Those who have enjoyed Lady Paget's former volumes of reminiscences
will enjoy also these more intimate recollections which she has just published as The Linings of Life (by Wal- purga, Lady Paget, Hurst and Blackett, 2 volumes, 21s. each). The book is rather long, but it covers many years and many changes of fashion, describing " /a grande vie" in many countries on its domestic side. Born in Saxony, she was brought up among. German nobles, who seem to have been very simple and homely, despite their pride. As the wife of Sir Augustus Paget, who was our Ambassador both at Rome _ and at Vienna, she came across all the conspicuous people in most of the capitals of Europe, and heard all that was to be heard about them. Whether Lady Paget introduces us to men of genius in studio or study, or. to Italian and Austrian peasants, in heavenly landscapes, or to Prussian grandees in very earthly drawing-rooms, or to Queen Victoria and her sons and daughters, we are never bored.
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