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Rh hair on one side of his head and gold on the other, which reminds one of the advertising pictures inscribed "No more grey hair," lately made so familiar to the London public; and the introduction of Prince Cheri (the Prince Cherry of the stage) is a vast improvement in the plot, giving a lover to the Princess, and increasing the interest of the story as well as the point of the dialogue. The translators have Englished Belle-Etoile into Fair Star, and Latinized Heureux into Felix. Cheri is spelt with a y instead of an i, and left untranslated to be corrupted into Cherry; while Petit-Soleil is changed into Bright Sun. It would have been more consistent, and scarcely more destructive of their identity, to have renamed them altogether.

felicity of a King and Queen is clouded by their having no family. The Queen, sleeping one day in a garden, dreams that three fairies appear in the air above her head, and, expressing their concern for her, determine that she shall have a son, whom the first two endow with all the graces of form, feature, and intellect. The third, however, merely laughs and mutters some words between her teeth, which are not intelligible to the Queen. She wakes, sees no one, returns to the palace in great agitation, and reveals her dream to the King, expressing her alarm at the intentions of the third fairy. In due time, the promised heir to the throne makes his appearance; but, instead of a beautiful boy, he is a horrible wild boar-pig, called in French, Marcassin. The terrible misfortune is concealed for some time from the Queen; but when they are compelled to tell her the truth, her distress is, of course, overwhelming. She, however, resists the King's proposal to destroy the little monster, and by degrees becomes attached to it. Prince Marcassin, as he is named, grows up, and exhibits considerable capacity and courage; but has much of the ferocity, as well as all the appearance, of a wild-boar. His manners and dress are described with some humour. A lady of quality, reduced in circumstances, applies to the Queen for protection for herself and her three