Victoria And Eugenic

About a dozen years, L suppose, have passed away sinco J suw tho Empress Kugenieand Queen Victoria sittiug sido by side. Assuredly tbo differenco eveu thün migkt well have been called a contrast, ullhough tho Qucen was in lier liappiost time, and bas worn out terribly iast einc-o t!iat period. But the quality wliich above all others Queen Victoria wanled w:is just tbat in wbieh tho Eaipreai of the Frenoh is Hupreine the tlio quslity of imperial, womunlj graco. I havo nover been a rapturous admirer of the beauty of thu Empresa; a ccrtain uarrowuuas of contour in tbe face, tho ejes too closely snt tcgotlier, acd an nppearance üf artilioiality iu every movement cf tbe features, seem to me to detract vcry ïniich from tbo cbarms of her couutenanco. But her quoenly graco of gesturo, of attitude, of fonn, of motion, must be adii'itted to be atlmitted to bo bcyond cavil, aod superb Sbo looks just ibo woman on uhom auy sort cif garnieut would hang vvitb grace and attructivenef-f? ; a blanket would become lika a regal aautle if it feil round hor eboulders ; I verily bolieve she would actually lock graceful in Jlary Wnlket'd :08'ume, whicb I considcr tbo most dolesiable, in an ar:istic seuse, ever yet iiitrodueed by mortal woman. Poor Queen Victoria looked awkward and boniely indeed by the side of this graceiul, uobl lorna ; this figuro that exprescd so vvull tbe conibiiiution of suppleucss and affluenco, of imperial dignity and charniing womanhood. Time has not of late epared the fnce of the Empress of tho Frenoh. Lines and hullows are growing f-isttbere; the bright eyes are siukiug deeper into thcir places; the complexion is faded aad olouding. But the grace of forin and movcuieijt is ptill there, unimpaired and unsurpas.ed. - Tho whitest and finest eboulders still surruount a noble bust, which, but ihat its amplitude somewhat exoueds the severe proportious of autique Grecian beauty, migbt be reproduced in marblo to illu-trate tbe contour of a Venus or a Juno. I have seldom looked at tho Empress of the French or at any picture or bust of her without tbiuking how Mary Wortley Moutagu wculd have gone into boUl and eloquent raptures over the superb wommihood of that