"PRINCESS LOUISE.-IS SHE PRETTY?"

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 92, 5 July 1879, Page 3

"PRINCESS LOUISE.-IS SHE PRETTY ?"

. '.To settle this question we [S. F. Bulletin) must call us witnesses the talented jSßfcrnalUts who met the famous people i'.iijt tlit; landing and subjected them to HBtect observation, and drew of them MB pictures with professional facility. First comes the correspondent of the New York Tribune, and we take leave to speak of him as i: 'odd had loan, with IP unappreciative eye and a habit of biting with a split stick. This fiend I"If the truth must he told, the Frillies may be the daughter of a Queen, lit she is not a handsome woman. She Its regular features that are good tough one by one, but taken together Bey mako her plain and unattractive. ler forehead is low, her hair darker ban her husband's, and her expression aughty rather than gentle mid winning. Ihe was dressed richly, but quite simply, n black Bilk and velvet, with a seal-skin Bcque and plain black hat; her car-rings rare emeralds, and below her neck was omo elegant lace." The Herald man is better composed .nil disposed, and writos with fine gold BUS: — " Any ono who supposes that the tfirys about Queen Victoria's ugly chilIren have the least grain of truth in b««a should huve been here to be startled if <ho beauty, united to modest grace fld quietude which the people of 1 [alias cheered today. A fart* and manner aore literally charming are seldom oined in the person of any lady whomoawT, and Princesses* who posses n scant wrtion of this one's loveliness arc moio ha:i rare."

The artist of the Sun draws with a pencil of light, as follows : "Tho photographer to whom Americans arc indebted far their notions of Lord Lome and the Princess must have beea I villain. The Princes, in a rich fur cloak, with an Astrakhan collar, and a satin bonnet trimmed with feathers and jet, looked decidedly pretty: and the Marquis, so far from being concave, was convex, and as he repeatedly in ascending the landing stairs, raised his OOCked hat, displayed a solid, well-shaped head, with a brown brow and a pair of pleasant and intelligent eyes thereunder."

Then as to evening dress, we have this satisfactory testimony through the Herald:-

" Her Royal Highness looked oven more attractive to-night than she did in her neat travelling dress in tho afternoon. She wore a rich white petticoat surmounted by a dress composed entirely of black velvet, handsomely trimmed with clair de lime jet. Her head-dress consisted of a diamond tiara, feathers, and veil, and her other ornaments were diamonds and pearls. Besides these, she wore the Victoria and Albert Crosses and the Star of India." And the World rolls around with this glowing tribute to what we must believe is true loveliness : " In the drawing-room the new Viceroy, the Princess Louise, and the Duke of Edinburgh stood on a raised platform, and as each person was announced he or she was presented by Major DeWinton. The side of the room facing the dais was tilled with officers of the stall' and the household, all in brilliant full uniform. The Marquis of Lorne wore his Windsor uniform of tho first-class, and stood in the place of honor on the right. The Princess, standing next him, wore a rich white ribbed silk petticoat, surmounted by a dress of black velvet, handsomely trimmed with clair de lune jet. She wore tor head-dress a diamond tiara and feathers, with n rich veil falling in graceful folds behind. Her ornaments were diamonds and pearls, and ou her breast were displayed the Order of Victoria and Albert and the Star of India. In the handsome street dress of the morning the Princess was beautiful. In the richer dress of the evening she was surpassingly lovely. Her beauty is of the style that endures. It is not made for youth only, but for a long lifetime. In receiving, the Marquis is hardly equal to his predecessor, the Earl of Dutierin. He had not his kind and easy smile, nor yet bis familiar style nn'd grace, but he evidently meant to do the popular thing and as evidently succeeded. The Prim-ess certainly did, for she smiled most omiablv on every one and fairly tooK the hearts of the people by storm."