Such apparitions are always and everywhere rare.

The women of Poland are generally distinguished by an originality full of fire.

Parisians in their grace and culture, Eastern dancing girls in their languid fire, they have perhaps preserved among them, handed down from mother to daughter, the secret of the burning love potions possessed in the seraglios.

Their charms possess the strange spell of Asiatic languor.

With the flames of spiritual and intellectual Houris in their lustrous eyes, we find the luxurious indolence of the Sultana.