The same difference exists between it and that of other actresses, as between a highly finished portrait and a glaringly coloured transparency.

The feminine, the graceful, and the natural, are never lost sight of for a moment.
The French are admirable critics of acting, and are keenly alive to the beauties of a chaste and finished style, like that of Mademoiselle Mars.

In Paris there is no playing to the galleries, and for a simple reason:--the occupants of the galleries here are as fastidious as those of the boxes, and any thing like outraging nature would be censured by them: whereas, in other countries, the broad and the exaggerated almost invariably find favour with the gods.
The same pure and refined taste that characterises the acting of Mademoiselle Mars presides also over her toilette, which is always appropriate and becoming.
Accustomed to the agreeable mixture of literary men in London society, I observe, with regret, their absence in that of Paris.

I have repeatedly questioned people why this is, but have never been able to obtain a satisfactory answer.

It tells much against the good taste of those who can give the tone to society here, that literary men should be left out of it; and if the latter _will_ not mingle with the aristocratic circles they are to blame, for the union of both is advantageous to the interests of each.
Parisian society is very exclusive, and is divided into small coteries, into which a stranger finds it difficult to become initiated.