For the first time I took part in the jollities of the carnival, and at the end of the first day again came across Bernardo, who insisted upon taking me to the opera to hear a new prima donna who had turned everybody's heart at Naples.

To the people who would like to go to Vauxhall in fine weather, second-rate Italian singing and broken down English prima donnas are no inducement, a bad ballet in a booth has no attraction, and an attempt at variety mars the whole affair.

It is difficult to connect this vaporous incorporeal "donna" of the poems with those brawny colossal adult females of the statues, unless we suppose that Michelangelo remained callous both to the physical attractions and the emotional distinction of woman as she actually is.

" "That only makes me all the more frantic to get back," exclaimed the prima donna.

The only word I felt inclined to question, is donne in line 13, where I should have expected donna.

We have already noticed it in the case of Tasso's 'Or, non sai tu com' è fatta la donna?' and of the words in which Corisca describes her changes of lovers, to say nothing of its appearance at the close of the Orfeo.

mon Artésien Clays Davion, qui me donna, pour Vienne en Autriche, une lettre de recommendation adressée à un marchand de sa connoissance.

How should I hear?" asked the prima donna.

Us two paddling up like a couple of Venetian gondoliers to serenade a celebrated prima donna in her fright ...