A FAMOUS NECKLACE.                     261 tion ago her memory was again loaded with the crime by M. Louis Blanc. Marie Antoinette has had every possible and impossible crime cast upon her by writers who sought in her person to degrade the idea of a monarchy, but slowly history is removing this dirt from the garment of her reputation. She was silly and headstrong in her youth and did harm by her thoughtless-ness, but she was neither so silly nor so head­strong as many of the queens, her predecessors, nor did she do one tithe of the mischief that some of them attempted. She chanced, how­ever, upon troublous times, and therefore every­thing she did was reckoned a crime, as also many things which she did not do, such as the stealing of the Diamond Necklace.