Then, again, many a day of pure delight may be enjoyed by forming a little party of girl-student friends to go down the Seine in one of the delightful river steamboats. For a few pence one can travel by water to St. Cloud, where the delightful and beautifully kept gardens of the old palace still remain to form a national pleasure ground.

Another delightful day's excursion is to the Palace of Versailles, with its marvellous collection of pictures, or to Petit Trianon, which is close beside it. Here one can reconstruct a vision of Marie Antoinette in her happy youthful days, when she and her maids-of-honour played at being dairymaids or making hay with light-hearted abandon.

The markets of Paris, too, are a joy, and household shopping becomes a pleasure, for the market-woman dehghts in bargaining with the English "mademoiselle." With much gesticulation, she will sell a handful of cherries and a dozen strawberries for a few pence - to provide a varied dessert "just for one ! "

This series dealing with Art Schools will be continued in Part 2 of Every Woman's EncyclopÆdia