Uniting to the most remarkable personal beauty an intelligence and docility as rare as they are delightful; and never did I witness any thing like the unceasing care and attention bestowed on their education by their parents.
Those who only know the Duc and Duchesse in the gay circles, in which they are universally esteemed among the brightest ornaments, can form little idea of them in the privacy of their domestic one--emulating each other in their devotion to their children, and giving only the most judicious proofs of their attachment to them.

No wonder that the worthy Duc de Gramont doats on his grandchildren, and never seems so happy as with his excellent son and daughter-in-law.
Went to the Vaudeville Theatre last evening, to see the new piece by Scribe, so much talked of, entitled _Avant_, _Pendant, et Apres_.

There is a fearful _vraisemblance_ in some of the scenes with all that one has read or pictured to oneself, as daily occurring during the terrible days of the Revolution; and the tendency of the production is not, in my opinion, calculated to produce salutary effects.

I only wonder it is permitted to be acted.
The piece is divided, as the title announces, into three different epochs.

The first represents the frivolity and vices attributed to the days of _l'ancien regime_, and the _tableau des moeurs_, which is vividly coloured, leaves no favourable impression in the minds of the audience of that _noblesse_ whose sufferings subsequently expiated the errors said to have accelerated, if not to have produced, the Revolution.
Nothing is omitted that could cast odium on them, as a preparation for the Reign of Terror that follows.