gantés de frais, wîth brand-new gloves on

5. des essais de frisure à la russe, attempts at hoir curling in Russian fashion, which was the style during the latter part of the reign of Napoléon III.

6. Meilhac . . . Dumas fils . ., both French dramatists of wide renown. The former, a writer of satirical comédies and librettos, was born in 1832 and died in 1897. The latter, the son of the novelist, and best known in our country as the author of Camille {La Dame aux Camélias), was born in 1824 and died in 1895