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 the head of the Duchess of Warwick (71), or the elegant and at the same time sedate affair worn by the Countess of Derwentwater (120), whose dress of white corded silk, festooned with bunches of yellow roses and pale blue ribbon, is made with admirable taste by the Princess? (See frontispiece.)

There is a lady, Harriet Arnold, Duchess of Parma (115), who seems to have been very frequently married; and it is on one of the four happy occasions when she figured in bridal costume that she appears in this gallery, dressed by Princess Victoria—presumably whilst the lady is still in the summer of youth. For she wears the maiden's wedding gown of white satin, with a long white net veil falling from the back of her head, in two ends, to her feet. Only a plain silver band adorns her head at present, but there are signs that flowers —possibly a wreath of orange-blossom—once rested there. (See frontispiece.)

Several tiny dolls, representing the children of various aristocratic personages, are dressed by the Princess with a simplicity that would