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DEBRETT ADVERTISEMENTS. ^^i*^K20^efJ| f I* ,,. MADAME TUSSAUO & SONS' EXHIBITION. "Most evergreen of Institutions." Fide GRAPHIC. ON VIEW UPWARDS OF 300 PORTRAIT MODELSof CELEBRITIES OF PAST AND PRESENT TIMES, INCLUDING His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia, Sir Samuel Baker, H. Ward Beecher, Dr. Livingstone, H. M. Stanley, the Czar of all the Russias, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, and the Princess Louise and Marquis of Lome. THE HALL OF KINGS, Containing Portrait Models of the Kings and Queens, from the time of "William the Conqueror to the present reign, is admitted to be one of the finest collections in the Exhibition. THE NAPOLEON ROOM, With its relics of the first Empire and of the Franco-Prussian War, including the Dial of the Church Clock of the Cathedral of Bazeilles and a portion of the Column of the Place Vendome, is worthy of special notice. " Established over a century, this exhibition has gained a reputation for the correctness of its Portrait Models, and its artistic arrangement in the grouping together of figures that no other ' Waxwork ' Exhibition ever attained in the known world. The historical characters, their dresses, so true to the period in which thej figured, are in themselves studios for the first modistes, either on this or the other side of the Atlantic. Tie collection is in itself both rechercht, and interesting inasmuch as it gives to the visitor, be he a native or foreigner, a true idea of what can be produced and perpetuated in wax." Fide PRESS.