y,' replied the Emperor, turning round once more
before the looking-glass.
"So the Emperor walked on, under the high canopy, through the
streets of the metropolis, and all the people in the streets and at
the windows cried out, 'Oh, how beautiful the Emperor's new dress
is!' In short there was nobody but wished to cheat himself into the
belief that he saw the Emperor's new clothes.
"'But he has nothing on!' said a little child.'
"And then all the people cried out, 'He has nothing on!'
"But the Emperor and the courtiers--they retained their seeming
faith, and walked on with great dignity to the close of the
procession."
FOOTNOTES:
[1] _The Improvisatore; or, Life in Italy_, from the Danish of HANS
CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. Translated by MARY HOWITT.
_Only a Fiddler!_ and _O.T. or, Life in Denmark_, by the Author of _The
Improvisatore_. Translated by MARY HOWITT.
_A True Story of my Life_, by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. Translated by
MARY HOWITT.
_Tales from Denmark_. Translated by CHARLES BONAR.
_A Picture-Book without Pictures_. Translated by META TAYLOR.
_The Shoes of Fortune, and other Tales_.
_A Poet's Bazaar_. Translated by CHARLES BECKWITH, Esq.
[2] See Allan Cunningham's _Lives of the Painters and Sculptors_, vol.
ii. p. 150.
[3] Not very clearly expressed by the translator. One would think that
our Saviour, in his progress to the cross, had passed through the area
of the Coliseum, and not that each of the pictures on these altars
represented one of the resting-points, &c. Mrs Howitt is sometimes hasty
and careless in her writing. And why does she employ such expressions as
these:--"many white buttons," "beside of it," "beside of us?" We have
read _a many_ English books, but never met them in anyone beside of
this.
[4] Vol. x, Nov. 1821, p. 373.
THE VISION OF CAGLIOSTRO.
"In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to
hold men, fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were
affrighted; and when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my
flesh stood up."--_The Book of Job._
The last, and perhaps the most renowned of the Rosicrucians, was,
according to a historical insinuation, implicated in that notorious
juggle of the Diamond Necklace, which tended so much to increase the
popular hatred towards the evil-doomed and beautiful Marie Antoinette.
Whether this imputation were co
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