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The Masterpieces of Versailles. By Gustave Geffroy. (Nilsson and Co.

3s. 6d.)-This bilingual book is fully illustrated from

photographs. Here we can see the architecture, statues, pictures, and gardens of what might be called the inner shrine of peri- wiggery, with all its magnificence-and all its absurdity.