The queen has herself written plays under the pseudonym "Graham Irving," and the king paints a little in aquarelles, and plays the piano almost too well to be termed an amateur.

"Are you so taken up with the copying of those flowers that you can't speak?" This was another of the labors which he often intrusted to herto make drawings, aquarelles, and pastels, which he afterward used in his works as plates.

Then again there is the incident in Naples, which Tischbein has immortalised in one of his aquarelles.

He makes no attempt at the rich colouring of Kingsley or Blackmore, but, as page after page of Ryecroft testifies twelve years later, he is a perfect master of the aquarelle.

Dessins et aquarelles par H. Morin.

Dessins et aquarelles par H. Morin.