CHAPTER XI.

T HE second of a series of entertainments at the house of the American Minister came off’ last evening, the assemblage comprising many distinguished person- ages, and the loveliest of our country-women, — Ameri- ca’s bouquet of beauty standing pre-eminent amidst politics, diplomacy, literature, science and the military. The spacious salons were thronged up to the limited hour of midnight when the music and the dance ceased. Nearly all the Americans who were presented at Court on the 8th inst., participated on the occasion, and among them were the handsome Mrs. Lippincott, of Philadel- phia, and her daughter, who is soon to form a matrimo- nial alliance with the Secretary of the United States Legation at Rome ; Mrs. Caldwell, of New York; Miss Paine, of Boston ; Miss Blood, of Tennessee ; General Quincy, of Boston ; Mr. C. H. McCormick, of Chicago, and Mr. Walsh, of Japan. The wife of the Tunisian Envoy was present, her oriental style of beauty and magnificent jewels commanding general admiration, also