The prisoners, too, had adorned with varicoloured paperwork the candelabra, girandoles and mirrors which drew twinkles from the long waxed floor, and softened whatever might have been garish in the decorations.

Outside it was so garish with its coloured marbles, under the southern sky; outside, too, one's ears were filled with all the shattering noises in which Florence is an adept; and then, one step, and behold nothing but vast and silent gloom.

Each of the former contains upwards of 400 pages, and the latter nearly that numberbeautifully printed in what we call a very inviting type, on excellent paper, of rich colour, and not too garish for the eye of the reader.