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 tions, were to be seen last season in every corner of the city on the Tiber.

Among our illustrations is included one of the British Embassy in Rome as it appears while in Lord Dufferin's hands. The Throne room is so called from the Royal seat which is placed on a raised platform at the upper end. The arms of Great Britain and Ireland are richly embroidered in gold on the canopy above the throne, and above that again is the musicians' gallery, with a classic balustrade copied from a fine fragment of one discovered on the Palatine Hill. Spiral staircases passing upwards from either side of this daïs, lead up to the gallery, whence one has a view