Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
After /the brilliant success which attended, in the spring of last year, our volume on/ The Fan--/a success which was the result, as I cannot conceal from myself, much more of the original conception and decorative execution of that work of luxe than of its literary interest--...
With the Egyptians, the hand was a symbol of force; with the Romans, a symbol of fidelity. We please ourselves in clothing the occult powers, such as Time, Nature, Destiny, with...
2. Part 2"After the /Thong-ya/, it is only under the first Wei (A.D. 220-264) that gentlemen began the use of Parasols; these Parasols were most frequently made of little rods of bamboo...
5. Part 5The good old man, kindled by his enthusiasm, became transformed; he seemed desirous to take upon himself the whole history of the Glove, which he embroidered at once with fancy...
4. Part 4Anglomania had not yet penetrated, as in the present day, into French manners; and the dandyism of 1830, which pretended that the carrying of a walking-stick required a particul...
7. Part 7A fur worn in winter, in which to put the hands, to keep them warm. /Muffs/ were formerly only for women: at the present day they are carried by men. The finest /Muffs/ are made...
1. Part 1After /the brilliant success which attended, in the spring of last year, our volume on/ The Fan--/a success which was the result, as I cannot conceal from myself, much more of t...
3. Part 3The definition of Richelet is almost the same. He adds, however, these words: "Only women carry Parasols, and they only in spring, summer, and autumn." Richelet, it is true, bor...
8. Part 8We see sometimes appearing certain light little works connected either with literary history or ancient poetry, or manners and customs, which would be nothing but pretty and cur...