For representations of real life the children require dolls and the simplest of furniturea bed, which need only be a box, some means of carrying out the doll's washing, her personal requirements as well as her clothes; some little tea-things and pots and pans.

That will be sufficient measurement for a doll's shoe, for even if it should not fit exactly, she won't mind either being pinched a little or having to walk a little loose.

Here, again, A Doll's House may be cited as a model, though Ibsen, certainly, had no thought of the British dinner-hour in planning the play.

For exampleto cite a much disputed instanceis it plausible that Nora, in A Doll's House, should suddenly develop the mastery of dialectics with which she crushes Helmer in the final scene, and should desert her husband and children, slamming the door behind her?

'It is dreadfully small, of course,' she said, 'when one is accustomed to rooms: but it is rather amusing to be in a sort of doll's house, and on deck it is really very nice.'

"I know," she whispered breathlessly, "through my doll's dungeon.

Then, when she had decided on Italy or Southern France as a simile, far-off, sharp mountain peaks, a dark, grotesquely branching pine in filmy distance, and a doll's house with a red pointed roof, suggested a sketch on a Japanese fan.

One day she took a doll's cup.

" In other parts of Europe, from Faust, which opened the nineteenth century, onward through Les Miserables to The Doll's House and Resurrection, it was the same.

I never saw diamond eyes," answered the jailer; "but I've seen glass ones in a doll's head looking very bright.

When his little girl came down he asked her what she wanted, and she said, "I want a little doll's washstand, a little doll's carriage, a little doll's umbrella," and went on with a whole lot of things that would have taken his lifetime to supply.

He felt a touch at his elbow, and Cossar was holding a chair for hima queer fragment of doll's furniture amidst these piled immensities.

The doll's trunk murder.

Death in the doll's house, by Hannah Lees & Lawrence Bachman.

Death in the doll's house, by Hannah Lees & Lawrence P. Bachman.

Death in the doll's house, by Hannah Lees & Lawrence P. Bachman.

The doll's suite; three attractive teaching pieces for the ambitious child.

The doll's house.

The old doll's house.

Death in the doll's house.

The Doll's house.

The fronts of the houses have long disappeared, leaving the interiors exposed to view, like a doll's house.

"Oh, yes, indeed," said Celia; "I used to make all my doll's dresses myself.

You can see the bran running out of Fanny's doll's arm, or the cat putting her foot through Tom's new kite, without losing your equanimity; but their hearts feel the pang of hopeless sorrow, or foiled ambition, or bitter disappointment,and the emotion is the thing in question, not the event that caused it.

Then I set on fire your doll's house.