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cious observations (to which I refer you) on the chief use of mirrors, may reconcile you to their occasional introduction over chimney pieces, which, for the rest, are by no means the best places for pictures.

The chapter ends with a pleasing story about a mirror and a lady, and Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, a story not unworthy to be a pendant for "Collalto,"[1] and which might have furnished a subject for the graceful pencil of Stothard; but it is time to make an end.

I am yours faithfully

C. L. Eastlake.
  1. See Rogers's Italy.

FINIS.

Maistre, il sembleroit que ne fussiez grandement sage de nous escrire ces balivernes!