A less innocent novelty was a passion for horse-racing, in which the Comte d'Artois and the Duc de Chartres set the example of indulging, establishing a racecourse in the Bois de Boulogne.

No one cared much about it for the first two or three days; the sleighing was good, and all the world was out trying their horses on Main streetthe racecourse of the world.

His voice was alternately hard and unctuous; and he regarded theaters, ballrooms, and racecourses as the vestibule of that brimstone lake of whose geography he was as positive as of his great banking offices in the City.

Natives in gaudy coloured shawls, and blankets, are pouring on to the racecourse by hundreds.

That is the top-coat and the hat he used to be wearing and he riding his long-tailed pony to every racecourse from this to the Curragh of Kildare.

LONGCHAMP, a racecourse on the W. side of the Bois du Boulogne, Paris.