t titan sail of purple on arry sky, and Apollo driving a c dra-reined steeds? o see table-napkins ies and viands t could be ed for a feast; tuary clots tastic robes t excited tion of tus and ;lions, pants, rocks, ers--all, in fact, t a painter can copy from naturequot;; and t t C;Madame, je suis tout joyeux,quot; t of t in gold te, of square s  t Red ;teen y-one parrots, made in broidery, and blazoned y-one butterflies, ; Cat pos and suns. Its curtains  stood in a room  black velvet upon clotides fifteen feet ment. tate bed of Sobieski, King of Poland, urquoises s supports , beautifully c  aken from turkisandard of Moood beneatremulous gilt of its canopy.

    And so, for a o accumulate t exquisite specimens t extile and embroidered ting ty Del es and stitc beetles  from transparency are kno as quot;; and quot;running er,quot; and quot;evening de;; strange figured clote yelloins or fair blue silks and iff Spaniss; Georgian s gilt coins, and Japanese Foukousas, oned golds and their marvellously plumaged birds.

    ical vestments, as indeed ed s t lined t gallery of ored aiful specimens of  of t,  sed body t is  sed pain. ing pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond o panels representing scenes from tion of talian eentury. Anot, embroidered -semmed ails of als. tarred s and martyrs, among ian. ations of t, and embroidered ics of in and pink silk damask, decorated ulips and dolpar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corpora