter, and the other bishops who sit with the Roman Pontiff as the Apostles did with Peter, whom the Holy Spirit fills with its essence, so that they all proclaim in various tongues the wonderful works of God. Of this most holy Council, therefore, this book containing as many and as various languages as possible of the different nations thus agreeing together with one accord to praise God, may be accounted a foreshadowing. Such, therefore, is the book which is here published, in which are given in 250 languages, in their various characters, all especially peculiar to our printing office, that prayer which our Lord Jesus Christ deigned to teach all men, and which, admonished by the divine precept and divinely instructed, we all may dare to say. Our hope, indeed, is that this memorial, though it should fail to sustain the fame of this illustrious printing press or equal the more recent discoveries of our art, or answer to the science which investigates the various languages of men, their nature and genius, concerning which we shall speak more at large hereafter, will not be wholly in vain.

II.—There are some among us not only of those born out of Italy, and strangers to the Catholic faith, but of our own people, professors of the same religion, who entertain a contempt for everything which there is in Italy, and especially in Christian Rome, the fruitful parent and nurse of every good art, and of learned men, and superciliously