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Rh articles in the composition of dress, which is never observed or violated without either increasing or diminishing the beauty of the person it distinguishes.

"As the general beauty of the dress depends upon the predominant colour being distinguished by some pleasing or interesting expression, so the beauty of dress in any particular situation or cha­racter depends upon this expression being suited to that particular character or situation."

But as the scope and character of the work pre­vents us from following the artist into his minute analysis of colour, we shall conclude this branch of our subject with the lines of Ovid, addressed to the ladies of Rome nearly two thousand years ago:—